Port Orange News

The man who led a deadly 7-hour SWAT standoff at a Deerfield Beach RV park shot an elderly stranger before bursting into the home and stabbing his own wife, two sons and himself, authorities said Friday.

A new thoroughfare that will connect Port Orange and New Smyrna Beach is a step closer to reality, with Volusia County approving a $9.3 million agreement with a developer Thursday to get the stalled project started.

Port Orange's longtime public works director could be fired after his teenage son and a friend were arrested on charges they stole city property, officials said.

Gracia, a partner in the Port Orange-based law firm of Rue & Ziffra, filed a lawsuit challenging a $1 per page fee for copies of his clients' medical records from Health Information Professionals Inc., an Orlando-based health care information company.

Dayonta Beach police have arrested a father and son in connection to a robbery at an American Legion last month, resulting in several vintage guns being stolen.

A 16-year-old's alleged thefts from Port Orange Public Works have his father, director Warren Pike, in hot water.

After years of back and forth the City Council appears once again to be back on track to bring development to the Riverwalk property.

Volusia County parents, teachers and local officials are bringing in their ideas and concerns on how to keep students safe walking to and from school at a packed meeting 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.

The 19-year-old sophomore doesn't think it will happen while he's a student, but he's on the front lines of making the university's long-term goal a reality by building and testing rockets and their engines.

As a Daytona Beach policeman for 20 years, Robert H. Palmer earned the reputation of being firm, but fair, a tough taskmaster who expected the best from all of the department's officers.

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

A Volusia County pig farmer said people are willing to anything to make ends meet in a tough economy, but stealing his livestock is a new low.

A Port Orange mother was arrested after she was accused of beating her daughter with a baseball bat, according to ClickOrlando.com Donna J. Letourneau, 52, was arrested and charged with aggravated child abuse Tuesday at her home on Sparton Avenue after police said a verbal fight escalated to a physical fight.

In a 4-1 vote, the City Council agreed to eliminate an 18-foot-wide median, narrow a sidewalk and require the developers of the recently approved Altamira Shopping Village to increase the height of a brick wall from 6 to 10 feet and add vegetation to help buffer traffic noise for nearby homeowners.

Volusia County schools earned mixed results Monday on a new state report card ranking the performance of all Florida public schools, with two local elementary schools rated in the top 10 percent and others finishing near the bottom.

The City Council narrowly approved Altamira Shopping Village recently, but nearby residents are upset about what a planned four-lane Yorktowne Boulevard extension would do to their heavily wooded neighborhood.

Wednesday marks two years since Laurel Lea Rogers walked out of her mother's house and was never seen again.

A former Port Orange police officer faces up to 30 years in prison after an appeals court reversed a decision to throw out a jury verdict against him.

Just because partnering with another hospital didn't work the first time doesn't mean Bert Fish Medical Center's governing board isn't willing to try again.