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Feds probe DeLand Housing Authority

DELTONA -- Federal officials are investigating the DeLand Housing Authority to determine if the agency violated federal laws when it denied assistance to a Deltona man disabled by dementia. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's Miami ...

From PATRICIO G. BALONA, Daytona Beach News-Journal,  24 Nov 2009

Spiritualist camp celebrates 115 years

CASSADAGA -- The camp where people say they make contact with their loved ones in the afterlife is celebrating its 115th birthday with renaming activities this weekend. The Cassadaga Spiritualist Camp founded in 1894 by George Colby plans its quarterly ...

From PATRICIO G. BALONA, Daytona Beach News-Journal,  21 Nov 2009

Help sought in hit-and-run 'outbreak'

ORLANDO -- In the final chapter of their lives, John Eaton and Kevin Hill shared something in common. Both motorcyclists died tragic deaths in separate crashes when, after an initial wreck, a second motorist in each case ran them over and left them to ...

From PATRICIO G. BALONA, Daytona Beach News-Journal,  20 Nov 2009

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Range adds real gunbattle features for officer training

DAYTONA BEACH -- It's a range designed to test the stamina and the marksmanship of law enforcement officers. But most of all, it's a facility intended to heighten the officer's awareness of the terrain and available cover when he or she rushes into a ...

From PATRICIO G. BALONA, Daytona Beach News-Journal,  19 Nov 2009

2 charged with sexual battery of young girl

Two Deltona men accused of sexually molesting an 8-year-old girl have been arrested, with one picked up in Nevada and the other in DeLand, authorities said. Jared Rashad Burgess, 19, and John Kenneth Sanders, 22, are each charged with sexual battery ...

From PATRICIO G. BALONA, Daytona Beach News-Journal,  18 Nov 2009

Estranged husband charged with Orange City arson

An Orange City man has been jailed on a charge of setting his estranged wife's mobile home on fire, authorities said. Fernando Villena, 34, was arrested Thursday and charged with second-degree arson. He was being held Monday in the Volusia County ...

From PATRICIO G. BALONA, Daytona Beach News-Journal,  17 Nov 2009

Housing discrimination suit distresses family

DELTONA -- When Juan Ortega's dementia worsened and he frightened his wife in their home one day with a machete, his daughter knew her mother needed help caring for him. So, Catherine Ortega, a nurse, and her mother, Antonia Velez, went to the DeLand ...

From PATRICIO G. BALONA, Daytona Beach News-Journal,  16 Nov 2009

Jury: DeLand car dealer guilty of fixing cash deposits

A DeLand car dealer faces up to 515 years in federal prison after a federal jury found him guilty Friday of purposely making deposits of less than $10,000 to avoid making a report to the U.S. government. Lucio Ramirez, 45, of Colima Auto Sales at 202 ...

From PATRICIO G. BALONA, Daytona Beach News-Journal,  14 Nov 2009

Former housing official sentenced for theft

A former DeLand Housing Authority assistant director was sentenced to three years in prison Thursday for stealing more than $320,000 from the agency. The sentence was handed to Juanita Cruz, 39, of DeLand by Judge Mary S. Scriven in U.S. District ...

From PATRICIO G. BALONA, Daytona Beach News-Journal,  13 Nov 2009

Food delivaryman robbed in New Smyrna Beach

Police say two men robbed a Chinese food deliveryman of money and the meals he was delivering in New Smyrna Beach. The employee, Charles Aidan Arnold, 24, was delivering for China Restaurant on Third Avenue, according to a New Smyrna Beach police ...

From PATRICIO G. BALONA, Daytona Beach News-Journal,  13 Nov 2009

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