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Photos by Henry Frederick / New Smyrna Beach Mayor Adam Barringer says he's pleased the city's finances are sound, but with unfunded balances in police and fire, the city is at greater risk financially. Daytona Beach cop Bob Walker, new business agent for Teamsters Local 385, says its unfair to curb pay increases for cops and firefighters and expected them to pay more for pensions they've earned.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- The news behind New Smyrna Beach's annual audit is good considering the escalating costs of government doing business in this economy.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. -- City Commissioner Lynne Plaskett knew the sudden blinding rain was too much for her windshield as visibility disappeared like a whiteout from a fast moving rainstorm while on her way to Edgewater to drop off her granddaughter from school, so she pulled over on Park Avenue.

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DELAND -- Maria Capuano could hear the thunder and the bolts of lighting as she moved quickly to close the windows in her living room in hopes of keeping the suddenly driving rain inside just after 5 tonight. Instead, a huge oak tree smashed down on top, splitting the house virtually in half and knocking her briefly unconscious.

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PORT ORANGE -- The Fraternal Order of Eagles in Port Orange is having a dinner, 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 9, at its clubhouse, 5130 S. Ridgewood Ave, to raise money to help support “My Angel with Paws.”

Did you know that each city in our county and some individual cites pay upwards of $90 in your taxes per feral cat to put them to sleep? We pay to kill cats...and dogs! That does not include police and animal control time and work. And not just the feral ones. The feral ones just get the needle sooner.

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DAYTONA BEACH – This was not your parents' Spring Break when MTV rocked the beach and hotels were trashed. 

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Photos by Henry Frederick / Suspended police officer Mike Ihnken had three commissioners deny Police Chief Diane Young's request that he be fired. But this time around he had no support.

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Video and photos by Henry Frederick / Ray Catheline, who works at Kokomo's Salon, 521 Canal St., New Smyrna Beach, washes and styles customer Kim Poole's hair during the wildly successful Sunday Cudas Unhooked hair-a-thon fundraiser, which he organized.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Nobody was more blown away by today's Cudas Unhooked hair-a-thon fundraiser than the organizer himself -- KokoMo's Salon hair stylist Ray Catheline.

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Courtesy photo / Cubby says "play ball'' and WSBB radio in New Smyrna Beach will have all the action, both home and away for the upcoming season of the Daytona Cubs who call Jackie Robinson Stadium home.

DAYTONA BEACH -- The Daytona Cubs and New Smyrna Beach-based WSBB radio will partner up for the 2011 season to make AM 1230 the new and official "Voice of the Daytona Cubs."