Deltona News

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.

A 24-year-old man was arrested Wednesday for a failed robbery attempt at a Deltona store.

Spirit Elementary School fifth-graders will have a chance to be part of history when the space shuttle Atlantis launches this fall for a rendezvous with the international space station.

Volusia and Flagler counties' health departments had the best turnout Saturday for their free swine-flu vaccination clinics since starting the free inoculation programs in October.

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

Sunday offers a chance to see the new Lyonia Environmental Center for free from 1 to 5 p.m. in honor of Deltona Days.

BEACON PHOTO/PAT HATFIELD Looking for solutions - At an Oct. 22 workshop set up by Volusia County Environmental Manager Steve Kintner, representatives from local governments around the county and other interested people met with representatives of the St.

PHOTO COURTESY RYAN RINALDO Heapin' helpings of help - Deltona High School Student Government Association President Ryan Rinaldo and Vice President Denise Fierro show the fruits - and vegetables - of their labors.

The Hernando School Board has approved funding for modular concrete buildings, called concretables, to add more classroom space and reduce the number of portables at the school.

Poincianaville? If this were baseball, the debate over whether Poinciana should become a city is just past the National Anthem.

Nov. 5, 2009 Vickie Pleus, APR, CPRC Community Information Specialist County Council members to attend Deltona workshop Nov.

The Volusia County School Board has suspended a Deltona Middle School paraprofessional for three days without pay after he was accused of attempting to force a piece of pizza on a student.

A healthcare reform discussion panel, sponsored by the Democratic Club of Southwest Volusia, will be held 7 p.m. Thursday.

For two weeks, 68-year-old Ruben Ortiz Columbie, a Baptist missionary in Cuba, lingered in a Cuban jail, wondering what he had done wrong and with no way of knowing when, or if, he would be freed.

More than a dozen residents of southwest Volusia County, most of them in the small city of DeBary , were arrested Friday as the Volusia County Sheriff's Office dismantled a ring dealing in fraudulently obtained prescription painkillers.

The British citizen killed in a traffic crash this week was hosting his friends from Wallasey, England, on a golf vacation in Daytona Beach, his sister said.

The board, which meets at 4 p.m. at the DeLand Administrative Complex, 200 N. Clara Ave., DeLand is scheduled to approve improvement plans for 78 elementary, middle, high, alternative and charter schools.

Police this afternoon identified the pedestrian struck and killed overnight in an Orange City crash.

The Volusia County Sheriff's Office is investigating the case of a Deltona woman who died at her home after a face-lift and chin liposuction by a Central Florida cosmetic surgeon, a sheriff's spokesman said.

The Deltona Regional Library will offer a variety of educational and entertainment programs for people of all ages in November.