Volusia News Now

Daytona Beach police have issued a BOLO (be on the lookout) for a man who robbed the Sunoco gas station, 2501 W. International Speedway Boulevard on Monday afternoon.

DAYTONA BEACH -- Perhaps the winning lottery ticket was not a big enough score for a man who reached into the cash register after the cashier opened the drawer and scooped up the cash before running off just before 4 p.m. Monday from the Sunoco, 2501 W. International Speedway Boulevard, Daytona Beach cops said.

Though there was a brief struggle after the man leaned over the counter and snatched a wad of cash, but the cashier was not hurt. Cops don't know how much cash he got away with.

DAYTONA BEACH -- The News-Journal and its sister papers are following the lead of The New York Times in charging readers to access its online content as print media struggles to find a happy medium with keeping its broadsheet advertising in place while losing readers in droves to the Internet.

Ironically, The Times unloaded its Florida papers in a fire sale to the News-Journal's parent company, Halifax Media, earlier this year.

DELAND, Fla. -- Al Williams, chairman of the School Board of Volusia County, died this morning at Halifax Medical Center in Daytona Beach surrounded by family and friends. He was 70 years old.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. -- A 42-year-old  man was arrested on drug charges Friday after he was stopped in the 300 block of the North Causeway and a meth lab was found in the back seat of his vehicle, New Smyrna Beach cops said.

The Volusia County Sheriff's Dive Team recovers the submerged vehicle with the body of Rose Bruce in it, from a retention pond near her Ormond Beach residence as shown here, first with the initial discovery at far left and with the removal of the vehicle in the inset photo.

ORMOND BEACH -- It was a freak accident that led to the tragic death of 79-year-old Rose Bruce, the Walmart employee missing since Monday night for nearly three days before a team of divers found her body in the back seat of her car in a 9-foot-deep retention pond across from her residence.

Photo for Headline Surfer by Barbara Senti Mudge / A heron takes flight from this balcony on a sunny Friday at Venetian Bay in New Smyrna Beach.

DELAND -- Howard Bailey, a 20-year veteran of Volusia County Fire Services, has been promoted to deputy fire chief.

Bailey started his career with Volusia County Fire Services as a firefighter/emergency medical technician in 1992 and was promoted to division chief in 2004. He has a master's degree in public

ORLANDO -- The paving project on westbound Interstate 4, on the south side of Orlando, continues and lane closures are in store Sunday night into Monday morning, as crews put detection loops into the pavement.

The Roundtable videos are produced by Headline Surfer Multimedia Editor Serafina Frederick

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