South Daytona News

Loniee Hughes, who says she's a drug addict who shoots up Dilaudid, agreed to do some things for two people she met at a Daytona-area Taco Bell, police said.

"For the last 17 years, we've been doing everything to get involved with cruise lines, to sell our product cause it is huge volume," explained Phil Eddy at Beacon Fisheries.

A man was arrested after attempting to carjack two vehicles while fleeing police Saturday, according to South Daytona Beach police.

I have been a Guardian Ad Litem program volunteer in Brevard County for more than 19 years and have witnessed the abuse, abandonment or neglect of many of our children.

A young mother screams and cries in a call to 9-1-1 that her child is not breathing, but that woman, along with her boyfriend, would later be charged with aggravated child abuse in the death of the 4-year-old boy.

A 4-year-old South Daytona boy was covered with fingernail gouges, shoe impressions and cuts and had open sores on his buttocks when he died, the chief Volusia County medical examiner said.

A 4-year-old boy who police say suffered "tortuous" physical abuse at the hands of his mother and her boyfriend was found dead, and the South Daytona couple is charged with aggravated child abuse, officials say.

Police suspect a South Daytona woman who they caught with other people's mail in her purse was hoping to steal credit cards and other personal information, an official said.