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Drug dealer indicted on 1st-degree murder charge in gunshot slaying of New Smyrna Beach woman

NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. -- Debra Gibson was a street walker with a record of petty crimes. James Desmond Booth was a convicted drug dealer. When their paths met again on Jan. 25, 2011, she was shot dead.

Port Orange man goes on murderous rampage at RV park in Deerfield Beach in a double-murder suicide

William DeJesus
William DeJesus, 41, of 509 Newton Road, Port Orange drove his family down to Broward County in his red Ford Mustang where he shot and killed an elderly Candian tourist he didn't know before he holed up in the victim's RV and tried to wipe out his whole family by stabbing his wife and two sons, killing one of them and himself in the process.

PORT ORANGE -- The "why" is not always defined when it comes to a murderous rampage.

Sex on the beach involving minors real reason for ban on jail-bait lifeguards

Lifeguard on duty on New Smyrna BeachThe question we asked Volusia County officials after receiving a press release Friday morning announcing the minimum age of 17 for lifeguard tryouts on the World's Most Famous Beach was blunt: "Will the 17-year-olds be able to handle the really fat swimmers in trouble?" As expected, we got no response. Whether underage lifeguards in bikinis are strong enough to rescue obese people is not why the county is raising the age limit. The real reason? Jailbait sex.

No. 9: Florida A&M drum major a hazing homicide victim

Drum major Robert ChampionRobert Champion, a 26-year-old drum major with the Florida A&M University marching band, collapsed and died within an hour of a hazing incident the night of Nov. 19, during which he suffered multiple blunt trauma blows to his body a tragedy that not only made headlines, across the country. An autopsy by the the Orange County Medical Examiner's office determined the death of the Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University student a homicide.

Remembering Whitney Houston: 'Certain self destructiveness to those gifted with creativity'

The world is abuzz with speculation and assumptions as to the cause of death of Whitney Houston, found dead in a room at the Beverly Hilton Hotel at the age of 48, on the eve of the Grammy Awards. What I can say with certainty is that artists have it hard; that there is often a certain self destructiveness to those gifted with creativity is hardly a secret.