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DELAND -- Volusia County Government’s flagship web site, Volusia.org, is offline. Citizens may log onto a temporary page at Volusia.org for alternative resources or call the county’s toll-free information line, 866) 345-0345, until the site is restored.

Additional sites down include CelebratingCulture.com, ECHOTourism.com,
FloridaBusiness.org, FlyDaytonaFirst.com, MarineScienceCenter.com,
DeBaryHall.com, GreenVolusia.org, LyoniaPreserve.com, OceanCenter.com,
VolusiaForever-ECHO.com, VolusiaHistory.com, VolusiaImages.org, and
Votran.org.

DELAND Though Volusia County’s web sites temporarily are offline, the Jan. 8 County Council agenda and live, streaming audio of the meeting will be available online at Volusia.org through a temporary page.

Citizens may log onto the temporary page at Volusia.org for the audio at the meeting’s start at 8:30 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 8. The meeting agenda is available on the link “County Council Agenda Archives.”

To contact the Volusia County Government offices, please visit www.volusia.org and click on “County Phonebook” or call the Citizen Information Hotline toll-free (866) 345-0345.

ORMOND BEACH -- A 35-year-old Ormond Beach woman was killed 6:30 a.m. Wednesday when she lost control of her car and struck two other vehicles on State Road 40, near Interstate 40, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.

Misty Joan Driggers was westbound on S.R. 40 near Shadow Crossings Boulevard, when she lost control of her car, crossed the median and struck an oncoming motorist from Ocala before rolling over and striking another driver from Ormond Beach.

Courtesy photo. Cutline: Staff Sgt. Anthony D. Davis, 29, an Army Ranger and a Daytona Beach native, was killed Tuesday in Iraq.

Courtesy photo. Cutline: This photo of Suzanne Kosmas was taken when she was a member of the Florida Legislature. She easily outpolled incumbent Republican Congressman Tom Feeney for the District 24 seat in Washington D.C.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Suzanne Kosmas of New Smyrna Beach was sworn into office Tuesday as part of the 111th Congress.

DAYTONA BEACH -- A fire Monday on the third floor of the six-story Overlook South Condominiums, 100 Seabreeze Blvd., was contained to that unit and the one above with damages estimated at $100,000, Daytona Beach Fire Department officials said.

Flames and smoke were shooting through a third-floor window when firefighters arrived at 12:30 p.m., said Daytona Beach Fire Lt. Fred Godawa. That unit sustained fire and smoke damage. The window to the unit above that one was also blown out with the upper unit sustaining mostly smoke damage.

Courtesy photos. Cutline: Kristilyn Smith, 25, and her father, Alton Everett Smith, 46, were both charged today with incest. Both are from Palm Coast. The father was apprehended Monday in New Smyrna Beach as a fugitive from justice on 37 counts of child pornography. His wife, Tina Marie Smith, 36, was arrested Dec. 10, on similar child porn charges.

PALM COAST -- Alton Everett Smith, the 46-year-old fugitive from justice apprehended Monday by New Smyrna Beach police and the United States Marshall Service after trying to escape by climbing down six stories from the Oceania Beach Club on the beachside, has now been charged by Flagler County authorities with felony incest with his own daughter, 25-year-old Kristilyn Smith. She, too, was charged today with incest.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Everything from ballroom dance to doing the YMCA is on tap at the Brannon Center 6:30 p.m. Thursdays, starting this Thursday.

This will be a time to party, make new friends, and bring your own group and dance.

There's a big Valentine’s Party Thursday, Feb. 12.

Tickets are $5 at the door, for more information, please call Nicole Charbonneau at (386) 424-2280. The Brannon Center is at 105 S. Riverside Drive in New Smyrna Beach.

Courtesy photo. Cutline: Alton Everett Smith, 46, of Palm Coast, was apprehended in New Smyrna Beach this morning as a fugitive from justice on 37 counts of possession of child pornography.

DELAND -- A 19-year-old man shot and killed his 17-year-old former girlfriend, then turned the gun on himself the night of Feb. 15, on the front porch of her DeLand home, in what DeLand police termed a murder-suicide.

But this was no modern-day Romeo and Juliet. Police were called out to the former girlfriend Natasha Hall's home at least nine times since July 2007, all in reference to Daniel "Clay" Kufner.