The New Smyrna Beach Winn-Dixie is having a "Dunk A Boss" contest from noon to 8 p.m. today to raise funds for Community Back to School Supply Drive to help kids in Oak Hill, Edgewater and New Smyrna Beach. Get two tries for $1 or 12 tries for $5. Come And try to dunk managers of Denny's, Winn-Dixie and more.
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OAK HILL -- Sgt. Manny Perez returned to work this morning from his March 30 paid suspension, but things are far from settled with him accusing embattled Police Chief Diane Young of being corrupt, engaging in a relationship with a drug dealer, ticket fixing and other allegations, all of which she has denied.
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Then-State Attorney John Tanner prayed with serial killer Ted Bundy before he got the electric chair in 1989, and 13 years later, he watched the nation's most notorious female
NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- NSBNews.net has its 15 minutes of fame and then some with the world-wide coverage of Casey Anthony's jail release highlighted on Google News.
Yes, that's right! NSBNews.net and we are excited to share this with our faithful followers throughout Central Florida from here in New Smyrna Beach, the family paradise on the ocean's edge.
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By Mark Williams of Daytona BeachAfter doing a hundred-plus Nancy Grace shows on CNN's Headline News, now called HLN, and spending three years involved with the media side of the case, I thought I'd blog my thoughts exclusively for NSBNews.net. The jury has spoken and Casey Anthony is a free woman as of 12:14 this Sunday morning.
ORLANDO -- Fourteen minutes after midnight on this Sunday morning, Casey Anthony walked out of
By Darlene Vann of EdgewaterThe unbelievable has happened with the acquittal of Casey Anthony and even with that travesty we still aren’t done with her with her release from jail She just won’t get out of our news. Now she has the nerve to appeal her convictions for lying to the police that the officers testified to during the trial and is well documented. What kind of justice is this? It is no doubt some legal maneuver to distract us from something else that’s going on.
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By Cheyenne Drews of EdgewaterThe case of the most analyzed woman and her whole family has made it across the world and it occurred in our state! You can check all the way in Ireland and Casey Anthony is big news! Everyone has been watching. I have personally watched it very closely as much as possible each day and even three or so years ago when they were still searching for a living, missing girl: little Caylee Anthony.
Courtesy photos / A large mid-June fire shown here in the Maytown Road area between Oak Hill and Osteen was among dozens of wild fires plaguing rural Volusia County, have finally been quelled by several weeks of steady rain leading to county officials announcing Wednesday that bans in place on fireworks use and outdoor burning would be lifted by this weekend.
DELAND -- Volusia County Fire Services will lift the outdoor and fireworks bans for the county’s unincorporated areas as well as the cities of Lake Helen, Pierson and Oak Hill at 12:01 a.m. Saturday.
The burn ban had been issued March 3, and the fireworks ban took effect June 6.
“The environmental conditions have improved because of the recent rain storms,” Volusia County Fire Services Chief Joseph Pozzo said earlier today, referring to the 12-plus inches of rainfall in the last few weeks. “But there is still a lot of dry vegetation throughout the county, so we ask residents to continue practicing wildfire safety.”
Pozzo notes that residents should not discard cigarettes from moving vehicles or park a hot car or operate all-terrain vehicles on dry grass. Outdoor fires and grills should be attended constantly and extinguished completely, and lawn mowers and farm equipment should be checked to make sure they have properly working spark arresters.
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NSBNews.net photo by Sera Frederick /OAK HILL -- It didn't take former cop Michael Ihnken long to fire back at embattled Police Chief Diane Young for his dragged out suspension and ultimately his dismissal from the force. Ihnken has filed a wrongful termination lawsuit in circuit court against the city of Oak Hill.
The suit was filed on his behalf by attorney William MacQueen and received by the clerk of the court this afternoon. Paperwork on it wasn't immediately available because it hadn't yet been scanned, a court official said.
Lawsuits filed in circuit court seek a minimum of $15,000. Ihnken was fired March 28, barely six weeks after his status was changed from paid to unpaid administrative leave at the rquest of Police Chief Diane Young.
The chief had accused him of failing to keep his firearms training certification up to date.
