NSBNews.net photo by Henry Frederick / Whether the Kmart here on State Road 44 is among the 100 to 120 stores targeted for closing by its parent company, Sears Holding Corp. remains to be seen. An announcement was made Tuesday that the store closings, both Kmart and Sears, are the result of lackluster Christmas sales among its 4,000 stores nationwide. NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- News today that as many as 120 K-Mart and Sears stores are going to be closed sent a shudder here where the Kmart on State Road has become a lifeline for nearby residents, especially with Walmart closing at the NSB Regional Shopping Center to make way for the Walmart super center further west near the I-95 interchange.
"I think it's sad," 63-year-old Katherine Zow told NSBNews.net as she was heading home a short distance away. "This is an affordable place to shop and we need it now more than ever because the Walmart moved."
ORLANDO -- In the waning minutes of the third quarter, J.J. Redick was apologetic to the referee for a foul that led to a technical, but it wasn't that big a deal. The Orlando Magic dispatched of the Houston Rockets at home tonight, 105-94.
Many of the sports world experts picked the Oklahoma City Thunder to win the West and the Miami Heat to win the East. With Oklahoma City dispatching of the Orlando Magic on Christmas, 97-89, it's easy to see why.
2011 will stand out as the year the big 3 were vanquished from the face of the earth. First came the U.S. capture and killing of Osama bin Laden on May 1 in a daring raid across the border from Afghanistan into Pakistan.
The raw power of Mother nature struck Japan's northeast coast in March with a 9.0-magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami. It left 20,000 people dead or missing and $218 billion in damages to infrastructure.
Daytona Beach's Vince Carter started at shooting guard for the Dallas Mavericks at home before a raucous Christmas crowd, scoring 5 points on the losing end as the Miami Heat gave a little payback to the defending NBA champs.
Lebron James scored 37 points for the Heat in the 105-94 win in a game that was lopsided in Miami's favor despite the final score.
PORT ORANGE -- Alcohol may have been a factor in a horrific Christmas eve crash on I-95 with an Oak Hill motorist veering into the passing lane and striking a Broward County family's car, killing one of its passengers after that car flipped over, the Florida Highway Patrol said.
Patsy Anne Phillips, 56, of Oak Hill, was southbound in the right lane near the Dunlawton Avenue exit at 5:25 p.m. Saturday when she crossed into the passing lane, striking the other vehicle and causing it to flip over before her own car struck a tree, the highway patrol reported. Phillips was transported to Halifax Health Center with critical injuries.
Alcohol may have been a factor in Phillips striking the other car and charges are pending the results of a homicide investigation, Florida Highway Patrol spoksewoman Sgt. Kim Montes said.
MIAMI -- A man's request to have his neighbor turn down loud music because his wife was asleep led to him being stabbed to death during the morning hours of Chrismas eve.
Phillip Arthur, 24, stabbed once in the chest at 9:30 a.m. in the 1300 block of Northwest 66th Street, died within minutes of his arrival at Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Unit from Liberty City, police said. Dorian W. Hinkson, 51, was taken into custody and the knife weas receovered.
For more details, please visit: http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/12/24/2560512/miami-man-stabbed-to-death-after.html.
COCOA -- A 44-year-old Cocoa man was struck and killed by a motorist while trying to cross U.S. 1 near Roundtree Drive on Saturday night, the Florida Highway Patrol said.
The Brevard County victim's identity was withheld while troopers were in the process of contacting his family with the tragic news on Christmas eve in the wake of the 7:50 p.m. accident.
The man was transported to Wuesthoff Rockledge Hospital where he was pronounced dead a short time later, highway patrol spokeswoman Sgt. Kim Montes said.
PORT ORANGE, Fla. -- A robber who implied he had a gun walked up to a teller on this busy Christmas eve shopping morning at the TD Bank, 1101 Dunlawton Ave., demanded money, and after getting it, walked right back out and drove off in a tan-colored 4-door car, Port Orange police said.
