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Thanksgiving 2011: Thankful to help serve Oak Hill

Linda C. HyattBy Linda C. Hyatt

Oak Hill Vice Mayor
This guest blog is written exclusively for NSBNews.net
 

OAK HILL -- On this Thanksgiving holiday and every day for that matter, I am thankful to be a five-year survivor of breast cancer. Because of my good health and good friends, I am thankful that I can help out my city of Oak Hill in some small way as vice mayor.

Holly Hill cops: New Smyrna Beach man, who was a priest, arrested in gay sex sting

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HOLLY HILL, Fla. -- A 61-year-old former pastor and retired Catholic priest who lives in New Smyrna Beach, is among a group of men rounded up in a sting alleging gay sex in a restroom at Ross Point Park in Holly, police said.

Embry-Riddle's aerospace program ranked best in nation

Courtesy photo / Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University students work on a robotics project as shown here. ERAU has reached some new milestones nationwide. 

DAYTONA BEACH -- The 2012 Best Colleges guidebook published by U.S. News & World Report has ranked Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s (ERAU) undergraduate aerospace engineering program tops in the nation for the 12th year in a row.

The guidebook, which hit newsstands in September, ranks 1,400 accredited four-year schools nationwide.

Deltona man wanted in stabbings of parents captured

Thomas FeyCourtesy photo / Thomas Fey, wanted on two counts of attempted murder in the Sunday stabbings of his parents in the Deltona home they shared, has been apprehended.

DELTONA -- Thomas Fey, the 28-year-old Deltona man wanted on a warrant accusing him of stabbing his parents over the weekend, was apprehended tonight in Hernando County after a chase through four counties, A Volusia County Sheriff's spokesman confirmed.

Orange, Lake, Sumter and Hernando Counties by deputies after he reports earlier in the day had him seen in several Central Florida communities.

"The suspect was captured this evening and has been taken into custody in Hernando County," Gary Davidson, spokesman for Volusia County Sheriff Ben Johnson, told NSBNews.net.

"Thomas Fey's vehicle was first spotted in Orange County by an Oakland Police Officer. Fey sped from the scene, west into Lake County, where Lake County Sheriff's deputies joined in the pursuit.

NSB Holiday Charity Ball raises upwards of $48,000

NSBNews.net photos and video by Henry Frederick / Several hundred of New Smyrna Beach's well-to-do had fun Saturday night at the Brannon Center during the Holiday Charity Ball. At far left are City Commissioner Jack Grasty with event organizer Kaye Walker. NSB resident Susie Bruner is all smiles in the second photo. And in the video, Walker speaks about the event's success with upwards of $48,000 raised.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Susie Bruner put into perspective the true meaning of the 15th annual New Smyrna Beach Holiday Charity Ball.

Volusia County Sheriff's deputies looking for Deltona man named as suspect in stabbings of his parents

Thomas FeyCourtesy photo / Sheriff's deputies are looking for Thomas Fey, shown in an updated photo, whom they have named as the suspect in the stabbings of his parents Sunday in the Deltona home they share. If you see him, please call 9-1-1 and report his immediate whereabouts.

DELTONA -- Volusia County Sheriff's deputies are continuing to search for 28-year-old Thomas Fey, whom they have named as a suspect in the 5 p.m. Sunday stabbings of his parents in the Deltona home they all shared at 3215 Hyder Ave.

The father, Thomas Fey, 60, and the mother, Theresa Fey, 54, were listed early this morning in stable condition at Halifax Medical Center in Daytona Beach, where each was admitted for multiple stab wounds. Sheriff's officials did not go into greater detail on the stab wounds except to say the father underwent emergency surgery.

Volusia County Sheriff's Office: Deputies looking for man suspected of stabbing Deltona man and woman

Thomas FeyCourtesy photo / Thomas Fey of Deltona, shown in this photo, is wanted by law enforcement in connection with a double stabbing earlier tonight. If you see him, please call 9-1-1.

DELTONA -- The Volusia County Sheriff's Office is on the scene of a stabbing incident in the 3100-block of Hyder Ave, involving two victims known by the suspected attacker, 28-year-old Thomas Fey.

"Deputies were notified at approximately 5 p.m. that two adults, one man and one woman, had been stabbed multiple times by a person known to them," Sheriff's spokesman Brandon Haught told NSBNews.net.

Both victims, whose names were not released while the apprehension of their suspected attacker continues, were transported by Sheriff's Office helicopter to Halifax Health Medical Center in Daytona Beach.