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Sheriff's teams gather to train

ORMOND BEACH -- A doctor and a nurse held at shotgun point, their captor threatening to take everyone out if cops didn't back off. Robots wheeled around a hospital parking lot on the ready to detonate a bomb, if necessary. The scenarios were make ...

From JULIE MURPHY, Daytona Beach News-Journal,  23 Nov 2009

Relay rolls from Clearwater to Daytona Beach

Running 202 miles in a day and a half is no jog through the park, but members of two local teams who ran a relay from Clearwater to Daytona Beach swear they aren't crazy. "There are any number of people who can run 15 or 20 miles in a weekend," said ...

From JULIE MURPHY, Daytona Beach News-Journal,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Fantastic Four

For families of missing, learning fate still matters

DAYTONA BEACH -- A day, a week, a month, a year, a decade or more. When a child disappears, it feels like an eternity for the loved ones left in the lurch. As tragic as the death is of 7-year-old Somer Thompson of Orange Park -- the girl who ...

From JULIE MURPHY, Daytona Beach News-Journal,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Jaycee Dugard

Marshal: Boot Hill fire arson

Someone intentionally set the fire that raced through the Boot Hill Saloon's Ormond Beach location, the state Fire Marshal's Office said Friday. State investigator Bill Newman said remnants of an accelerant were found at the scene at 1081 N. U.S. 1, ...

From LYDA LONGA AND JULIE MURPHY, Daytona Beach News-Journal,  14 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Ford Motor Company,  John Fisher

Fire damages Boot Hill Saloon in Ormond

ORMOND BEACH -- A blaze shooting out of the back of the Boot Hill Saloon on North U.S. 1 Thursday night destroyed about half of the building, officials said. "It had the potential to become a major fire, because of the size and intensity of the fire ...

From JULIE MURPHY, Daytona Beach News-Journal,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: John Fisher

Shark bites surfer near south jetty

A Lake Mary surfer was the victim of mistaken identity Wednesday afternoon when a 4-foot shark grabbed his right leg off New Smyrna Beach -- the eighth shark bite of the year, officials said. The 18-year-old man, who was not identified by the Volusia ...

From JULIE MURPHY, Daytona Beach News-Journal,  12 Nov 2009

Great white gives local surfer scare in California

Surfing with sharks isn't new to Eric Geiselman, who hails from the shark bite capital of the world, but nothing here could have prepared him for the great white that charged him -- splitting his board in two -- while surfing in California. Geiselman, 2 ...

From JULIE MURPHY, Daytona Beach News-Journal,  8 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Eric Geiselman

K-9s get whiff of annual exam

DAYTONA BEACH -- Buck weaves right and left, points his nose straight up to the tall windows of a mini-van, trots, spins, rounds the corner of the van and pulls his handler to the front wheel well. The yellow Labrador turns off his energy as though it ...

From JULIE MURPHY, Daytona Beach News-Journal,  6 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Federal Bureau of Investigation,  Greg Taylor

Truck description in fatal hit-and-run released

The Florida Highway Patrol released information Tuesday about the hit-and-run truck officials say ran over and killed a DeLand motorcyclist. John C. Eaton, 46, was thrown from his motorcycle after being rear-ended about 6:45 p.m. Sunday on U.S. 17 near ...

From JULIE MURPHY, Daytona Beach News-Journal,  4 Nov 2009

Official: Crack binge brings child neglect charge

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. Patricia Reynolds, 39, was arrested after deputies ...

From JULIE MURPHY, Daytona Beach News-Journal,  1 Nov 2009

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