Local News Now

Photo of Hazel Robbins of Deltona

DELTONA -- Hazel Robbins, the 86-year-old woman with Alheimer's reported missing Wednesday, was found safe several hours later about a half mile from her Deltona home, a Volusia County Sheriff's spokesman said.

A resident on Wakefield Circle, about a half-mile from where Robbins went missing, spotted her in his backyard at 2:25 p.m. 

Robbins was reported missing by her son at 10:16 a.m.

According to the son, Robbins -- who suffers from Alzheimer's Disease and congestive heart failure -- was home at 6 a.m., but walked away from their residence at 1107 Hastings Drive sometime afterwards.

The son called the Sheriff's Office after he drove around the neighborhood and couldn't find his mother.

More than a dozen patrol deputies, assisted by a K-9 unit, investigators and Sheriff's Office helicopter, searched for Robbins and checked area businesses, parks and cab companies," Sheriff's spokesman Gary Davidson told NSBNews.net.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- The weekly Edgewater Observer's hyped posting of a photo of Mayor Adam Barringer on its Facebook page regarding the tearing down of some dilapidated buildings drew ridicule from citizens who wrote to NSBNews.net and other public forums.

If you have seen the woman in this photo, identified as Hazel Robbins of Deltona, the Volusia County Sheriff's Ofiice wants you to call 9-1-1.

DELTONA -- The Volusia County Sheriff's Office is seeking the public's help in locating 86-year-old Hazel Robbins who wandered away from her home this morning.

Robbins was reported missing by her son at 10:16 a.m.

According to the son, Robbins -- who suffers from Alzheimer's Disease and congestive heart failure -- was home at 6 a.m., but walked away from their residence at 1107 Hastings Drive sometime afterwards.

The son called the Sheriff's Office after he drove around the neighborhood and couldn't find his mother.

"More than a dozen patrol deputies, assisted by a K-9 unit, investigators and Sheriff's Office helicopter, are searching for Robbins and checking area businesses, parks and cab companies," Sheriff's spokesman Gary Davidson told NSBNews.net.

NSBNews.net photos by Sera Frederick / 

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- They came by the hundreds in all kinds of scary costumes and captured quite a bit of candy along the way. Families, that is, for The 2011 NSB Halloween Parade on Canal Street. NSBNews.net will have a complete story later today with more videos and dozens of photos.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- People of all ages are expected to express themselves in costumes of their imagination during today's New Smyrna Beach Halloween Parade on Canal Street and NSBNews.net will be there with exclusive coverage for a third consecutive year.

EDGEWATER -- After 66 years on May 29ht 2004 President George W. Bush officially dedicated the World War II Monument in Washington D.C. to honor what Tom Brokaw called the Greatest Generation: Veterans of  World War II.

Second man attacked with machete in bloody street fight 

BREAKING NEWS: Justin Riley, 29, shown here at left in a previous Volusia County Jail mug arrest, suffered a major wound to his arm when he was attacked witrh a machete early Saturday morning in Daytona Beach. A second man was gunned down in the street.

DAYTONA BEACH -- Blood was spilled in a street fight in the Highridge Estates under the cover of darkness with one man shot to death and a second attacked with a machete-type weapon requiring life-saving surgery to close a deep wound to his left forearm.

The Volusia County Sheriff's Office has identified the 5:36 a.m. homicide victim on Aspen Street as 41-year-old Brian Leverett. Justin Riley, 29, underwent life-saving surgery at Halifax Medical Center for a deep wound to his left forearm.

Investigators with the Sheriff's Office's Major Case Unit have detained two brothers for questioning and a possible motive for the violence.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- A 1-year-old child has been transported to Halifax Medical Center in Daytona Beach with non-life threatening injuries earlier in the day Thursday after a neighbor took possession of the child and called authorities.

"The Volusia County Sheriff's Office received information about an injured child in the New Smyrna Beach area and responded to begin an investigation," agency spokesman Brandon Haught said. "Investigators are interviewing family members and possible witnesses to determine how the child was injured."

NSBNews.net photo by Henry Frederick / New Smyrna Beach City Commissioner Judy Reiker is stoic after her unanimous appointment as vice mayor during Tuesday night's city commission meeting.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- With nearly two years as an elected commissioner under her belt, it was inevitable the ceremonial title of vice mayor would be bestowed upon Judy Reiker.

Besides, the other more seasoned commissioners had held the title already, among them Lynne Plaskett, Jack Grasty and Jim Hathaway.

It was Hathaway who made the motion to transfer the title from his name to Reiker's with Grasty seconding and Plaskett chiming in "absolutely."