Deltona News

Poincianaville? If this were baseball, the debate over whether Poinciana should become a city is just past the National Anthem.

Nov. 5, 2009 Vickie Pleus, APR, CPRC Community Information Specialist County Council members to attend Deltona workshop Nov.

The Volusia County School Board has suspended a Deltona Middle School paraprofessional for three days without pay after he was accused of attempting to force a piece of pizza on a student.

A healthcare reform discussion panel, sponsored by the Democratic Club of Southwest Volusia, will be held 7 p.m. Thursday.

For two weeks, 68-year-old Ruben Ortiz Columbie, a Baptist missionary in Cuba, lingered in a Cuban jail, wondering what he had done wrong and with no way of knowing when, or if, he would be freed.

More than a dozen residents of southwest Volusia County, most of them in the small city of DeBary , were arrested Friday as the Volusia County Sheriff's Office dismantled a ring dealing in fraudulently obtained prescription painkillers.

The British citizen killed in a traffic crash this week was hosting his friends from Wallasey, England, on a golf vacation in Daytona Beach, his sister said.

The board, which meets at 4 p.m. at the DeLand Administrative Complex, 200 N. Clara Ave., DeLand is scheduled to approve improvement plans for 78 elementary, middle, high, alternative and charter schools.

Police this afternoon identified the pedestrian struck and killed overnight in an Orange City crash.

The Volusia County Sheriff's Office is investigating the case of a Deltona woman who died at her home after a face-lift and chin liposuction by a Central Florida cosmetic surgeon, a sheriff's spokesman said.

The Deltona Regional Library will offer a variety of educational and entertainment programs for people of all ages in November.

Bicycle helmets for children will be given away in Daytona Beach and Deltona on Thursday as long as they last, according to the Volusia County Sheriff's Office.

A Deltona woman died hours after undergoing a facelift at a Maitland doctor's office, and Volusia County deputies are trying to find out why, WFTV -Channel 9 reported.

More than 2000 homes in Deltona are losing the right to have a mailbox in front of their house.

The brush fire off of Pioneer Trail and Jungle Road in New Smyrna Beach started Sunday around 1:43 p.m. At this time the brush fire is about 10 acres, but it is controlled.

Violent Crime. Units o/s of attempted home invasion. Perp scared off by homeowner.

A Lowe's Home Improvement store about to open, a couple of Family Dollars in the planning stages and a new strip center would satisfy some city officials during the current recession.

Volusia County Schools West Volusia 734-7190 ext. 20000 New Smyrna Beach 427-5223 ext.

Escambia County deputies are investigating a shooting near the intersection of Denver Avenue and Tucson Avenue in the Bellview community that happened Friday afternoon.

Police: Victims 'Still In Diapers' WESH.com updated Oct. 10, 2009 DELTONA, Fla. - WESH.com Volusia County police are investigating sexual assault allegations against a Deltona man.