Ormond Beach

Photo for Headline Surfer / Ormond Beach Mayor Ed Kelley, shown here at left, holds his "Walking with the Manager" asessions monthly near City Hall.

ORMOND BEACH -- City Engineer John Noble will be the City Manager Ed Kelley's “guest walker” 8 a.m. Friday, June 28, and he will speak about the current utility, stormwater and roadway improvements underway in the Hand Avenue area along with the added park benefits that will result from the project.

“Walking with the Manager" will begin at the public parking area for Central Park located on the north side of Hand Avenue and east of Oak Brook Drive. The walk will be approximately 2 miles.

ORMOND BEACH, Fla. -- One of the things that struck Father James Harris, a runner in the fateful Boston Marathon, was how the large crowd reacted to the two explosions at the finish line.

Orange City woman apprehended in North Carolina

Iredell County, N.C., Sheriff's Office mug shot / The long arm of the law caufght up with Steffani Lariscy, 37, arrested in North Carolina after Volusia County Sheriff's deputies accusaed her in a warrant arrest with stealing nearly $170,000 from her employer and using some of the stolen cash for breast implants. 

ORMOND BEACH -- A former accountant who bragged of spending $7,000 of the thousands of dollars she alledgedly pilfered from her employer while working as an accountant, has been arrested on theft charges after being taken into custody in North Carolina, a Volusia County Sheriff's official said.

ORMOND BEACH -- Mayor Ed Kelley gave his city commission colleagues and the public a dose of reality regarding unfunded pension liability issues.

According to the minutes of the April 2 Ormond Beach City Commission meeting, the mayor said Stockton, Calif., recently became the largest city to file for bankruptcy in the U.S. Kelley said Stockton was almost a billion dollars in debt and was driven to that primarily by unfunded pension liabilities.

The Ormond Beach Leisure Services is located at 399 N. US 1 as shown in the locator map at left.

ORMOND BEACH -- City officials want you to know that registration is under way for the Ormond Beach Summer Connection Day Camp Program.

The Calvary Christian Center, shown here in this locator map, is the setting for a violence summit.

ORMOND BEACH -- State Attorney R.J. Larizza will lead a distinguished panel of presenters at the 2013 Circuit 7 Domestic Violence Summit to be held Friday at the Calvary Christian Center, 1687 W. Granada Blvd.

Assistant State Attorney Michele Simonsen and Apopka Police Capt. Jerome Miller will join LaRizza in presenting a workshop, entitled "Effective Investigations/Evidence for Court," as part of the overall domestic violence summit.  

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- With a mere 6 percent of the 66,166 registered voters taking part in the electoral process, Tuesday's primary turnout for the dist. 2 school board seat could go down as among the lowest in modern times with only 3,390 bothering to vote.

The Bermuda Estates Apartments in Ormond Beach was the locale of a violent comfrontation between two brothers in their early 30s.

ORMOND BEACH -- An argument between two brothers Thursday turned violent when one stabbed the other in the face and ear, police said.

Here is a synopsios of what happened in the 3:20 p.m. inccident at the Bermuda Estates Apartments, 10,000 St. George Road No. 23, as described by Ormond Beach Police spokesman Lt. Kenny Hayes: Patrol units found 30-year-old Andrew Taylor on the complex grounds bleeding from wounds to the face and ear. Andrew’s brother, 32-year-old Eric Taylor, fled the area on foot prior to police arrival. The younger Taylor who was not cooperating with the investigation was transported to Ormond Memorial Hospital for treatment. Police located Eric Taylor nearby at the Walmart store and apprehended him after a brief foot chase.

Eric Taylor was charged with one count of aggravated battery -- domestic violence.