2nd Primary Debate Parts 3 & 4: Candidates answer questions from the audience (Exclusive videos)
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Police looking for juvenile who threw stick at school bus that injured 3 kids on board
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NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- A search is under way for a 15-year-old boy who allegedly threw a stick at a passing school bus heading north in the 800 block of South Myrtle Avenue this afternoon that injured three kids on board when a window was shattered, New Smyrna Beach police said,
The incident happened at 4 p.m. just north of the New Smyrna Beach Middle School by the boy, whose name was not released by police because of his age and believed to be a middle school student.
43 Daytona Beach News-Journal employees lose their jobs as newspaper continues looking for a buyer
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DAYTONA BEACH -- Forty-three employees of the Daytona Beach News-Journal lost their jobs earlier today, according to several sources.
Of the 43 cuts, 16 were in the newsroom and nine were unionized pressmen. The others were from various other departments.
Executive Editor Don Lindley informed the terminated employees in an e-mail and then left for the day at 4 p.m. without facing any of those whose jobs were cut, according to an inside source.
2nd Primary Debate Parts 5 & 6: Candidates grill each other on issues (exclusive videos)
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NSBNEWS.net video by Sera Frederick.
City's $9K fake Xmas tree erected at Riverside Park
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NSBNEWS.net video and photos by Sera Frederick. Between four and six city workers spent all day Tuesday putting up the $9,000 artificial Christmas tree purchased with tax dollars by the Community Redevelopment Agency at the eastern-most end of Canal Street just a couple feet from the riverbank. The tree went up less than a week after the City Commission voted unanimously to tentatively go with the rolled-back rate of $3.7 per $1,000 to finance the $21 million budget for the upcoming fiscal year, which meant no raises for city employees, the elimination of five open police officer positions and severe cutbacks in capital improvements. Yet the Community Redevelopment Agency was allowed to spend $9,000 this spring to purchase the artificial tree, which has become a lightning rod in this primary election about spending priorities.
NSB Xmas tree a safety issue
NSBNEWS.net photo by Sera Frederick. Your's truly stands near the newly erected $9,000 artificial Christmas tree looking across from the riverbank to Canal Street at 9 p.m. Tuesday, an unsecured spot where anyone had access at least through the early morning hours of Wednesday as of this blog posting.
Like many other New Smyrnans, I was immediately drawn to the newly erected $9,000 artificial Christmas tree, literally a couple feet from the riverbank facing Canal Street.
Oak Hill man dies in I-95 accident in Brevard County
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OAK HILL -- A 47-year-old motorist killed Tuesday in a car accident Tuesday on Interstate 95 in Brevard County was identified today by the Florida Highway Patrol as Oak Hill resident Artice Lee Smith
Daytona Beach mom runs to nearby business with baby boy in her arms to call 9-1-1 after she found him not breathing in his crib -- the baby died
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DAYTONA BEACH -- A mother ran to a nearby business to call 9-1-1 with her 9-month-old baby boy in her arms after she realized he wasn't breathing, Daytona Beach police said. The baby was pronounced dead at the scene by EVAC paramedics.
The mother, who lives in the vicinity of Mason Avenue and Edwards Street ran to the nearby Daytona Collision, 825 Edwards St., after checking on her sleeping baby and realizing he was not breathing, poilice said of the incident just before 3:30 p.m.