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Photos and story submitted by contributing writer Dale Smith / Dr. Arlen Stauffer was chosen Tuesday night as New Smyrna Beach's nominee for countywide citizen of the year award. City Commissioner Jim Hathaway, shown in the smaller photo, ran the meeting in place of the mayor who was at a conference.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH - Dr. Arlen Stauffer, a physician and chairman of the NSB Balloon Fest, was chosen at tonight's City Commission meeting as New Smyrna Beach's nominee the Volusia Leaque of Cities' citizen of the year award.

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Courtesy photo by Dorothy Kirby / This photo as taken from inside motorist Dorothy Kirby's car of an overturned trailer on I-95 in New Smyrna Beach on Monday morning.

NEW SMYRNA -- A trailer towed by a pick-up truck overturned early Monday on Interstate 95, briefly blocking the southbound lanes and causing traffic to snarl for more than two miles, the Florida Highway Patrol said.

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Photo and story submitted by Dale Smith / Shawn Lane, president of Cudas Unhooked, right, receives a symbolic check for $3,000 from members of the Bouchelle Island Social Committee, from left, Sue Willard, Barbara Dees and Vicky Lillyforth.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Residents of Bouchelle Island have adopted Cudas Unhooked, a non-profit organization dedicated to helping at-risk students at New Smyrna Beach High School.

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NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- A man struck and killed by a Florida East Coast train Jan. 17 has been identified by New Smyrna Beach police as James Matthew McIntire, 49.

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Photos by Henry Frederick / Former New Smyrna Beach Mayor Jim Vandergrifft and his wife, Pamela, and their miniature poodle, Cooper, stroll down Canal Street towards the Intracoastal Waterway after Saturday's IMAGES: A Festival of the Arts. The festival makes its second and final run today. The event is free to the public where countless works of art are showcased and offered for sale. For more information, please go to http://www.imagesartfestival.org/  

NEW SMYRNA BEACH --Former Mayor Jim Vandergrifft and his wife, Pamela, were impressed by the array of art exhibits and the large crowd during Saturday's opening of the 2011 IMAGES: A Festical of the Arts, on historic Canal Street and Riverside Drive near the beautiful Intracoastal Waterway.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- The fallout from the firing of Steve Dennis as executive director of the Southeast Chamber of Commerce continues five months later. A prominent businesswoman has quit the organization in support of Dennis while critics continue to question how Dennis can remain with the CRA despite the fact he no longer works, owns a business or even lives in the district.

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Courtesy photo / The woman gunned down Tuesday night in greater New Smyrna Beach has been identified as Debra Gibson.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- A name and a face have been affixed to a woman shot and killed Tuesday night in a quiet neighborhood in the Westside just outside the city limits. The victim has been identified as Debra Gibson, 46 of New Smyrna Beach.

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NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- A 20-year-old woman was found dead this morning at the White Bird Mobile Home Park on North Dixie Freeway, but foul play is not suspected, New Smyrna Beach police said.

She was identified as Halie M. Herndon.

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NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- An autopsy performed this morning confirmed as expected that the woman shot and killed Tuesday night in front of a home at the intersection of Oak and Washington streets died as a result of multiple gunshot wounds and the medical examiner has ruled her death a homicide, a Volusia County Sheriff's spokesman said.

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 NSBNEWS.net video by Sera Frederick / Volusia County Sheriff's investigators work the scene of a  Tuesday night multiple-gunshot slaying of a woman outside an Oak Street residence at the intersection with Washington Street, just west of the New Smyrna Beach city limits. Watch our exclusive 1 a.m. video report from the scene.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- The unmistakable sound of gunshots where a woman lay dead outside an Oak Street home near the intersection with Washington was so loud just before 9:45 p.m. Tuesday., it woke up small children and elderly folks in this quiet enclave just west of the city limits.