ORMOND-BY-THE-SEA -- A New Smyrna Beach boy was swimming with his pregnant girlfriend in an area not guarded by lifeguards when they got caught in a rip current and he went under while she was rescued by a another swimmer. Bendon Martin was just 16.
The body washed ashore early Sunday, about a mile from the reported drowning in the 1200 block of State Road A1A.
DELEON SPRINGS -- The Volusia County Sheriff's Office is investigating a shooting Saturday night in DeLeon Springs that resulted in a 33-year-old man dying early the next morning at Halifax Medical Center in Daytona Beach.
"Deputies were initially dispatched to the area of Katrina Street at 7:18 p.m.after a resident called 911 to report hearing a commotion in the street and a possible gunshot," Sheriff's spokesman Gary Davidson said. "The caller said that after the disturbance, several people fled the area in a van. Deputies quickly responded, but everyone had already left the area."
DAYTONA BEACH -- A 47-year-old city woman died Tuesday at Shands Medical Center in Gainesville, just four days after being caught in an apparent electrical fire in her Forest Ridge Drive home.
Robin Pond was being treated in the hospital's burn unit for third-degree burns that covered 75 percent of her body.
Her family has planned a memorial service for 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 10 at the Volusia Memorial Funeral Home, 548 N. Nova Road, Ormond Beach.
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Courtesy photos. Corrections officer Donna Fitzgerald was murdered by an inmate at Tomoka prison -- stabbed 25 times on June 25 while she was working alone in a section of the prison with 13 inmates. Enoch Hall, a lifer, was charged with capital murder and faces the death penalty, if convicted at trial.
OAK HILL -- The city's $1.6 million budget for the new fiscal year that begins Oct. 1, will require a tax increase, despite wage freezes and no new equipment purchases.
The tax rate to support the budget, approved Monday, requires $5.79 per $1,000 of assessed property value, which is still more than a percentage point higher than the rolled-back rate of $5.72, which is considered a break-even rate by the Florida Legislature, and therefore not a tax increase because it would have generated the same amount of revenue minus new construction.
Sept. 25, 2009: Raymond L. Kuhn and Gina A. Guffanti, Edgewater; James C. Harris and Rebecca L. Ryan, Edgewater; Jess T. Adams Jr. and Tanya M. Simonds, New Smyrna Beach; Robert F. Smith and Andrea M. Walter, Edgewater.
Paul Nieves, 56, of New Smyrna Beach, a native of Tampa, died Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2009.
Bernice Scott, 86, of New Smyrna Beach, a homemaker, died Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2009.
Carl Burkhart Jr., 57, of Edgewater, a native of Pittsburgh, died Monday, Sept. 21, 2009.
Lovina Reve, 75, of Edgewater, a native of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, died Monday, Sept. 21, 2009.
John Silva-Medeiros, 59, of Edgewater, and a native of Fall River, Mass., who enjoyed doll making, woodworking and photography, died Friday, Sept. 18, 2009.
Sept. 25, 2009: Phillip E. McLaughlin Jr. and Denise L. Poirier, Edgewater.
NSBNEWS.net photo by Henry Frederick. Mayoral candidate Marilee Walters said she was physically wiped out in the waning moments of primary night voting as shown in this photo outside a polling precinct on the beachside Tuesday night. Walters finished a distant third in her first try at elective office.
NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Former mayoral candidate Marilee Walters issued a written statement Thursday, thanking those who voted for her candidacy.
Sept. 22, 2009 -- Daniel W. Whitaker and Dawn K. Miller, Edgewater; William J. Joyce and Sheena M. Cox, Edgewater.
