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Dozens gather Friday at former NSB High School campus as demolition begins to make way for Mosquito Lagoon Enhancement Center

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Photos by Dale Smith / Ruby James of New Smyrna Beach and a member of the Artist’s Workshop, carries three bricks away from the former New Smyrna Beach High School campus on Quay Assisi , which is being demolished to make way for the  Mosquito Lagoon Enhancement Center. James took the bricks for her three children who graduated there.

This story was submitted by contributing writer Dale Smith

NEW SMYRNA BEACH – City resident, a long-time advocate and supporter of the Mosquito Lagoon Enhancement Center, cried as a big claw swiped at the side of a building on the camps of the former New Smyrna Beach High School, scattering bricks below.

Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission arrests two men on copper theft charges in Deltona

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Courtesy photos VCBJ / Brian Keith Fender, 26, of DeLand, and Thomas Joseph Reynolds, 27 of DeLeon Springs, face felony and misdemeanor charges in the theft of copper near Lake George.

DELTONA -- Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officers patrolling Lake George Wildlife Management Area on Friday night caught a pair of Volusia County men stealing copper wire from a utility pole.

NY Post videos now part of our multi-media platform, along with AP and NY Times

We have added videos from the New York Post to our wire video feeds in addition to those from the Associated Press and the New York Times. The Post replaces our feed for the Fox News Channel because of lingering technical glitches. The Post provides a conservative perspective while the Times leans to the left. The AP is somewhere in the middle. We hope to restore the Fox video feed at some point and may even add others.

Oak Hill City Commission rejects demand by Police Chief Diane Young to fire embattled police officer Mike Ihnken; with the top cop herself now on the ropes

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Photos by Henry Frederick and video by Sera Frederick / Suspended Oak Hill police officer Mike Ihnken refutes Police Chief Diane Young's administrative charges and demand to the City Commission that he be "terminated" for being derelict in his duties. The commission gives him the benefit of the doubt at Monday's packed meeting and questions whether Young is the problem. See our exclusive post-meeting video interview with the officer.

OAK HILL -- On a 3-2 vote, the City Commission led by Mayor Darla Lauer rejected Police Chief Diane Young's recommendation that embattled officer Michael Ihnken be fired.