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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- While the controversy surrounding housing for the chronically homeless appears to be going nowhere, the first major hurdle has been eclipsed with renewed hope for an entirely different type of homeless people altogether -- families with children -- with plans to convert the former Hurst Elementary School into a bonafide shelter.

And the leaders of this herculean effort are Volusia County Manager Jim Dinneen,  business entrepreneur Forough Hosseini of ICI Homes and Halifax Urban Ministries Executive Director Mark Geallis.

Fla. showdown looming against GOP frontrunner Donald Trump who calls Sunshine State second home

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 SANFORD, Fla. -- Just one day after making a campaign stop in Sanford, Marco Rubio, once the formidable establishment candidarte for the GOP seen as the strongest consertative Republican standard bearer for the Republican Party rto reclaim the presidency, laid a big goose egg in the Tuesday contests in advance of the upconming Florida primary.

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- So Republican Donald Trump won big in South Carolina. And Democrat Hillary Clinton did the same in Nevada. But we're not in Darlinton, SC. and what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, right Bernie Sanders?

HOLLY HILL, Fla. -- Children can enjoy group activities and field trips with Volusia County’s spring break camps, which are being offered in Holly Hill and DeBary from 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. March 21 through 25. Both camps will offer playground activities, field trips, movies, and arts and crafts. Advance registration and payment are required.

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- It was 15 years ago that NASCAR executive Mike Helton, a lumbering, but stoic man delivered the news in a hushed tone that made racing fans burst into tears around the world hours after a crash that at first seemed surviveable: "This is undoubtedly one of the toughest announcements that I’ve ever personally had to make, but after the accident in turn four at the end of the Daytona 500, we’ve lost Dale Earnhardt."      

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla -- Volusia County Sheriff Ben Johnson announced this morning his intention to retire when his current term expires the end of this year.

ORANGE CITY, Fla. -- Seeing is believing and in a show of solidarity, three of West Volusia's most prominent mayors stood with Congressional District 6 Republican candidate Adam Barringer at a press conference Monday outside the Dickinson Center in demonstrating their endorsement of the former New Smyrna Beach mayor and his quest to go to Washington as congressman: Tom Laputka of Orange City, Bob Apgar of DeLand and John Masiarczyk of Deltona.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. -- Attempts to save a 26-year-old Port Orange woman who lost control of her car and ended up submerged in a pond in the Venetian Bay community the afternoon of Oct. 27, 2014, proved fruitless. 

Sarah Marx was later identified in the day as the driver and drowning victim in the 11 a.m. tragedy.

It wasn't as if everyone was just standing around and doing nothing to try and save her.