South Daytona News

A circuit judge has thrown out a challenge to the city's Aug. 14 charter-amendment referendum that ultimately might decide the fate of South Daytona buying Florida Power & Light's electrical distribution system.

Retiring Port Orange City Manager Ken Parker was recognized with the Volusia League of Cities' highest honor in the group's annual awards ceremony last week.

City leaders passed an ordinance that would require monthly electric bills to stay the same if South Daytona buys Florida Power & Light's electrical distribution system.

The city took the first baby step forward Tuesday in reaching a land-swap agreement with the longtime master developer of the proposed Riverwalk.

PORT ORANGE: The City Council meets at 7 p.m. to discuss, among other things, a policy for allowing concessionaires in the Riverwalk area.

The political action committee that supports the city buying Florida Power & Light's electrical distribution system has gone to court to stop the city and the county's elections supervisor from putting a charter-amendment referendum on the Aug.

Pet Vet Cruiser announces June schedule Volusia County's Pet Vet Cruiser offers low-cost spaying and neutering services to residents of unincorporated parts of the county and the cities of DeLand and South Daytona.

Volusia County is offering Ponce Inlet and Edgewater the option to run their own ambulances -- part of a six-month "pilot program" to test how municipalities can fit into the countywide emergency transport system Volusia took over last year.

A Port Orange chiropractor was arrested after his girlfriend told police he tried to tie her down with plastic zipties, according to an arrest report.

Police are awaiting toxicology test results to determine what killed a Bethune-Cookman University band member who passed out at a weekend house party, a police spokesman said Monday.

Nearly two years after the bodies of elderly Volusia County residents Goldie Robinson and Arthur Sheldon were found in a South Daytona yard, a medical examiner Monday ruled their deaths a homicide.

Bernadette Reeves often heard people predict her daughter, Tersah Fields, would become a model because she is 5 feet, 8 inches tall, with a small frame.