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Alliances card helps illegal immigrants obtain health care

PIERSON -- It's just a 3-inch by 1 1/2-inch piece of plastic. But for hundreds of immigrants unable to get a Florida identification card, it's literally a passport to survival because it opens the door to good health care. "It's very difficult to get ...

From ROSA RAMIREZ, Daytona Beach News-Journal,  20 Jun 2008

Hispanic leaders work to improve emergency communications

PIERSON -- No one was prepared for the devastation and chaos brought by the three hurricanes that hit Volusia County in 2004. People spent days and weeks without potable water and electricity. And when assistance finally arrived, it came later than it ...

From ROSA RAMIREZ, Daytona Beach News-Journal,  13 Jun 2008

Art of home-selling gets creative

Buy a house. Get a new Nissan to put in the garage. That's what Michelle Herrera, owner of a luxurious three-bedroom house, was offering potential buyers during an open house Saturday at the Palm Coast Plantation. From free hair salon services and male ...

From ROSA RAMIREZ, Daytona Beach News-Journal,  11 Jun 2008

Boston Avenue School graduates its final class

DELAND -- This week Boston Avenue School graduated four students and gave out awards -- certificates for learning how to maneuver a computer mouse, scooting their wheelchair the most during physical education, and climbing to the top of the Ponce Inlet ...

From ROSA RAMIREZ, Daytona Beach News-Journal,  7 Jun 2008

Teen who plotted school deaths gets probation

DELAND -- The 14-year-old boy who wrote on MySpace he wanted to shoot his DeLand Middle School classmates and himself has been ordered to probation for as long as five years in a plea deal. Volusia Circuit Judge Hubert Grimes on Friday laid out what's ...

From ROSA RAMIREZ, Daytona Beach News-Journal,  7 Jun 2008
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Suspect in DeBary bank robbery arrested

The man who police say robbed a DeBary bank dressed in style last week was arrested early Wednesday. Darryl Oates, 40, of Deltona wore a three-piece suit and a fedora with a feather when he held up the DeBary branch of Riverside National Bank last ...

From ROSA RAMIREZ, Daytona Beach News-Journal,  5 Jun 2008
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Principal, students work to improve Pine Ridge's image

DELTONA -- When Tom Russell took over as principal of Pine Ridge High School last year, he saw the pain in students' eyes each time there was a lockdown or a fight on campus. To outsiders, these were troubled teens. "There was a resiliency to show that ...

From ROSA RAMIREZ, Daytona Beach News-Journal,  1 Jun 2008
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Former Salvation Army captain charged with molestation

DELAND -- A former DeLand Salvation Army captain faces charges of sexually molesting a girl on multiple occasions during a two-year span, starting when she was 13. The State Attorney's Office formally filed charges Thursday against John Rainey Chastain, ...

From ROSA RAMIREZ, Daytona Beach News-Journal,  31 May 2008

Deltona DJ killed in nightclub shooting

Jamaica native Kevin Jordache Webster drove from his Deltona home to Polk County last week to promote his first reggae CD in a scene known for its Caribbean sounds. But he never got a chance. Early Saturday morning, Webster, 29, and two Tampa ...

From ROSA RAMIREZ, Daytona Beach News-Journal,  29 May 2008
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Woman dies week before wedding

DELAND -- Kam Ann Mueller slipped on her high heels and touched up her makeup before heading to Orlando with her mom and girlfriends last Saturday to celebrate her last week as a single gal. When the group of women arrived at a bar at City Walk, the ...

From ROSA RAMIREZ, Daytona Beach News-Journal,  24 May 2008
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