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NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- A 20-year-old New Smyrna Beach man was killed Thursday night in a traffic accident in Flagler County after he lost control of his vehicle and struck another vehicle before being ejected, the Florida Highway Patrol reported.

Aaron Isaac Wyman lost control of his vehicle at 11:40 p.m. on Rymfire Drive, just west of Rae Drive, while eastbound around a curve, spinning counrt-clockwise and striking a westbound car driven by Carol Corbin, 53, of Daytona Beach, the FHP said.

DAYTONA BEACH -- A convicted felon is back in jail after brawling with a convenience store clerk Thursday night over $1.03 worth of gas, the Volusia County Sheriff's Office said.

The incident, which took place at about 10:45 p.m. at a Circle K on South Nova Road near Daytona Beach, was witnessed by a customer who called 911 to report the altercation.

"We just pulled up and he grabbed one of the car squeegees and went after the guy working in the store," the witness told a Volusia
County Sheriff's Office dispatcher. "I think he was screaming about his money or something."

Courtesy photo (far left). Bruce Rossmeyer, shown here in a studio shoot, was killed Thursday while riding his Harley on a Wyoming roadway on his way to the Sturgis motorcycle rally in South Dakota.

NSBNEWS.net photo by Sera Frederick. Bruce Rossmeyer's New Smyrna Harley-Davidson on State Road 44 in New Smyrna Beach as shown in this photo taken 11 p.m. Thursday. He owned the Harley dealership in his namesake on Beach Street in Daytona Beach as well as Destination Daytona off Interstate 95 near Ormond Beach. Rossmeyer, who lived in Ormond Beach and Fort Lauderdale, and known for his many charitable causes, is survived by his wife and five children. He was 66.

Thelma Mabel Sepessy, 93, of New Smyrna Beach, an avid seamstress, who spent half the year here and the other half in New Hampshire and had 10 great grandchildren among her youngest survivors, died Thursday, July 30, 2009.

Teri Paul Cahill, 55, of New Smyrna Beach, who retired as owner of T Paul Hair Design in New Smyrna Beach and survived by her husband, Stephen, and four children, died Sunday, July 26, 2009.

Courtesy photo/NSB police mug shots. NSBNEWS.net photo (at right) by Henry Frederick. Jana Calisse Grant, 47, of New Smyrna Beach, accused in the fatal hit-and-run accident that left a 42-year-old Port Orange man dead on the side of the road on the North Causeway, has bonded out of jail. She met a friend at her Canal Street salon soon after the fatal crash instead of rendering help, according to New Smyrna Beach police investigators who carried out an exhaustive investigation that led to her arrest eight months after Glenn Scott Gagnon was left to die on the side of the North Causeway.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Jana Calisse Grant, the 47-year-old salon owner accused of striking a pedestrian and leaving him to die and then washing his blood off her vehicle at a nearby car wash, avoided a first appearance before a judge Saturday at the Volusia Branch Jail by making bail.

WASHINGTON D.C. -- Congresswoman Suzanne Kosmas, D-New Smyrna Beach (FL-24) announced today that cities in Volusia County have been allocated funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act through the Department of Justice Office of Community Oriented Policing Services, COPS Hiring Recovery Program. The grants will fund eight police officer positions in Daytona Beach, three in Deland and one in South Daytona Beach.

July 28, 2009: Curtis L. Green and Hattie M. Laws, New Smyrna Beach; Thomas H. Dubord and Susan A. Ward, Edgewater.

Gordon "Buster" C. Hounsell Jr., 81, of Laconia, N.H., and formerly of Edgewater, died Friday, July 24, 2009.

Ruth Neal Jones, 73, of New Smyrna Beach, who operated a cleaning business and enjoyed sewing, quilting, fishing, golfing and spending time with her family, died Friday, July 24, 2009.

Joseph Parkinson, 79, of Edgewater, a native of Lincoln, N.H., died Friday, July 24, 2009.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla – Concerned Citizens of New Smyrna Beach announced today that it had achieved the first victory in a recently launched effort to reform its local government by virtue of a legal opinion that puts in doubt a longstanding "sweetheart" lease between the city and the Angler's Club for exclusive use of 43 boat slips .

NSBNEWS.net photo by Henry Frederick. Pam Brangaccio reported for duty Monday as the new city manager for New Smyrna Beach. She caught a breather for a few minutes outside the Administrative Office Building off the North Causeway in the early afternoon with Mayor Sally Mackay, having spent all morning meeting many of the city's 280-plus employees with stops at the main City Hall, fire stations, Public Works, Police Station and the Municipal Golf Course. Today, she gets down to business refining the new fiscal budget.