Volusia News Now

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Wendell and Anita Bradford, like millions of Americans, are praying ask for prayers for all of the families, friends and first responders who suffer every day because of the 9/11 attack on our country 15 years ago today. Like millions of Americans across the country and countless people around the globe, they remember the all-too-real horror that came with with two hijacked airliners slamming into the Twin Towers of New York City's World Trade Center, a third airliner striking the Pentagon and a fourth crashing in a vacant field in Shanksville, Penn, by doomed passengers who stormed the cockpit to avert a likely strike on the White House or Capitol Building.

PIERSON, Fla. -- The Pierson Town Council meets twice monthly on the second and fourth Tuesdays, accortding to Town Clerk Carmen M. Spelorzi.

PORT ORANGE, Fla. -- With his Aug. 30 primary victory assured, Chase Tramont is eager to take his seat on the Port Orange City Council dais. 

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Volusia County School Board member John Hill has ignited yet another another firestorm of controversy by calculating thew total number of absences by teachers during the last school year. And on the surface, it's a whopper of a figure: 50,000 days.