Deland News

BEACON PHOTO/DEB VAN PATTEN Changing hands - Family Book Shop owner Judy Mathys, left, has sold the store to longtime customer Cindy Raible, right.

BEACON PHOTO/BARB SHEPHERD Part of the process a ' Audience members, many of them Downtown DeLand merchants and workers attending their first City Commission meeting Nov.

BEACON PHOTO/MARSHA MCLAUGHLIN DeLand Little League a ' DeLand Little League was in full-swing on it's 2008 Christmas float.

PHOTO COURTESY DAVID JANIEC On the way a ' The Volusia County Sheriff's Office Air 1 helicopter lifts off with a passenger on board after a truck and motorcycle collision in Downtown DeLand Wednesday afternoon.

Two Deltona men accused of sexually molesting an 8-year-old girl have been arrested, with one picked up in Nevada and the other in DeLand, authorities said.

Discover DeLand is a city committee devoted to increasing the DeLand area's appeal as a tourism destination.

BEACON FILE PHOTO Losing a tenant - Sands Theater Center has given notice it will move from the Cultural Arts Center at 600 N. Woodland Blvd.

A DeLand car dealer faces up to 515 years in federal prison after a federal jury found him guilty today of purposely making deposits of less than $10,000 to avoid making a report to the U.S. government.

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The world isn't going to end in 2012. You wouldn't know it to look at the movie "2012," or online, where doom and "end times" theories roam free.

A series of community meetings to begin redrawing elementary school attendance zones in the DeLand area to prepare for the opening of a new school in August are scheduled next week.

At the same time the Anti*Pop Music Festival is kicking into high gear in Orlando, another worthy musical confab will be unfolding about 40 miles east along Interstate 4 . The DeLand Original Music Festival , now in its ninth year, will feature more than 100 acts, with a pleasing concentration of roots and Americana-oriented bands in the mix.

A gunman killed one and injured five, police said, in a shooting Friday at the Orlando offices of an engineering firm where the suspect was let go more than two years ago.

BEACON PHOTO/JENNIFER HORTON Working to bring IDignity to DeLand - Clockwise from left are Patti Rausch, Michael Dippy, Missy Kelly, Tony Schefstad and Carolyn Wilson, who attended a round-table discussion recently at The Beacon.

An Illinois motorcyclist injured in a DeLand crash with a car last month has died, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.

Florida Hospital DeLand 's new tobacco-free policy will go into effect Nov. 19, prohibiting any use of tobacco products by employees, physicians, visitors, patients, volunteers, vendors and medical staff anywhere on the hospital campus or property.

A Daytona State College student got mad when his girlfriend handed him his clothes through a window and closed it, so he set the front of her apartment on fire early this morning, DeLand police said.

Reynolds, Smith and Hills, the architectural/engineering firm whose Orlando office was targeted in today's shooting, has a Volusia County office and has done work for many local governmental agencies.

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

Julie Hubbard , 44, was stopped by a sheriff's deputy in DeLand, Fla., after making an illegal left turn.