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Mark Cristopher Barringer shown in the the photo from a Volusia County Branch Jail booking mug was charged with drunken driving and DUI resulting in an accident with damage to personal property. 

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- For the second time in less than two years, Mark C. Barringer has been arrested on DUI charges that resulted in him crashing a motor vehicle, New Smyrna Beach police said.

Barringer, 25, was arrested 4:53 Monday after wrecking his car in the vicinity of 300 Flagler Ave., according to a police report by officer Joseph Hunchard. When Hunchard responded, he found the driver asleep at the wheel with his Nissan Frontier in the middle of Flagler Avenue with the engine running. 

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Voluteers are needed and you and your family can have some fun while being part of a oyster reef restoration project.

EDGEWATER, Fla -- Don't tell Myron Hammond of Edgewater Towing & Recovery that you can't fight city hall. He did and he won!

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- NSBNews.net welcomes Dairy Queen of New Smyrna Beach as our newest advertiser.

The ad will appear for one year, 24 hours a day, on the top right hand corner our home page (240 by 200 rotator) along with 600 "paste-in ads" that will appear on the bottom of our stories and blogs.

NSBNews.net is in the process of creating a Dairy Queen "web page" that you'll be able to access by clicking on the ad on the home page as well as  the ad on the stories and blogs. Dairy Queen has all that advertising for less than $2.75 a day for a whole year.

Dairy Queen has all that advertising for less than $2.75 a day for a whole year.

Although the print daily and weekly newspapers left, NSBNews.net operates right here in the heart of New Smyrna Beach. We need to work together to ride out this horrible economy and NSBNews.net can do that for you with affordable advertising that reaches far more customers than dying print media. 

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- NSBNews.net has renewed its annual membership with the Southeast Volusia Chamber of Commerce for a fourth year.

NSBNews.net provided SEV Chamber Director/Vice President Samantha Bishop with a $250 check Tuesday for the annual membership, which begins Oct. 1.

NSBnews.net's membership with the chamber has absolutely no impact on its news coverage, period.

NSBNews.net operates in New Smyrna Beach. It was launched April 7, 2008, as a 24/7 digital newspaper serving New Smyrna Beach, Edgewater and Oak Hill. In October, coverage was expanded to include all of Volusia County with a second URL label: VolusiaNews.net.

To date, NSBNews.net has amassed nearly 800,000 unique visitors and 1.3 million page views. It also has 2,500 e-mail subscribers and more than 9,100 friends/likes on Facebook. NSBNews.net's top stories and images are carried by Google News directories with unfettered and immediate placement on the world wide web.

NSBNews.net also has memberships with IRE (Investigative Reporters & Editors), the National Society of Professional Journalists, the North-Central Florida chapter Society of Professional Journalists and the Florida Press Club.