Pierson News

Thieves walk off with ATM from Daytona hotel lobby Increase in prescription drug deaths reported Rattlesnake bite sends Pierson man to hospital 3 hospitalized after jet reporting smoke aboard makes unscheduled landing at Daytona Property values Taxable property values have plummeted in Volusia County in the past year, according to preliminary ...

A Pierson man was rushed to a Daytona Beach hospital after he was bitten by a rattlesnake this morning, authorities said.

Tallahassee resident Sarah Edwards has been awarded the Stetson University Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award, the university's top leadership honor for graduating seniors.

They are two short music videos of students role playing to show the effects of social ills like discrimination, violence and drunken driving.

Whether you're a boy from Puerto Rico or Pennsylvania, there's something cool about a "blood circle." That dangerous-sounding geometry is what 8-year-old Elian Seda was demonstrating recently at a meeting of Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts in Deltona.

With revenue forecasts and enrollment continuing to slide, Volusia County school officials looked Tuesday at postponing or eliminating a long list of construction projects over the next five years.

More than 60 firefighters and other public safety personnel continue to fight the fire threatening Lake Harney Woods subdivision in southern Volusia County.

Cuts -- to positions, overtime hours or elsewhere -- could be in the offing for the fire department that serves unincorporated Volusia County and some cities.

In conjunction with National River Cleanup Week, the 13th annual St. Johns River Cleanup will begin at 8 a.m., Saturday, June 6. Boaters, scouts, civic organizations, environmental groups, businesses and individual volunteers are encouraged to help clean up the St.

Dedication to serving the county's citizens is the theme connecting the Volusia County Sheriff's Office Employees of the 1st Quarter 2009 winners.

RowdyBall, the 12-year-old youth baseball travel team from the DeLand and Pierson area, recorded three recent victories to boost their season mark to 16-8. The Rowdies rapped out 10 hits en route to a 13-8 win over the West Volusia Attack.

Tyla Tyus was one of only 45 high school seniors in both Volusia and Flagler counties to receive the Medallion of Excellence Award.

For many, Tuesday will be just another day. But for Academies of Excellence executive director Doug Jackson, it's the day he'll go before the Flagler School Board to argue why it should renew the charters of two of his schools -- Cornerstone Elementary and Summit Academy Middle.

A state administrative-law judge heard five days of testimony about Wal-Mart's plan for a mammoth distribution center just north of Pierson, but he won't rule soon on whether the center should be allowed.

BEACON PHOTO/JEN HORTON Lesson in democracy a ' McCulley Jones urges government spenders not to indebt her before shea TMs even old enough to earn money.

BEACON PHOTO/BARB SHEPHERD Chief on the scene a ' DeLand Police Chief Ed Overman, at right, confers with police officers after arriving on the scene of a shooting in Downtown DeLand that occurred just after midnight Tuesday, April 14, outside Half-Time Sports Bar.

BEACON FILE PHOTO Winds at fault a ' Winds like the ones that brought down this power pole last summer are apparently the culprit in power outages around West Volusia, including north DeLand and the Stetson University campus, today.

This year's housing draws are even more fraught with tension than usual, as a confluence of factors - from the economic downturn to college renovations - have led to a housing crunch for rising juniors.

In this economy, with so many people hungry for work, Volusia County has joined the fight to chase away a big business.

Reporting non-emergency crimes such as theft and vandalism to the Volusia County Sheriff's Office can now be done from the comfort, convenience and privacy of a computer.