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Earnest Warren was charged Tuesday with stalking and prowling outside a 14-year-old girl's bedroom window in Pelican Bay.
DAYTONA BEACH -- A man accused of stalking a 14-year-old girl and loitering around her bedroom window in the Pelican Bay subdivision has bonded out of the Volusia County Jail.
Courtesy photo/VCSO mug shot. James Stevens, 27, of Deltona, was charged Friday with first-degree murder in the beating death of his stepfather, Francis Ahern, 56.
DELTONA -- From the onset, there was much about Wednesday’s report of an unknown intruder beating a 56-year-old Deltona man to death that didn’t make sense, Volusia County Sheriff's spokesman Gary Davidson said.
Courtesy photo/South Daytona Web site. South Daytona Mayor Blaine O'Neal died Friday. He was 43.
SOUTH DAYTONA -- Mayor Blaine O'Neal died suddenly Friday of an apparent heart attack, city officials said. He was 43.
O'Neal was working in his chiropractic office Friday morning when he collapsed and was transported to Halifax Health Medical Center, where he died at 8:30 a.m.
ORANGE CITY -- Two burglars broke into the Central Florida Pawn and Gun Shop, using a hammer to smash through a glass case to gain access to several long guns, a 45-caliber handgun and an assault rifle Wednesday night after closing, police said.
HOLLY HILL -- A 23-year-old Holly Hill man was killed over the weekend when he smashed into the back of a car while speeding north on U.S. 1, Holly Hill police said.
DELAND -- Volusia County’s Solid Waste Division is hosting a household hazardous waste collection event for materials such as paint, used oils, pesticides, fluorescent lamps, car batteries and cleaning chemicals. These materials could contaminate ground water or pose a threat to the owner if kept too long.
An 8-year-old girl is being cared for at Halifax MerdicalCenter with what are being described as non-life threatening injuries after falling from a first-floor hotel balcony Tuesday night on the beachside, Daytona Beach Fire Department officials said.
DELAND -- Citing duplication of services and increasing costs, the S. Cornelia Young Memorial Library on the Daytona Beach beachside is expected to be closed in the next 45 days, county officials decided Thursday.
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Courtesy photo. Here is the latest installment of Gov. Charlie Crist's Notes from the Capitol, e-mailed to NSBNEWS.net on Friday:
Dear Friends, This Good Friday and Easter Sunday, I join Christians throughout Florida and around the world in celebration of faith and the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Each year at this time, we are reminded of both sacrifice and rebirth. The miracle that took place centuries ago continues to impact our daily lives. The God-given gifts of freedom and forgiveness are among the countless blessings we enjoy as Floridians.
DELAND -- Volusia County’s mail participation rate hit 22 percent Thursday, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, which is updating data daily at http://2010.census.gov/2010census/take10map/.
The nation’s rate is 29 percent, and Florida’s is 20 percent, said Pat Kuehn, a Volusia County spokeswoman.
