NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- In the midst of dinner-time customers, a white man man with a scruffy beard armed with a knife hopped over the counter at the McDonald's restaurant on State Road 44 and grabbed a wad of cash from a register before running outside and taking off in a grey or silver vehicle, New Smyrna Beach police said.
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Courtesy photo. Retired law enforcement officer Kenneth Smith, working as a private security guard at the Medicine Shoppe on North Dixie Freeway, was justified in the fatal shooting of armed robber Keith Allen Higginbotham, shown here..
DELTONA -- A lrobber held up the Wachovia Bank on Deltona Boulevard in Deltona Monday morning, the Volusia County Sheriff's Office reported.
No one was injured in the robbery, which occurred shortly after 11 a.m.
Courtesy photo/Volusia County Sheriff's Office. Keith Allen Higginbotham, 29, of Edgewater, was the would-be robber shot to death Saturday inside the Medicine Shoppe pharmacy by a plainclothes security guard.
DAYTONA BEACH -- Speed Weeks will bring heavy traffic to Volusia County in February and Votran riders
should expect numerous delays, interruptions and route deviations, said Michelle Coats, Volusia County spokeswoman.
Schedule delays will begin Thursday and continue through the Daytona 500 on Sunday.
Detours are subject to change without notice and buses will be rerouted to secondary roads when traffic becomes congested.
DELTONA -- A would-be robber was hauled off to jail on Saturday by Volusia County Sheriff's deputies after a clerk at the Deltona Chevron on Deltona
Boulevard called the criminal's bluff, agency spokesman Gary Davidson reported.
NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Whether you’re trying to navigate the Internet or still looking for the computer’s on/off switch, the New Smyrna Beach Regional Library has beginner computer classes that can help you find your way, said Pat Kuehn, Volusia County spokeswoman.
A Computer Basics class will begin at 10 a.m. Wednesday, March 4. This class is for people with little or no computer experience who want to
learn about the components of a computer and get acquainted with terminology. Participants will explore some of the functions and features of the Windows operating system.
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NSBNEWS.net photos by Henry Frederick. Mark McConnell, a supervisor with Aftermath Inc., oversees a clean-up crew Sunday charged with sanitizing the bloody scene left by Saturday's fatal shooting of an armed robber at the Medicine Shoppe on North Dixie Freeway in New Smyrna Beach.
