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Thursday afternoon, a drug raid led to the arrest of a Bunnell sex offender, who was found with trafficking amounts of Fentanyl, enough to kill 2,250 people. The main subject of the investigation, identified as 60-year-old Todd Blanchard, was arrested on multiple felony drug charges.

Troopers are investigating after a Daytona Beach woman died in a crash Friday afternoon on Interstate 95 in the Port Orange area. The fatal wreck occurred shortly before 3 p.m. in the southbound lanes, just north of the Dunlawton Avenue interchange, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. It shut down the inside southbound lane for a few hours. ...

VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. – A 30-year-old Daytona Beach woman was killed in a Port Orange crash on Interstate 95 Friday afternoon, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. Troopers said they responded to the scene on southbound I-95 near mile marker 256 shortly before 3 p.m. [TRENDING: Supreme Court overturns...

Last Updated: Friday, 7:34 p.m. The Flagler Beach City Commission learned Thursday evening that the city missed out on up to $739,000 in grant funds from the Flagler County Tourist Development Council–a grant that had been available since January 2021. The city was afforded an extension. It missed that deadline too.

Owning a restaurant has never been easy, but for Meryl Frappier, the last 32 years have been the best time of her life. It's a period of time that started when she and her late husband Bobby opened a 450-square-foot hoagie shop in South Daytona in 1990, when Frappier was five-and-a-half months pregnant and making philly cheesesteaks. She'd deliver sandwiches then too; People would ask Bobby where she was sometimes and he'd tell them she was delivering.

DAYTONA BEACH — Two stores whose plans to relocate to Daytona Beach's Tomoka Town Center were announced in 2019 are finally set to open in the next few days. Rooms To Go will open its new 3-in-1 format home-furnishings store on Saturday, along the east side of Interstate 95, directly north of Tanger Outlets. The 55,400-square-foot standalone store is more than three times the size of the Seffner, Florida-based chain's previous Daytona Beach location 3 miles to the south.

DEBARY, Fla. — Volusia County sheriff’s investigators want to find the person seen on video allegedly setting three cars on fire in DeBary. The fire reportedly happened early Friday morning around 4:45 a.m. Deputies and Orange City firefighters arrived to Oak Springs Court to find multiple cars on fire at two neighboring homes.

A wanted man was arrested at the unfinished Flagler Sheriff’s Operations Center building on June 20 when deputies found him working as a laborer on one of the crews constructing the building. Deputies arrested the suspect, 59-year-old Terry Lee Jackson, on June 20 for failing to register as a...

DeLAND, Fla. – The DeLand Police Department on Friday shared images from surveillance video of a residential burglary in progress earlier this week, requesting help from the public to identify the suspect pictured. The burglary occurred Monday in the early morning hours at a home on West Minnesota Avenue,...

ORLANDO, Fla. – We are pinpointing more extreme heat — and storms — across Central Florida. A flood advisory was issued for Volusia County and expired at 4:45 p.m. Friday, while a similar advisory for Orange and Seminole counties was in effect until 6:30 p.m. A severe...

ORANGE CITY, Fla. — A local seafood store owner may have hit the crustacean jackpot. Larry Hurt of Fresh Local Seafood in Orange City opened his daily shipment of Maine lobsters Friday morning to find one that didn't look like the rest. Its shell was a bright orange. Hurt...

A Florida man and woman have been arrested after the theft of over $10,000 worth of lawn care equipment from a business’s trailer. Investigators say on June 16th around 7:30 am, DeLand Police Department units responded to 710 East Voorhis Avenue in reference to a

DEBARY, Fla. – Video shows a man launching a Molotov cocktail into a car in a DeBary neighborhood Friday after deputies responded to multiple vehicle fires in the area, according to the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office. The sheriff’s office said deputies and firefighters responded to three vehicle fires...

Brandon Schwedes of Port Orange, Fla., with his 11-year-old daughter and 8-year-old son.Brandon Schwedes. When Sarah Da Costa had to find a new apartment in Chicago this year — with her husband, baby and dog — the whole process seemed weird. First, there were open houses, something she thought was just for buying homes. At one of them, "literally, people couldn't even fit in the house, and we got there right when it started."

Apartments will rise where junked cars once rusted under a developer’s new plan. The new owner of a DeBary junkyard is proposing a multimillion-dollar facelift for the roughly 14-acre parcel on S. U.S. Highway 17-92. The property, once home to Clayton & Sons auto salvage, is now called Haven...

Daytona Beach is the ultimate vacationland. Its famous nicknames include the “Springbreak Capital of the World,” the “World Center of Racing,” and the “World’s Most Famous Beach.” All three undoubtedly speak volumes about how incredible this place is. But, did you know that Daytona Beach is also an angling epicenter? Deep sea fishing in Daytona Beach is considered to be one of the finest Florida can offer.

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – A new initiative in Volusia and Flagler counties is being implemented in the hopes of improving community and law enforcement relations — teaching both sides how to better interact with one another. Law enforcement leaders and the organization Minority Elected Officials of Volusia County...

Writer Phil Perkins shares teenage memories of a family trip when he was 16 – a nostalgic tale that speaks to memories in us all. In the summer of my 16th year, things just clicked. I had finally worked off the baby fat that had plagued me on and off for years. And although I’d never been what you would call a shy kid, sometimes I got a little tongue-tied when addressing the young ladies. Even that malady seemed to melt away with the weight.

DELAND, Fla. – A man and woman tried selling lawn care equipment worth over $10,000 that was stolen from a Orange City business last week, according to the DeLand Police Department. Police said Ian Way, 31, and Destiny Thacker, 27, were arrested in connection with a burglary on June...