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Courtesy photo / Former University High School music teacher James Morris, 26, is charged with 14 felony counts of dealing in stolen property for alleged thefts of musical instruments sold to cope with gambling debts.

ORANGE CITY -- When musical instruments started turning up missing at University High School in Orange City, school administrators initially had no clues or leads. But the investigation took an unexpected twist earlier this month that led to the school's former music teacher, 26-year-old James Morris.

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Courtesy photo / Marvin Callaway of Decatur, Ga., is missing and is considered at risk because he is bipolar, is a diabetic and has high blood pressure.

DAYTONA BEACH -- Police are asking the public's help in locating Marvin Callaway, 55, of Decatur, Ga., reported missing Tuesday by his wife back home. He was released from the Volusia County Branch Jail a day earlier on a misdemeanor charge of retail theft.

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Courtesy photos / At far left, Gustavo Huertas, 23, of Daytona Beach, was sentenced to 15 years in state prison for numerous criminal transactions involving the delivery of narcotics while armed and sale of narcotics.  Tyrell Jackson, 21, of Daytona Beach, was sentenced to seven years in state prison for sale and delivery of cocaine while carrying a concealed gun. Both were put behind bars as a result of  "Operation 819."

DAYTONA BEACH -- The men involved in dealing stolen guns and narcotics within the city limits were given prison sentences and a third is awaiting sentences, a Daytona Beach police spokesman said Wednesday, as a result of a two-year joint operation of the police force and the U.S. Department of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.

Dubbed "operation 819," 50 people were served federal and state warrants charging them with a variety of narcotics- and firearms-related felonies, Daytona Beach police spokesman Sgt. Paul Barnett said. The operation began in August 2008 and lasted two years, he said.

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EDGEWATER -- A suspicious package in a mailbox just before noon Wednesday turned out to be a hoax, but not befoe tying up public safety personnel for several hours.

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Courtesy photo for NSBNews.Net / New Members of the Port Orange Family Days Community Trust Board, flanked by President John E. Evans, left and Installing Officer Mayor Allen Green, right, are, from left, Cheryl Shaw, Mike Arminio, Amy Hall, Todd Matacale, John Junco and Karen Beattie.

PORT ORANGE -- Mayor Allen Green told the members of the community-building Port Orange Family Days Community Trust that the one thing he won't let a resident tell him is "where home is."

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NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- The New Smyrna Beach Lions Club will hold a chicken barbecue 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday at its clubhouse, 2340 Sunset Drive.

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Trevor Bayne won the Daytona 500, but if he's looking for a cup championship, he'll have to get it in the Nationwide series, the understudy to the Sprint series.

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ORMOND BEACH -- Police are are continuing their investigation into a Feb. 23 burglary at a business within blocks of the police station.

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Photos and story submitted by contributing writer Dale Smith for NSBNews.Net / Mayor Adam Barringer, left, listens to Vice Mayor Jim Hathaway speak about the proposed parking kiosks earmarked for the North Causeway Boat Ramp parking lot designed to raise money to offset maintenance costs.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH – With 2013 looming on the horizon, city officials said tonight they are worried how they will pay for the maintenance of parks they will inherit once Volusia County no longer will be responsible for the costs.