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Departmental Heads in the City of Port Orange
have been directed by the City Manager
to prepare projected figures for their departments
which will be considered by the city council
in an attempt to cut the city budget by 9 percent
cartoon found in the complete New Yorker Cartoons, pg. 464.
see more cartoons at www.newyorker.com
see more cartoons at www.cartoonbank.com
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Flu vaccine being offered in Volusia
Daytona Beach News-Journal
The official start of the flu vaccine's availability begins today at 9 am as the Port Orange Fire Department opens its station No. ...
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No new details on shooting
Madison Courier
No new details were available this morning about Vevay native Loni Amber Turner, who was found shot to death in a Port Orange, Fla., motel room Monday. ...
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Man Moves Into Missing Woman's Home, Sells Car
WFTV Orlando
Residents in Port Orange said he had lived in the home of a man police found last week, buried under palm fronds, dead. Samuel Adam Smith, 24, ...
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Two men who said they were driving from Florida to Massachusetts and stopped in Westport to sightsee have been arrested on various drug charges, Westport police said today.
Ryan O’Donnell, 19, of Port Orange, Fla., and Robert O’Neill, 32, of Rockland, Mass., were stopped after they went through a red light at Post Road West and Riverside Avenue and then made an illegal U-turn, said Lt. Arthur Belilie. ....
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September 1, 2010
from Gary Davidson, VCSO
Public Information Office
Note: Click on link below for more background on the arrest of Christopher Jodon
http://www.volusia.org/sheriff/press/2010PressReleases/July/100088.htm
JAIL INMATE DIES AFTER HANGING
A jail inmate found hanging Sunday night in his cell from his bed sheet has died. Christopher Jodon, who was being housed at the Volusia County Branch Jail in Daytona Beach while awaiting trial on a murder charge, died Wednesday morning.
The Volusia County Sheriff’s Office arrested the 44-year-old Jodon last month, accusing him of stabbing his former girlfriend -- Jackie Miller -- to death after disabling her car by ramming it along I-4 near Lake Helen. Jodon was being housed in a segregation unit at the jail, where corrections officers checked on him every 15 minutes. He was observed by corrections officers to be in good condition when he was checked at 6:16 p.m. on Sunday evening. But during the next check at 6:31 p.m., corrections officers found Jodon hanging from a bed sheet that had been wrapped around a mirror in his cell. Corrections officers cut the bed sheet and began performing CPR on Jodon, who had a weak pulse but was unresponsive. Paramedics quickly arrived to take over resuscitation efforts, and then Jodon was transported by EVAC ambulance to the Halifax Health Medical Center in Daytona Beach.
Jodon was pronounced dead at the hospital at approximately 10:30 a.m. The Volusia County Sheriff’s Office is investigating.
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Received 234 pm, 9 1 10
From VCSO
Update #1:
While Kayla Bellantoni remains at large, her baby has been recovered safe and sound. Bellantoni dropped the baby off with a relative on Wednesday, and the relative delivered the baby early Wednesday afternoon to the Florida Department of Children & Families, in compliance with the court order.
Bellatoni left after dropping off the baby, and her exact whereabouts are still unknown at this time. An arrest warrant has been issued for Bellantoni for violation of her pre-trial conditions associated with pending criminal charges against her of being an accessory to armed robbery and aggravated battery with a firearm.
Gary Davidson
Public Information Officer
Volusia County Sheriff’s Office
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September 1, 2010
From Gary Davidson
Public Information Office, VCSO
wanted teen, Kayla Bellantoni
DEPUTIES SEEKS HELP IN LOCATING ABSCONDED DELAND TEEN
The Volusia County Sheriff’s Office is seeking the public’s help in locating a 17-year-old DeLand girl who fled with her 2-month-old child after the teen learned that a judge had ordered the baby into state custody. Kayla Bellantoni also is facing felony charges of being an accessory to armed robbery and aggravated battery with a firearm.
The criminal case against Bellantoni is working its way through the courts, where prosecutors have decided to charge the girl as an adult. On Aug. 4, a warrant was issued for Bellantoni’s arrest after she failed multiple drug tests that were a required as part of her pre-trial conditions. Meanwhile, the State Department of Children & Families has obtained an order to take custody of Bellantoni’s baby son, Gene Cuddy. But before the state could step in, someone apparently tipped off Bellantoni. The teen called DCF on Aug. 2 and agreed to come in the next day. But she never showed up and is now believed to be on the run with the baby. All attempts by authorities to locate her have been unsuccessful.
Bellantoni’s last known address was 327 S. Virginia Ave. in DeLand. She’s 5’1” and weighs approximately 135 pounds and has brown hair, brown eyes and a scar on her right hand. Anyone with information on her whereabouts is asked to call the Sheriff’s Office or Crime Stoppers of Northeast Florida, toll-free, at (888) 277-TIPS. Resident can also text a tip by texting “TIP231 plus the message” to CRIMES. Tipsters who provide information to Crime Stoppers will remain anonymous and can qualify for a reward of up to $1,000. Anyone who prefers to talk directly to a deputy can call Sheriff’s investigator Todd Raible at (386) 943-7866. However, only callers to Crime Stoppers will qualify for a reward.
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From South Daytona Police Department
NEWS RELEASE
Armed Robbery
SDPD Case Number 10-08-00297
09-01-10
On Tuesday, 08-31-10 at 6:35PM, there was an armed robbery in South Daytona. The robbery occurred at the Kangaroo convenience store, 601 Beville Road. A male suspect, described below, entered the store and walked first down one aisle, and then another. The suspect then went to the cash register, where there was a clerk at the counter. The suspect displayed a large black handgun from his waistband and told the clerk, Teresa Edwards, “Give me all the money; I don’t want to kill you.” Ms. Edwards opened the cash register drawer and handed the suspect about $150 in miscellaneous denominations. The suspect then told Ms. Edwards to lift up the cash drawer. She did, but there was no additional money there. The suspect then walked out the front door and then behind the store to a get-away vehicle, described below. The suspect got into the front passenger side of the vehicle and the vehicle took off, traveling south at a high rate of speed on Golfview Boulevard.
A search of the area was made of the area by police officers from South Daytona and Daytona Beach, a K-9 unit from Daytona Beach and the sheriff’s helicopter; however there was no sighting of the suspect and vehicle. . . . .
SUSPECT
Male, black, having a dark complexion, thin build, about 165 lbs., 6’00” to 6’02”, with shoulder length black hair worn in dreadlocks.
The suspect was last seen wearing black clothing, to include a windbreaker jacket, shirt, pants, shoes and a tan colored hat.
VEHICLE
Tan in color 4 door model, possibly a Buick or Oldsmobile. The vehicle had a rear spoiler on the trunk. Florida tag- first 3 characters reported as 015. There is no information as to the get-away driver.
If anyone has any information concerning this case, they are asked to call South Daytona police investigators at (386) 322-3030 or Crime Stoppers of Northeast Florida at (888) 277-TIPS.
Lt. Ron Wright
Professional Standards
South Daytona Police Department
1672 South Ridgewood Avenue
South Daytona, FL 32119
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Fla. court tosses three ballot measures
TALLAHASSEE, Fla., Sept. 1 (UPI) -- Florida's Supreme Court has upheld a lower court ruling tossing out ballot amendments on redistricting, the federal healthcare law and property taxes. [
FULL STORY ]
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NEXT: NEWS - NATIONAL, GLOBAL ,
THE COSMOS
OUR PARELLEL UNIVERSE, AND THE HEREAFTER
and a little bit of the supernatural. (not too much though, we should keep one foot in reality)
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World / Europe: In Poland, a Memorial Becomes a Battleground
By JUDY DEMPSEY
A monument to those who died in the plane crash in April
that killed Poland's president has become a symbol in the
country's heated secular-religious divide.
Full Story:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/02/world/europe/02iht-letter.html?emc=tnt&tntemail1=y
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Halliburton wins contract for Iraqi oil
HOUSTON, Sept. 1 (UPI) -- Engineering services company Halliburton announced it was awarded a contract from Italian energy company Eni to start work at the Zubair oil field in Iraq. [
FULL STORY ]
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U.S. was born a Christian nation
08/28/10 03:11 PM, EDT
Will Bunch's CNN.com tirade earlier this week against television host Glenn Beck and David Barton -- the founder and president of WallBuilders, a national pro-family organization that emphasizes history's "moral, religious and constitutional heritage" -- for allegedly creating "pseudo history" reveals more about Mr. Bunch than it does about what Mr. Beck and Mr. Barton are presenting.
FULL STORY
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World / Europe: Belgian Church Leader Urged Victim to Be Silent
By STEVEN ERLANGER
The former leader of Belgium's Roman Catholic Church urged
a victim of abuse by a bishop to keep silent until the
bishop could retire, according to tapes.
Full Story:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/30/world/europe/30belgium.html?emc=tnt&tntemail1=y
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World / Europe: Germany: New Guides for Reporting Clergy Sex Abuse
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The guidelines are in response to hundreds of allegations
of such abuse that earlier this year rocked the church in
Germany, Pope Benedict XVI's homeland.
Full Story:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/01/world/europe/01webbriefs-CLERGY.html?emc=tnt&tntemail1=y
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