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Newspaper provides scant details on website, tells readers to 'get full story in Wednesday's edition'

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DAYTONA BEACH -- The Daytona Beach News-Journal reported on its website this afternoon that former Daytona State College President Kent Sharples has been hired as president of CEO Business Alliance, described by the newspaper "as a newly formed group made of up top executives from several of Volusia County's most prominent businesses."

The story was posted at 2:04 p.m. on the newspaper's website, and informed readers they can "read the full story in Wednesday's edition of The Daytona Beach News-Journal."

The story can be found by clicking the "button" on the News-Journal website's home page marked "Breaking News," which takes the reader to another page where the actual story can be accessed. Here is a direct link: http://www.news-journalonline.com/breakingnews/2011/01/ceo-business-alliance-hires-former-daytona-state-president.html

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Photos by Henry Frederick and video by Sera Frederick / Suspended Oak Hill police officer Mike Ihnken refutes Police Chief Diane Young's administrative charges and demand to the City Commission that he be "terminated" for being derelict in his duties. The commission gives him the benefit of the doubt at Monday's packed meeting and questions whether Young is the problem. See our exclusive post-meeting video interview with the officer.

OAK HILL -- On a 3-2 vote, the City Commission led by Mayor Darla Lauer rejected Police Chief Diane Young's recommendation that embattled officer Michael Ihnken be fired.

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Courtesy photo/POPD Jail mug of Jeffrey E. Richardson, 49, charged with lewd and lascivious conduct involving three children.

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Courtesy photos VCBJ / Brian Keith Fender, 26, of DeLand, and Thomas Joseph Reynolds, 27 of DeLeon Springs, face felony and misdemeanor charges in the theft of copper near Lake George.

DELTONA -- Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officers patrolling Lake George Wildlife Management Area on Friday night caught a pair of Volusia County men stealing copper wire from a utility pole.

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Photos by Dale Smith / Ruby James of New Smyrna Beach and a member of the Artist’s Workshop, carries three bricks away from the former New Smyrna Beach High School campus on Quay Assisi , which is being demolished to make way for the  Mosquito Lagoon Enhancement Center. James took the bricks for her three children who graduated there.

This story was submitted by contributing writer Dale Smith

NEW SMYRNA BEACH – City resident, a long-time advocate and supporter of the Mosquito Lagoon Enhancement Center, cried as a big claw swiped at the side of a building on the camps of the former New Smyrna Beach High School, scattering bricks below.

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.