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Holly A. Haeger, 59, of Edgewater, a legal secretary, died Tuesday, July 30, 2009.

PIERSON -- A 34-year-old Pierson man is the third victim this week of a rattlesnake bite, authorities said.

The unidentified man was flown to Halifax Medical Center on Tuesday after he was bitten in the the lower left calf.

The victim went to Volusia County Fire Services Station 44 in Pierson at 9:36 a.m., according to Volusia County Fire Services spokeswoman Pat Kuehn said.

"He said he had been bitten by a diamondback rattler," Kuehn said, adding after he was tended to by paramedics there, he was airlifted to Halifax and reported in stable condition.

July 2, 2009: William W. Duke and Alicia M. Kaminski, of New Smyrna Beach.

DAYTONA BEACH -- Sharon Hanson has waited seven long years for her mother's accused killer to stand trial, and thanks to a circuit judge's ruling Wednesday that the accused is now competent to stand trial, that could happen as early as next month.

"Our loved one is gone, yet we have no closure to this senseless crime," Hanson wrote to Judge J. David Walsh regarding the Feb. 6, 2002, shooting death of her 75-year-old mother, Rose Crank.

Courtesy photo/Booking mug Volusia Branch Jail. George Fred Heise, 77, of New Smyrna Beach, a member of the Kiwanis Club of Southeast Volusia and a former member of the New Smyrna Beach Utilities Commission was arrested last night on charges of prowling and peeking through a neighbor's bushes to look at her in her nightgown, according to a New Smyrna Beach police report.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- A prominent 77-year-old New Smyrna Beach man was arrested last night on charges of prowling, including allegations he hid in bushes and watched a woman dressed in her nightgown in her home, before he was caught by police after trying to run off when they responded.

George Fred Heise, of 105 Cunningham Drive, a member of the Kiwanis Club of Southeast Volusia and a former member of the Utlilities Commission of New Smyrna Beach, was charged with loitering and prowling, as well as resisting an officer without violence, in the 10:04 p.m. incident at the house next door to his.

The following was written by Robert Lott, president of the Southeast Volusia Chamber of Commerce.

Thursday night (June 25), I tuned in to get my nightly news fix. All major networks, including cable news stations (ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, FOX News,etc.) were providing nothing but celebrity death coverage (Michael Jackson)!

Non-stop, repetitive, no-news speculation. I went online to BBC to find out what happened in the world that day.

DELAND -- The Volusia County Sheriff's Office was on scene at 110 Tangerine Ave., DeLand,
investigating a homicide Thursday night.

The victim is an adult male, but no further identification is being released at this time, said Sheriff's spokesman Brandon Haught.

A possible suspect was in custody and being interviewed by investigators, Hsught said, adding the Sheriff's Office was notified of the incident at 8:20 p.m.

Courtesy photos/Volusia Jail booking mugs. Roy Deion Fudge Jr., 20, was arrested Thursday by Daytona Beach police on outstanding warrants out of New Smyrna Beach charging him with attempted murder in the shooting of a New Smyrna Beach man in May.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- A 20-year-old New Smyrna Beach man was apprehended Thursday by Daytona Beach police and taken into custody without incident on outstanding warrants charging him with attempted murder in the shooting of a city resident in mid-May.

July 3, 2009: Jerome L. C. Rucquoy and Michelle P. Schmotzer, New Smyrna Beach.

Laurel Artis Shaffer, 56, of New Smyrna Beach, a clinical researcher for the pharmaceutical industry, died Thursday, July 2, 2009.

Ambers Crum, no age given, of New Smyrna Beach, who served in the U.S. Army during World War II and is survived by his wife of 62 years, Ada, died Wednesday, July 1, 2009.

William Hall J., 53, of Edgewater, a native of San Antonio, died Monday, July 31, 2009.