Volusia County News

Extension plans programs for home gardeners The University of Florida/Volusia County Extension will help you cultivate your green thumb during three presentations on Wednesday, June 20.

The bonds are expected to sell the week of June 4 via negotiation. Proceeds will be used to refund the series 2003 bonds for savings.

As Sharon Mandt and her husband, Petter, and other local residents who endured Hurricane Andrew will attest, it only takes one hurricane to change your life forever.

Two Deltona men were arrested Saturday after allegedly using gummy-flavored vodka to get a 13-year-old boy drunk, according to an arrest report and The News Journal .

Cody Cochran, second from left, stands with his sister, Margo, mother, Erika, father, Ronnie, and brother Ronnie III.

A New Smyrna Beach woman on the run from law enforcement for what prosecutors say was her role in the 2011 murder of a confidential drug informant claims the charges against her are false.

A Lake Mary doctor was arrested on hit-and-run charges after he hit a motorcyclist in Volusia County and then left the scene, authorities said.

A 49-year-old Sarasota man faces as much as 25 years in prison after pleading guilty Wednesday to robbing a Volusia County bank and three other banks, federal officials say.

A Palm Coast man arrested on a charge of cruelty to animals bit the lips off one kitten and choked another to death, deputies say.

A central Florida family is grateful after a 22-year-old sheriff's deputy saved a 1-year-old boy who had fallen into a backyard swimming pool.

Mikenzie Stewart, 8, and Michael Holler, 11, play basketball with friends and family in the street with a temporary basketball backboard and net that Arthur Ottesen attached to his mailbox.

In Volusia and Flagler counties , hoteliers said business for them was either the same or slightly down from last year's Memorial Day weekend.

In a last-minute jousting session in the Florida Senate in March, lawmakers finally approved the personal injury protection reform to cut down on car insurance fraud.

About 300 employees at a Holly Hill electronics manufacturer have been evacuated this morning after a bomb threat, police said.

West Volusia's community newspaper of DeLand, Orange City, Deltona, Enterprise, DeBary, Lake Helen, DeLeon Springs, Glenwood, Pierson, Cassadaga, Seville and Barberville in Florida.

Two days after slamming into northeast Florida, Beryl strengthened into a tropical storm again as it prepared to reenter the Atlantic Wednesday, spreading heavy rain and blustery winds along the coast of the Carolinas and Georgia.

A longstanding critic of the Gateway Center for the Arts recently won acquittal at a trial where faced a trespassing charge.

Two unemployed Deltona men were arrested and charged with getting a 13-year-old boy drunk with gummy-flavored vodka, Volusia County sheriff's investigators said Tuesday.

Two DeLand men stopped for not wearing their seat belts were arrested after they were found with methamphetamine materials and marijuana, Volusia County sheriff's deputies said.

People gather outside the Ocean Center in Daytona Beach as Pamela Dahl uses gold sissors to cut a red ribbon officially starting The Forida Tea Party Convention last November.