NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- If you smelled smoke Wednesday around the dinner hour, it was from a 14-acre fire that was burning on Tomoka Farms Road just west of the city limits, fire officials said.
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The Volusia County Sheriff's Office brought out its big artillery, including a tank (shown above) to deal with a standoff with an angry husband who barricaded himself in his home after a fight with his wife, just outside the Edgewater City limits.
NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- A man armed with a handgun -- possibly a revolver -- robbed the Kangaroo Express, 2600 N. Dixie Freeway, at 9 p.m. Sunday and fled with an undetermined amount of cash, New Smyrna Beach police said. There were no injuries reported but the clerk "was pretty shaken up," police Sgt. Valerie Joyce said.
NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. -- Embattled Chief Planner Chad Lingenfelter learned his fate just before 5 p.m. Wednesday when he met briefly with Personnel Director Carol Hargy: His job, which paid a base salary of $69,160 annually, was eliminated due to a budget cut.
NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- So what did the city's top administrators know and when did they know it?
The line above is a reincarnation of sorts of the famous line uttered by Republican Senator Howard Baker that led to President Nixon's exit from the White House following Watergate: "What did the President know and when did he know it?"
NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- There's an adage in motorcycle riding that "it's not if, but when" you're going to crash. Well, the same came be said of surfers who challenge the sharks off the south for the primo waves.
Just ask 55-year-old Jimmy Johnston of New Smyrna Beach who has been surfing here since he was 10.
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Florida Highway Patrol troopers cordon off the area where a 4-year-old boy was struck and killed on the beach Sunday after darting in front of a Dodge Ram.
NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- A 4-year-old boy was struck and killed on the beach just after 3 this afternoon by a Dodge Ram pick-up truck fitted with large tires after darting in front of the driver who told authorities he never saw the child as the large front right tire ran over him in front of horrified beach-goers.
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DNA blood evidence links Daniel Myles Buczek to a burglary, already jailed on an unrelated charge, according to Edgewater police.
EDGEWATER -- Like a scene in the popular TV series "Criminal Minds," an Edgewater cop used DNA to match a suspect to a burglary that had gone unsolved for four months.
