Volusia County News

A jury recommended life without the possibility of parole for 30-year-old David Marrow and 31-year-old Barry Gallagher on Friday, and the judge followed the recommendation.

BEACON PHOTO/PAT HATFIELD Not my trees - " Clinton Van Cleef of Glenwood points to trees his grandfather planted in the Grand Avenue median in Glenwood many years ago.

The Florida Supreme Court has accepted the recommendation that Volusia County Judge Mary Jane Henderson be reprimanded for giving money, a cell phone and help buying a car to "a convicted felon ... who has a substance-abuse problem." The Judicial Qualifications Commission recommended the public reprimand last August after determining her ...

The Florida Supreme Court will publicly reprimand two county judges in separate ethics cases.

Imagine thinking you've won more than $160 million, only to have it taken away. It's the kind of thing that nightmare's are made of and a Daytona Beach man has been living it after hitting it big at Tampa's Hard Rock Casino.

Two men have been convicted of first-degree murder in the brutal beating and drowning of another man in Volusia County.

A Volusia County jury found two men guilty of first-degree murder Tuesday in the 2007 beating and drowning of an Ormond Beach man in the Halifax River.

The fire is in southern Volusia just north of Mims in a heavily wooded area east of Interstate 95.

Deputies arrested a DeLand woman Saturday morning who left a 4-year-old girl home alone while the woman was likely off on an overnight crack cocaine binge, Volusia County sheriff's officials said.

A motorcyclist leaving a Volusia County bar Sunday night was knocked off his bike after pulling in front of a pickup and killed when another vehicle ran him over in a hit-and-run, troopers said.

An Indiana man died and several other people were hospitalized after getting caught in strong Florida rip currents.

The Pet Vet Cruiser is a state-of-the-art mobile clinic that offers free and low-cost spay and neuter services for pets in the unincorporated areas of Volusia County.

Environmental enthusiasts are invited to enjoy Volusia County's conservation lands during free outdoor adventures sponsored by Volusia County's Land Acquisition and Management Division.

Deputies arrested 15 suspects today in an oxycodone ring run, for the most part, in several homes within blocks of each other in this small West Volusia city.

The owner and the operator of the Care Center of Ormond Beach was charged today with Medicaid fraud, practicing medicine without a license and neglecting an elderly person under his care.

A woman accused of yelling racial insults at a sheriff's deputy, spitting on him and urinating in his patrol car remains jailed in Volusia County on Thursday.

A registered sex offender is back in jail after police said he lured a young teen to his home, drugged him, and sexually assaulted him.

Officials in Volusia County, Fla., confirmed an Arkansas phone sex operator complained about prank calls from a county government line.

An officer with the Volusia County Beach Patrol, who was arrested last week on a warrant accusing him of unlawful sexual activity with an underage girl, has been given notice that the county plans to fire him.

Two men face charges for a May armed robbery in DeBary during which the pair had hoped to relieve a man of his poker winnings from an evening of playing in Daytona Beach.