NSBNEWS.net photo by Henry Frederick. The DIRECTV blimp that was utilized to help broadcast the Super Bowlfor NBC won by the Pittsburgh Steelers over the St. Louis Cardinals, was serviced days earlier at the New Smyrna Beach Municipal Airport.
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NSBNEWS.net video above by Sera King and photos below by Henry Frederick. An elderly man prished early this morning in a house fire that also claimed his dog on Cory Drive in Edgewater.
EDGEWATER -- The body of a man belived to be in his early 60s was found inside the back of a home just 
south of Edgewater that caught fire this morning, said Volusia County Sheriff's spokesman Gary Davidson.
Fire and law enforcement officials are on the scene investigating the blaze at 118 S. Cory Drive. The fire was called in by a neighbor at 7:49 a.m. Edgewater Fire Department units were first to arrive at the scene.
DAYTONA BEACH -- Law enforcement at all levels made their presence known on the streets of East Volusia on Tuesday during a coordinated street crimes operation that netted 11 arrests and 34 citations, Volusia Sheriff's spokesman Gary Davidson said.
More than 50 local, state and federal law enforcement agents along with probation officers and prosecutors all joined forces in a sweep of high crime areas in the
Nancy Lynn Stanovnik, 73, of Edgewater, who loved animals, died Thursday, Feb 5, 2009.
Germaine Marshakk, 96, of New Smyrna Beach, a homemaker, died Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2009.
Jane Ann Lund-Blaszkowski, 75, of New Smyrna Beach, a former member of the New Smyrna Yacht Club and Elks Lodge No. 1557, died Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2009.
It's still cold out here this morning, but the worst is behind us, so says the National Weather Service in Melbourne, with highs expected to reach 61 degrees. Tonight will drop to 48 and then it's supposed to warm up this weekend with highs in the upper 60s. Now that's more like the Sunshine State we've become accustomed to.
Thankfully, the local citrus crop was not damaged by the nasty wind-chill situations over the past couple of nights -- really for the latter half of this week.
NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Despite being repeatedly beaten with a sawed-off shotgun, a Sheldon Street resident refused to give up his money to a would-be robber who attacked him in his yard last night, police said.
The 39-year-old victim was struck several times in the arms and legs in the 8:40 p.m. robbery attempt, but refused to give up the money he received after cashing his Social Security check, police Detective Dan Kennedy said this morning.
EDGEWATER -- The man found dead inside a Cory Drive home home just south of Edgewater that caught fire Thursday has been identified as 61-year-old Michael McCool, Volusia County Sheriff's spokesman Brandon Haught reporte this afternoon.
The Volusia County Medical Examiner's Office confirmed the identity during an autopsy this morning.
The Medical Examiner has also preliminarily ruled that McCool died of smoke inhalation, but a final determination will not be made until toxicology tests are completed.
ORMOND BEACH A man robbed a Suntrust Bank near Ormond Beach this afternoon, the Volusia County Sheriff's Office reported.
The suspect did not display a weapon, but implied he had one," Sheriff's spokesman Brandon Haught reported. "No one was injured during the robbery. The Volusia County Sheriff's Office is investigating.
NSBNEWS.net photos by Henry Frederick. A masked robber was shot and killed just before 10:15 this morning by a security guard at the Medicine Shoppe, 653 N. Dixie Freeway.
NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- A masked robber was shot and killed this morning by a security guard just before 10:15 at the Medicine Shoppe, at 653 N. Dixie Freeway, after he stuck a gun in the face of the pharmacist and demanded drugs, New Smyrna Beach police confirmed.
"Dispatch received a 9-1-1 call of shots fired," police spokesman Sgt. Mike Brouillette said. "A white male wearing a mask pointed a gun at the pharmacist and demanded drugs."
