Daytona Beach News

Photo Credit: AP PHOTO This NOAA satellite image taken Thursday, Aug. 21, 2008 at 1:45 a.m. EDT shows Tropical Storm Fay about 35 miles southeast of Daytona Beach Florida.

BULLETIN TROPICAL STORM FAY INTERMEDIATE ADVISORY NUMBER 21A NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL AL062008 800 PM EDT WED AUG 20 2008 ...FAY BACK OVER WATER AND SLIGHTLY STRONGER... A TROPICAL STORM ...

The rain is still falling in Daytona Beach thanks to Tropical Storm Fay, but some locals like Rachel Gardner don't seem too concerned.

Beach management, a long dormant issue, again is in the news. Officials in Daytona Beach have floated the idea of taking over beach duties that are now the county's job.

Daytona Beach police are seeking several suspects after a 77-year-old man was injured during a shootout Monday in his neighborhood, authorities said.

Cornelius Baker, 21, of Bunnell, is on trial in the kidnapping of Elizabeth Uptagrafft, 56, from her Daytona Beach home on Michigan Avenue and killing her on Jan.

A 31-year-old man pleaded guilty Thursday to DUI manslaughter and other charges stemming from a 2007 crash on Riverside Drive that killed a woman, saving himself the possibility of a life sentence.

The unemployment crisis in the Daytona Beach area has worsened according to the latest numbers from the Florida Agency for Workforce Innovation. Today, the Daytona Beach News Journal reported that this was the worst unemployment situation since the recession of 1992 (See Local workers losing jobs, Unemployment worst since 1992). Rick Michael, the Volusia County Director of Economic Development, said that the jobless rate seems bleaker that it really is partly because spouses and elderly had re-entered the work force as a result of increasing concern over family budgets. Mr. Michael is right on that point. The economic depression of the Daytona Beach area is palpable anywhere you go, and while political supporters have reaped huge benefits in selling overvalued assets to the City (See City of Daytona Beach buys 20-foot strip of land from campaign financer for $320,955 ) the population has suffered. Even the city's own elected Commissioners have personally benefited over the largesse. Take for example Commissioner Rick Shiver's sale of his personal residence to the City for over twice its just value, which his fellow Commissioners supported unanimously.

Before dawn. I saw a shooting star cut across Orion's belt and sensed an air of excitement as hundreds gathered on the taxiway at Spruce Creek Fly-In. I was there before 6 a.m. Tuesday for the inaugural Daytona ...

Volusia and Flagler counties have nearly 16,000 seniors or disabled residents who have not yet filed for the Economic Stimulus Payment with the Internal Revenue Service.

A review panel has nominated seven judges and a lawyer for two Florida Supreme Court openings.

The Taco Bell that was the site of a deadly robbery more than a decade ago was struck by three armed teenagers -- one of whom previously worked at the eatery -- with help from a current employee, police said ...

Police are looking for a 17-year-old armed robbery suspect who, along with two other teens, held up a Taco Bell on Beville Road, police said this morning.

Without a witness to the murders, Sheriff Alex Littlefied had little to go on. Forensic science, in 1948, was rudimentary in the analysis of ballistics, fibers and fingerprints; DNA was still five years away ...

Stephen L. Boyles, retired circuit judge and longtime prosecutor, died Saturday of cancer at Halifax Health Care Center in Daytona Beach.

In a story that was previously exposed by The Daytona Post, The News Journal Newspaper commented that Among area cities, Daytona Beach pays its department heads more in 13 categories, and even pays more than Delray Beach, Gainesville and Volusia County.

In all, Daytona Beach department heads are some of the highest paid around. This in a city that has been mired in poverty and financial difficulties and where the per capita income in under $18,000 a year. Daytona Beach commissioners defended the salaries they approved claiming they were "well-deserved".

An appeals court has denied a motion to lower the bond for the mother of a missing central Florida girl.

There's barely enough room at the front counter for all the people who have pushed through the door, sniffing in all the sweet smell of glaze a nose can hold.

A night of beer guzzling, vulgar language and inappropriate touching ended the 21-year career of a police lieutenant, an internal affairs investigation shows.

WILMINGTON, Del. For the sixth consecutive year, DuPont Performance Coatings has received a "Business Partner Award of Excellence" from Southeast Toyota Distributors, LLC .