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Courtesy photo/Polk County jail mug. Mia Morrison, 29, of Ormond Beach, was among 28 people Tuesday in a Polk County prostitution sting.
BARTOW -- A 29-year-old Ormond Beach woman was among 28 people arrested Tuesday in a Polk County prostitution sting targeting women advertising themselves on craigslist, the trendy classified advertising Web site.
NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Police responded to 3:44 p.m. Wednesday to a report of "shots fired" at 916 Palmetto St., apartment A, and after getting information from the intended victims who were not injured, police caught up with the suspect vehicle and arrested the occupants.
Police charged Tamrea Jo-Ann Busbey, 19; Kyle Patrick Doolin, 18; and a juvenile with shooting into an occupied dwelling.
DAYTONA BEACH -- Citing the effects of a national recession, International Speedway Corp., owner of Daytona International Speedway and the Daytona 500, has cut 50 jobs in its corporate and business offices.
ISC spokesman Lenny Santiago said the cuts, some through attrition, were "in response to unprecedented and protracted economic declines" that have "led us to realign or restructure a number of functions."
That hasn't stopped ISC from moving ahead with plans to open a $591 million casino in Kansas City, Kansas, at its track there.
Sept. 16, 2009: Daniel C. Woods and Monica L. Leucht, New Smyrna Beach.
DAYTONA BEACH -- A mother ran to a nearby business to call 9-1-1 with her 9-month-old baby boy in her arms after she realized he wasn't breathing, Daytona Beach police said. The baby was pronounced dead at the scene by EVAC paramedics.
The mother, who lives in the vicinity of Mason Avenue and Edwards Street ran to the nearby Daytona Collision, 825 Edwards St., after checking on her sleeping baby and realizing he was not breathing, poilice said of the incident just before 3:30 p.m.
OAK HILL -- A 47-year-old motorist killed Tuesday in a car accident Tuesday on Interstate 95 in Brevard County was identified today by the Florida Highway Patrol as Oak Hill resident Artice Lee Smith
NSBNEWS.net video and photos by Sera Frederick. Between four and six city workers spent all day Tuesday putting up the $9,000 artificial Christmas tree purchased with tax dollars by the Community Redevelopment Agency at the eastern-most end of Canal Street just a couple feet from the riverbank. The tree went up less than a week after the City Commission voted unanimously to tentatively go with the rolled-back rate of $3.7 per $1,000 to finance the $21 million budget for the upcoming fiscal year, which meant no raises for city employees, the elimination of five open police officer positions and severe cutbacks in capital improvements. Yet the Community Redevelopment Agency was allowed to spend $9,000 this spring to purchase the artificial tree, which has become a lightning rod in this primary election about spending priorities.
NSBNEWS.net video by Sera Frederick.
DAYTONA BEACH -- Forty-three employees of the Daytona Beach News-Journal lost their jobs earlier today, according to several sources.
Of the 43 cuts, 16 were in the newsroom and nine were unionized pressmen. The others were from various other departments.
Executive Editor Don Lindley informed the terminated employees in an e-mail and then left for the day at 4 p.m. without facing any of those whose jobs were cut, according to an inside source.
NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- A search is under way for a 15-year-old boy who allegedly threw a stick at a passing school bus heading north in the 800 block of South Myrtle Avenue this afternoon that injured three kids on board when a window was shattered, New Smyrna Beach police said,
The incident happened at 4 p.m. just north of the New Smyrna Beach Middle School by the boy, whose name was not released by police because of his age and believed to be a middle school student.
