Miracle: Kitten rescued from storm drain after rainstorm
PORT ORANGE, Fla. -- This happened in a business parking lot. Storm drain.
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As real as it gets: Deltona's Melody Johnson truly deserving of four more years on Volusia County School Board
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DELTONA, Fla. -- Melody McSorley Johnson is as real as it gets as an elected politician on the Volusia County School Board.
New Smyrna Beach cops: Motorist wanted on felony charges of leaving the scene of 2017 crash resulting in the death of 21-year-old Kaelee Morrell
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NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. -- Jeremy Patrick Wharton: Do the right thing and turn yourself in!
That's the message family and friends of 21-year-old Kaelee Morrell are conveying to the 32-year-old Wharton, who is now wanted on felony charges of leaving the scene of a Crash involving a fatality and leaving the scene of a crash with serious bodily injury.
Trump rips NFL players protesting NFL anthem
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Are you ready for some football?
Volusia County sides with fired deputy John Szabo over sheriff: 'Chitwood is horrible'
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla -- Volusia County has sided with fired deputy John Szabo over Sheriff Mike Chitwood and as a result, he has received full back pay and benefits dating back to the day nearly a year ago.
County Council write-in candidate epitome of Mike Chitwood vitriolic crud engaged in gutter campaign against frontrunner Ben Johnson
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- He was once suspected by a neighboring DeLand family of four of leaving a dripping used condom with blood on it on the welcoming mat of their front porch door as a perverse act of intimidation.
New Smyrna Beach Board of Realtors endorses Chase Herbig for NSB mayor; ex-Sheriff Ben Johnson and incumbent Deb Denys for county council seats
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NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. -- It comes as no surprise that ex-Sheriff Ben Johnson was endorsed by the Board of Realtors in his run for at the at-large seat on the Volusia County Council. Same thing with endorsing Deb Denys for re-election to her District 3 County Council seat representing New Smyrna Beach, Edgewater, and Oak Hill.
And right there in the same company is Chase Herbig, one of six first-time candidates for mayor of New Smyrna Beach with no incumbent. And so it was Herbig tabbed Friday by the New Smyrna Beach Board of Realtors as the organization's 2018 endorsement recommended to the voters as the successor to retiring Mayor Jim Hathaway, a second-generation native son whose late father also was mayor of the city by the sea in the 1970s.
Daytona Chamber CEO Nancy Keefer to be named chair of the umbrella organization's board of directors
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Nancy Keefer, CCE, president and CEO of the Daytona Regional Chamber of Commerce, will be named chair of the Association of Chamber of Commerce’s Board of Directors during the organization’s annual meeting on July 18.
REWIND of NASCAR's Coke Zero Sugar 400: Erik Jones, first-time winner of July race under the lights at Daytona International Speedway
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- A year ago, it was Ricky Stenhouse who won the war of attrition and NASCAR's signature July race under the lights at Daytona International Speedway.
It was Stenhouse who be the cause of attrition Saturday night with the "Big One" that claimed half the field. But it was a little-known driver, Erik Jones, who passed the reigning series champion, Martin Truex Jr by .125 of a second at the finish line to win the Coke Zero Sugar 400.