DAYTONA BEACH -- With $30 million invested, it was a sure bet the Kennel Club would welcome its new digs, courtesy of International Speedway Corp., which built it on adjacent property so it could take over the 60-plus year facilities' grounds next to Daytona International Speedway, which provides more parking and ground space immediately outside the grandstands for booths and other displays.
DAYTONA BEACH -- A 12-year-old boy's death was played out in the media in mid-December over a number of days because of conflicting medical diagnoses before the Volusia County Medical Examiner's Office finally ruled Cody Shrout died from drug-resistant staph infection methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, more commonly called MRSA,
an antibiotic-resistant disease that is contagious.
PONCE INLET -- A father and son fishing in the Atlantic Ocean were swept out to sea and survived overnight cold and potential shark attacks by floating, even as they were separated for most of the time before they were rescued from the rolling waves eight miles from shore in early September.
Walter Marino, 47, of Winter Park, and his 12-year-old son, Chris, got separated after the tide dragged them out while fishing in near waist-deep waters. Both were rescued -- first, the father, 12 hours later, then the son two hours after that.
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Courtesy photos. Democrat Suzanne Kosmas of New Smyrna Beach easily outpolled Congressman Tom Feeney for his seat in Washington on Election Day.
NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Democrat Suzanne Kosmas of New Smyrna Beach crushed Republican Congressman Tom Feeney on Election Day, garnering nearly 64 percent of the votes in against the three-term incumbent from Oviedo.
NSBNEWS.net photo by Henry Frederick. Oak Hill Mayor Mike Thompson and former Mayor Jeff Bracy got into an aurgument on primary night at City Hall that had them bumping bellies.
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mayor and a former mayor got into a verbal argument outside City Hall that led to them "bumping bellies" during primary-election night, according to eyewitnesses.
Courtesy photo. A Florida Highway Patrol trooper was being investigated in October on allegations of driving around West Volusia to see if he could find Sheriff Ben Johnson driving under the influence, a claim the sheriff denied.
DELAND -- A Florida Highway Patrol trooper is under investigation for allegedly targeting Sheriff Ben Johnson by looking for him on the roadways of West Volusia to see if he was driving under the influence.
DELAND -- A Volusia County Sheriff's investigator resigned after being arrested March 8, on a charge of DUI after smashing into a speed-limit sign in Lake County while speeding before crashing into a utility pole, which snapped in half, then crossing the road and striking a fence before finally being stopped by a tree.
Lake County authorities reported Sheriff's Investigator James Mathis, 31, was found with two open bottles of whiskey in his vehicle. Mathis had been reprimanded by his own department in January after arriving late for work and smelling of alcohol.
NSBNEWS.net video by Sera King. The New Smyrna Beach City Commission offered $417,000 Tuesday night to purchase the former Dunn Lumber property at West Canal and U.S. 1, the key intersection that is seen as the gateway to the city's tourism route: Historic Canal Street and the Indian River to the east, along with tourist-trendy Flagler Avenue and the Atlantic Ocean, and to the west, State Road 44 corridor shopping and rural charm.
DAYTONA BEACH -- Total passenger traffic at Daytona Beach International Airport decreased 34 percent in December compared with December 2007, said Vickie Pleus, Volusia County spokeswoman.
During December, 27,043 passengers arrived and departed through DBIA, compared with 41,084 in December 2007. For the 12-month period ending Dec. 31, 594,871 passengers traveled through the county-operated airport, compared with 705,475 travelers in 2007 and representing a 16-percent decrease.
PONCE INLET -- A Ponce Inlet police officer was suspended for two weeks without pay after an internal affairs investigation concluded he showed favoritism by not charging an off-duty Volusia County Sheriff's sergeant with driving under the influence in early November when he reported he had probable cause to make an arrest.
