NSBNEWS.net: Volusia County / State

TALLAHASSEE -- Florida has 58 confirmed cases in the following counties: one in Osceola, Alachua, Indian River, Marion, Clay, Collier, Lake, Manatee, Flagler, Seminole, Okeechobee, and Duval, two in Orange, Brevard and Sarasota, 3 in Pinellas, 7 in Lee, 8 in Hillsborough, and 11 in Dade and Broward each.

New confirmed cases:

* Broward: a 14 year-old female
* Dade: a 10 year-old female

There are three probables in the following counties:

* Palm Beach has 1 and Okaloosa has 2.

TALLAHASSEE -- Florida Agriculture and Consumer Services Commissioner Charles H. Bronson will hold a media availability at 11:30 a.m. Thursday, May 14, at the Incident Command Post for the Central Florida wildfires, located at the Little Big Econ State Forest office, 1350 Snowhill Road, Geneva.

Prior to meeting with reporters, the Commissioner will view the wildfires from a Division of Forestry helicopter and will meet with fire and emergency personnel on the ground.

OSTEEN -- A little bit of rain late Monday afternoon was welcomed by fire crewsworking the 3,000-acre fire threatening the Lake Harney Woodssubdivision in southern Volusia County, Volusia County officials said.

Division of Forestry crews worked through the night to plow lines around the growing fire. The fire extends from State Road 46 (to the south east of Lake Harney Woods subdivision), has run through the east end of the subdivision (heading northwest), and extends to Lake Harney Road off of Maytown-Osteen Road in Volusia County.

DELAND -- All four Florida Department of Health laboratories have received testing supplies from the Centers for Disease Control and now can test samples to confirm H1N1 Swine Flu. This testing capability allows the state to expedite results because it no longer need to send probable cases to CDC laboratories.

Florida has 23 confirmed cases in the following counties: one in Alachua, Clay, Indian River, Okechobee, Orange, Seminole, and Pinellas; two in Dade, three in Lee , five in Broward, and six in Hillsborough.

ORMOND BEACH -- An Ormond Beach mother was arrested earlier today on a warrant charging her with aggravated manslaughter in the drowning of her baby boy last month, A Volusia County Sheriff's spokesman said.

The Sheriff's Office's investigation of the April 6 death of 4-month-old Trenton Giachette inside his family's home near Ormond Beach resulted in an arrest warrant being issued toay. The mother, 30-year-old Christal Giachetti, was picked up in New York early this evening and is being held on $150,000 bond.

Booking mug/courtesy photo. Peter L. Berry, 19, has been expelled from Bethune-Cookman University after a felony gun posession charge on campus.

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DELAND -- Florida has five confirmed cases of Influenza A (H1N1) in the following counties: two in Lee, one in Broward, one in Orange , and one in Pinellas, according to Volusia County health officials.

Alachua, Lee, Indian River, Okeechobee, Palm Beach, Seminole, and Clay have one probable case each. Miami Dade and Broward each has three. Hillsborough County has six probable cases.

ORANGE CITY -- The Volusia County Sheriff’s Office has detained two suspects in an attack near Orange City early this morning.

Deputies are still investigating in an effort to determine what prompted the confrontation resulting in the beating of 28-year-old Aaron Wells, who was
airlifted by Sheriff’s Office helicopter to Halifax Health Medical Center in Daytona Beach with what originally were thought to be stab wounds.

However, doctors at the hospital found no sign of stab wounds. The victim, though, was beaten by his attackers and was treated and then released from the hospital.

ORMOND BEACH -- A 56-year-old man was killed earlier tonight after being struck by a freight train in Ormond Beach, possibly the result of a suicide, the Volusia Sheriff's Office said.

The Sheriff's Office is investigating the possibility that the death was a suicide, agency spokesman Gary Davidson said. The victim's name isn't being released until family members are notified of the death.

ORMOND BEACH -- The Volusia County Sheriff’s Office is issuing a scam alert to the public after a 74-year-old Ormond Beach woman nearly got conned earlier this week out of close to $7,000, the Volusia Sheriff's Office said.

At least four similar fraud attempts have been reported this week in East Volusia, and officials want to get the word out about the scam to prevent residents from becoming victims. No money was taken in the four incidents from this week.