Pierson News

Volusia County is known as an international center of racing, but folks in Pierson and Seville pride themselves on a different accolade -- "Fern Capital of the World." It's a place where leatherleaf fern grows inside shade tents.

Not much has changed from when it served as the city's Police Department. The desks are the same, so is the holding cell and the fingerprint stations.

Gingrich, joined by wife Callista , and Michael Reagan -the son of former president Ronald Reagan - addressed a small-but-vocal crowd of cheering supporters at the "Crossing The Finish Line" rally in a hotel ballroom near Orlando International Airport.

A north Volusia County man faces a charge of first-degree murder in a weekend shooting death, but he told deputy sheriffs the shooting was accidental.