Orange City News

The church came to be thanks to a couple who attended DeLand Christian Church. The John Cannons became aware that the Mackle brothers were going to start a new community in the wilderness that is now Deltona and that property would be set aside to be given to churches.

Angela Deleon wrote checks to pay off debts from the account of Iron Workers Local 808.

City commissioners tabled an ordinance Monday that would have made it a crime to sleep on benches, sidewalks and other public rights-of-way in DeLand.

Three Florida women were arrested on Friday after they allegedly slapped, kicked, and choked a 14-year-old girl.

The SunRail heads toward and past the Debary station on a trial run in December 2013.

Herbster Evangelistic Team - The Herbster Evangelistic Team will be speaking and singing at the 11 a.m. and 6 p.m. services Sunday, March 2, and at 7 p.m. Monday-Wednesday, March 3-5, at Open Bible Baptist Church in Orange City.

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

Luis Toledo's Deltona neighbor was considered a suspect early on in the deaths of Toledo's wife and her two children, according to new documents released Tuesday by the State Attorney's Office.

The debate over how strictly to regulate fertilizer in Volusia County stalled Thursday as the County Council found itself split on whether to mimic state standards in a local law or pursue a far more aggressive attack on the everyday chemicals scientists say are seeping into waterways throughout Florida.

"I'm always looking for Mustangs," said Floridian, Kerry Kufner. "I was looking for something to make a clone Shelby, or what they now call a tribute Shelby."

By DINAH VOYLES PULVER and Andrew Gant dinah.pulver@news-jrnl.com andrew.gant@news-jrnl.com Wed, 19 Feb 2014 15:59:46 EST A rising environmental crisis in waterways in Volusia County and across Florida has the Volusia County Council considering steps to limit the use of fertilizers that produce harmful chemical runoff.

Construction of what Mayor Tom Laputka calls "our Central Park" is expected to start soon and be completed later this year, with an expansion maybe not far behind.

Call 386-469-9409. 6:15-7:15 a.m. registration, 7:30 a.m. chip-timed race start, 8:30 a.m. free Kids Run, at Deltona Middle School, 250 Enterprise Road.

An old disagreement between two Orange City teens left one with a gunshot wound to the thigh early Friday, an Orange City police official said.

The Food Network is taping an episode of chef Robert Irvine's Restaurant: Impossible Feb. 18 and 19 at Bumbino's Italian Restaurant, 2631 Enterprise Road in Orange City.

A Volusia County sheriff's deputy testified Wednesday that he was looking for a teenage robbery suspect near Orange City when the teenager opened fire on him just before a police dog plunged its teeth into shooter.

Three manatees are back in the waters of the St. Johns River after spending a few weeks in rehabilitation at SeaWorld Orlando.

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

Metal scrappers be warned, John West may be waiting with his gun if you try to steal from his West Volusia business.

Fewer people were killed on area roads and highways last year than in 2012, but Interstate 95 remained the deadliest stretch of roadway.