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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Then-State Attorney John Tanner prayed with serial killer Ted Bundy before he got the electric chair in 1989, and 13 years later, he watched the nation's most notorious female

DEBARY, Fla. -- At 76, Arnold McDermott was not shy about repeatedly having sex with a 15-year-old girl in exchange for giving her prescription pills; even bragging about it, a Volusia County Sheriff's spokesman said Friday after his arrest.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla.  -- A 21-year-old man shot twice Sunday night was uncooperative with detectives as he was being treated for non-life threatening wounds at Bert Fish Medical Center, police said.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. -- A masked robber was shot and killed by a security guard just before 10:15 at the Medicine Shoppe, at 653 N. Dixie Freeway, after he stuck a gun in the face of the pharmacist and demanded drugs, New Smyrna Beach police confirmed.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. -- Two brothers, ages 10 and 7, with severe burns on their faces, chests and arms, are hospitalized in critical condition and their mother commited under the state's Baker Act, for psychiatric evaluation, New Smyrna Beach police said of the early Monday incident at a duplex in the 400 block of 10th Street.

DEBARY, Fla. -- An 18th suspect has been charged in a pill-pushing ring in DeBary with 48-year-old Patty Ann Russ of Deltona turning herself in to investigators at the Volusia County Sheriff's Office's DeBary headquarters in DeLand, Sheriff's spokesman Gary Davidson said. 

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- The Volusia County Beach Patrol officer arrested earlier this month on charges of having sex with an under-age girl between 20-25 times at his Port Orange home, is now contesting his termination.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. -- An anonymous complaint led Volusia County narcotics agents to a home methamphetamine lab Sunday morning near New Smyrna Beach that resulted in two narcotics arrests, a Sheriff's spokesman said.