Ormond Beach News

STRAWBERRY FESTIVAL FEATURES HOMETOWN NEWS COLUMNIST Enjoy fresh strawberries and listen to fish tales during the annual Strawberry Festival at 2 p.m. Sunday, March 4, at the Ormond Beach Regional Library, 30 S. Beach St.

Police said the crash happened at 3:44 a.m. Sunday, in the 200 block of north U.S. 1 in Ormond Beach.

Two more Republicans jumped into the 6th Congressional District contest Thursday, ensuring at least a three-way GOP primary there.

A DNA match has determined that a South Daytona woman missing since 2010 was the person found dead in an Ormond Beach ditch last year, a police report shows.

An often over-looked repository of Daytona Beach history is located in the Halifax Historical Museum on the mainland portion of Daytona Beach in the former Merchant's Bank Building on Beach Street.

Riders collected poker cards at each participating location which entered them for a chance to win a $500 grand prize .

The 52-foot, 60,000-pound houseboat that graced Holly Hill for four months finally hit the water Wednesday morning after three tugboats yanked and yanked and yanked, and freed the vessel from its sandy perch on a tiny island off Riverside Drive.

Philip Shapiro, chairman of the Ormond Beach Historical Society, at the Three Chimneys site on Granada Blvd.

Senate leaders inserted last-minute language in a budget bill Wednesday to immediately split the Lakeland campus of the University of South Florida into the state's 12th university.

The annual economic impact of the airport with two intersection runways for twin-engine general aviation aircraft is not just from tenants and businesses at the airport, but also includes indirect impact from arriving visitors, according to the latest report in 2010.

As soon as the permits for Ormond Beach's Andy Romano Beachfront Park are in hand, the bidding process for construction will begin, citizens learned Tuesday night.

She looked almost porcelain and very demure in her aqua-colored satin sheath, but the 23-year-old Melbourne visitor to the local Vietnamese New Year celebration Sunday was giddy with excitement.

PORT ORANGE: A Silver Sands Middle School student was hit while walking near the entrance to the school's bus loop.

A New Hampshire man wanted by police on child sex assault charges is in custody after a woman in Florida used an Internet search engine to check up on him.

Every Thursday for the last decade, brothers Richard and Gene Bass launched a boat at the same spot, intent on heading to their favorite fishing holes in either Lake Woodruff or Lake Monroe.

The Volusia County Sheriff's office is investigating the death of an 81-year-old man who fell into the Norris Dead River in DeLand.

DEA says purchases of the highly addictive pills by Florida doctors have gone down 97 percent from 2010 to 2011.

The French Consulate representative for Volusia and Flagler counties is seeking military veterans who were in France during World War II to say "thanks." Claude Berthoine of Ormond Beach, the consulate representative for Volusia, Flagler and St.

A ballot proposal that initially would cut local property taxes by about $570 million annually, but possibly much more later, cleared its first committee today in the Florida Legislature.

The turtle, named after Andre the Giant, was released in Ponce Inlet Tuesday afternoon.