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A 19-year-old Deltona man was killed just after midnight Saturday when he lost control of the pickup he was driving at a curve on State Road 15 just north of Seville, authorities said.

BEACON FILE PHOTO Votran wants you - Higher costs - especially for fuel - and uncertainties about future funding are forcing Volusia County leaders to consider revamping the county's bus system, including ...

No one was prepared for the devastation and chaos brought by the three hurricanes that hit Volusia County in 2004.

Volusia tops state average in reading By LINDA TRIMBLE Education Writer DAYTONA BEACH -- Volusia County's third-grade reading and math FCAT scores were the highest ever this year, with three-quarters of ...

Although they collected far less food than the larger post offices in West Volusia, the postal workers in Pierson and Seville are feeling like winners after the 2008 Help Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive May 10.

BEACON PHOTO/AL EVERSON Coming up dry? - ' Volusia County Groundwater Program Manager Tom Carey shows the equipment he uses to take monthly readings at 46 monitoring wells around the county.

“Anyone who causes a wildfire, whether intentionally or through carelessness, may be held responsible for the costs of extinguishing it and for whatever damages the fire may cause”

IMAGE COURTESY COUNTY OF VOLUSIA Already burned - ' The areas outlined in red on this map show nearly 800 acres already burned near Daytona Beach, in a fire that began May 11 in the LPGA subdivision. via DeLand-Deltona Beacon News

The Children and Families Advisory Board will meet at 9 a.m. Tuesday, May 27, in the first-floor training rooms of the Thomas C. Kelly Administration Center, 123 W. Indiana Ave., DeLand. via Volusia

“We put in a letter of interest for Boston Avenue”

BEACON PHOTO/MARSHA MCLAUGHLIN Future center for homeless? - ' Interfaith Caregivers, a coalition of religious organizations in the DeLand area, will write a letter of interest to the Volusia County School ... via DeLand-Deltona Beacon News

Volusia County drivers may encounter a new highway obstacle Monday and Tuesday as four portable classrooms are moved across the county to Pierson Elementary. via The News-Journal

“I immediately went from a daughter panicking to a person trained to deal with these situations.”

Wearing green hard hats and bright yellow vests, a group of Hispanic volunteers rushed an unconscious man from a building after a natural disaster damaged the area. via Daytona Beach News-Journal Online

“We'd love to partner with one of the (closing) schools, namely Samsula or Bonner.”

A long-running legal battle is over just in time to give a firm that operates three Flagler County charter schools a shot at taking over one of the Volusia public schools that will close in June. via The News-Journal

Now that the School Board has voted to close three elementary schools in June, Volusia school officials are wasting no time in moving forward with plans to relocate students. via The News-Journal

The Volusia County School Board will hold a special meeting at 6 p.m. Monday in the auditorium of DeLand High School, 800 N. Hill Ave., to take a final vote on the closing of seven schools. via The Orlando Sentinel

“I'll fight till the bitter end”

Hundreds of school supporters cried, clapped and stomped their feet Saturday as they delivered impassioned pleas to keep the four local schools from closing. via The News-Journal

“I don't think any of those board members have heart strings to any of those schools about to be closed.”

Gone but not forgotten - The 2007 graduating class of Boston Avenue School is pictured here. via DeLand-Deltona Beacon News

“They really don't have our children's best interest at heart.”

The Volusia County School Board on Tuesday night decided to close seven small, mostly rural schools, sending angry parents streaming from the auditorium at DeLand High School -- some yelling or in tears. via The Orlando Sentinel

“Dear Mr. President, Ples, ples help us to save the scol. Wer very happy. Trie to cep the scol open. Trie trie hre up. Ples and than u.”

George Kuhn scrawled a shaky handwritten plea on fat lined paper directly to President Bush: "Dear Mr. via The News-Journal

“They've already gone through the trauma of being separated from their mothers. Now, they'll be going through a second trauma of being separated from their teachers”

In an attempt to save the school they love, about a dozen parents gathered at Seville Elementary School on Wednesday to come up with plans to convince the School Board to keep the school open. via The News-Journal

All three men found dead Saturday morning in an after-hours club outside Palatka were shot in the head, the Putnam County Sheriff's Office and medical examiner reported Monday. via The Florida Times Union