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Circuit Judge Robert K. Rouse ruled April 8 that telephone numbers listed on city-issued cell phones are public record, but certain numbers on phones issued to police that relate to their home numbers and confidential informants are exempt. The ruling stems from a lawsuit filed against the city last year by Bill of Rights, Inc., the umbrella corporation of the Shadow Web site operated by Nahum Litt, a retired federal judge, who routinely takes city officials to task in his weekly postings. NSBNEWS.net has obtained a copy of Rouse's ruling through a public records request, which is attached.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Phone calls made on city-issued phones are subject to public inspection, a circuit judge has ruled in a case brought against the city of New Smyrna Beach by Web site operator, the Shadow.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- The Coast Guard early this afternoon called off its search of a boat with two people aboard reported missing 15 miles from the New Smyrna Beach shore slightly less than 24 hours earlier.

NE SMYRNA BEACH -- The Coast Guard has been searching since 2 p.m. Saturday for two people missing in a boat that sent out a distress signal about 15 miles from the New Smyrna Beach shoreline.

NSBNEWS.net videos by Sera Frederick

The video to the left shows bird rescuer Marilyn Sullivan appealing to the city to put up signs informing people not to feed pelicans because it makes them more aggressive and dependent on humans for food. The video to the right captures pelicans along the Intracoastal Waterway in New Smyrna Beach just north of Riverside Park.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Bird rescuer Marilyn Sullivan appealed to the City Commission to put up signs alerting people not to feed pelicans.

NSBNEWS.net photos by Henry Frederick.

The former New Smyrna Beach High School complex has been an eyesore for a decade now, but that's about to change with big bucks coming from the county through an ECHO grant to make way for the Mosquito Lagoon Marine Enhancement Center.

NSBNEWS.net file photo of City Commissioner Jack Grasty.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- City Commissioner Jack Grasty was all smiles Friday and why not? The city received two ECHO grants from Volusia County: $600,000 for the Mosquito Lagoon Marine Enhancement Center at the former New Smyrna Beach High School, and $281,853 for the city's portion of the Cross Volusia Trail.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Police are on the lookout for a man with a handgun who tried to rob two people on North Myrtle Avenue just before 6:30 p.m. Wednesday.

Latrieka Chantel Hinson, 22, told police officer B. A. Morris that she and a friend were approached by a white man on North Myrtle near Ronnoc Lane, who displayed a handgun and demanded money from them.
Hinson told police she and her friend screamed out for help and the gunman ran off.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- It's "Children's Storytime" at Denny's restaurant on Tuesday.

Free food and a free book for children, 10 years and younger, are offered with the purchase of an adult meal at regular price. Storytime is from 5 to 7 p.m. at Denny's, 1830 State Road 44.

EDGEWATER -- A 51-year-old Melbourne woman was killed Thursday afternoon on Interstate 95 near Edgewater after she lost control of her 2001 Mazda sport utility vehicle into the median and struck a row of trees, the Florida Highway Patrol said.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- The motorist airlifted to Halifax Medical Center after striking another vehicle and overturning his Isuzu Rodeo several times before striking a tree on U.S. 1 Wednesday night, has been identified as 44-year-old David M. Weightman of New Smyrna Beach. He was listed Thursday night in stable condition.