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Port Orange truck driver killed in crash on Florida Turnpike

A Port Orange man was killed in a crash involving two tractor trailers Friday night on Florida's Turnpike in Orlando, the Florida Highway Patrol said Saturday. Carl W. Van Wasshnova, 54, was driving a semitrailer loaded with hardware store products ...

From RON HURTIBISE, Daytona Beach News-Journal,  15 Nov 2009
Related Topics: FedEx

These tickets may surprise you

Everyone glances at their speedometer when they see a patrol car on the side of the road. And you know you can get pulled over for driving without a license plate, or with only one headlight. But deep in the list of Florida motor vehicle laws are some ...

From RON HURTIBISE, Daytona Beach News-Journal,  13 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Sony

Tip, smell snag Daytona men for pot in Illinois

An anonymous tip and an odor of marijuana led Illinois authorities to charge two Daytona Beach men after finding more than 40 pounds of pot in their car, an Illinois newspaper reported. One of the men told a deputy he planned to deliver the weed ...

From RON HURTIBISE, Daytona Beach News-Journal,  1 Nov 2009

Ag industry hears from gubernatorial hopefuls

DAYTONA BEACH -- Voters won't cast ballots for Florida's next governor for another year, but the race to succeed Charlie Crist is already considered one of the nation's hottest. So the two major party frontrunners weren't going to miss the chance for ...

From RON HURTIBISE, Daytona Beach News-Journal,  30 Oct 2009
Related Topics: University of South Florida,  Bill McCollum,  Charlie Crist,  U.S. Republican Party,  U.S. Democratic Party

FHP: Woman's car strikes, kills injured man in roadway

Charges are pending against an Apopka woman who, despite warnings from bystanders to avoid an injured motorcyclist lying in State Road 415, failed to take evasive action before running over and killing the man, a Florida Highway Patrol spokeswoman said ...

From RON HURTIBISE, Daytona Beach News-Journal,  25 Oct 2009

Mother accused in sex case charged with witness tampering

PALM COAST -- The 82-year-old mother of a man accused in a bizarre child porn and sex case was charged with witness tampering after the victim reported being threatened following a court hearing this week. The victim, who was 15 at the time of the 2005 ...

From RON HURTIBISE, Daytona Beach News-Journal,  25 Oct 2009

Blind pedestrians gather for driver awareness

Holly Idler helps a blindfolded County Chairman Frank Bruno cross the street in Holly Hill on Friday for White Cane Awareness Day, designed to educate drivers about those with sight and mobility limitations. Whenever a blind or mobility-impaired ...

From RON HURTIBISE, Daytona Beach News-Journal,  10 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Frank Bruno,  Halifax Corp

Accident claims life of Deltona motorcyclist

A 53-year-old Deltona motorcyclist died after he ran a red light, struck a vehicle that was turning, and landed on the pavement in a Seminole County intersection, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. David Alan Nicodemus was driving his 1979 Harley ...

From RON HURTIBISE, Daytona Beach News-Journal,  4 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Mercury,  Henry James

Officers renew focus on wearing seat belts

Editor's note: This article was planned before Saturday's tragic crash on Interstate 95. That crash underscores law enforcement officers' message in the story that seat belts prevent ejection and help save lives. DAYTONA BEACH -- Sitting at a red light ...

From RON HURTIBISE, Daytona Beach News-Journal,  4 Oct 2009
Related Topics: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

Suspects sought in home invasion, machete attack

DAYTONA BEACH -- Police are investigating a home invasion early Saturday morning by four to six armed men who sent a disabled man to the hospital with machete cuts. The attack, believed to be drug-related, occurred at 1:30 a.m. Saturday at a house at 61 ...

From ANNE GEGGIS AND RON HURTIBISE, Daytona Beach News-Journal,  20 Sep 2009

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