Daytona 911

A man called the Volusia County Sheriff's Office claiming to be holding three British Airways flight attendants hostage at Daytona Beach International Airport Monday. Problem: British Airways doesn't fly to Daytona. Also, the airport wasn't open yet.

Gregory Ramos, 15, accused of killing his mother after an argument over a poor grade, made this 9-1-1 call to report a burglary he admitted later was staged with the help of two friends, investigators said.

Daytona Beach police say a man is suspected of burglarizing a boardwalk concession stand and handing out cotton candy, soda and other treats to passersby. Nine gallons of ice cream, three trays of caramel apples, three trays of candy apples, 12 bags of cotton candy, six two-liter bottles of soda, 13 boxes of candy, two boxes of Oreo cookies, four boxes of Twinkies and four boxes of frozen bananas.

A patient was airlifted to a Daytona Beach hospital after being electrocuted Thursday morning near a construction site in Palm Coast.

A Daytona Beach woman was charged with second-degree murder after stabbing a man with a folding knife during an argument over drugs, police said.

A DeLand man who broke into a house, stole a Gatorade and took a shower was kicked out by the homeowner and was standing on the back porch naked when authorities arrived to arrest him, deputies say.

Former Bethune-Cookman head football coach Brian Jenkins was arrested on Sunday on charges stemming from a domestic dispute, according to the Port Orange Police Department.

A DeLand woman was killed on Tuesday after her car drove off the road and plunged into the Halifax River near the east end of the Orange Avenue bridge in Daytona Beach, police said.

A homeless Daytona Beach man shot his mother’s boyfriend while the man was lying in bed shortly after he was told he could stay on the couch, DeLand police investigators said. This call is stopped before the fatal shot.

Robert Mosley was on his morning walk in a Port Orange neighborhood on Sunday morning when he heard a lot of meowing but could not see the cats.

Daytona Beach police are investigating a Monday afternoon shooting that left a man with gunshot wounds to his arm and abdomen, officials said.

Neighbors attempted to rescue a woman trapped inside, but the heat and smoke were too intense, fire chief says One person was found dead after a travel trailer caught fire and exploded in a Port Orange RV park Thursday night, firefighters said.

A motorist called dispatch to report a toddler on the highway. The boy's parents were high on drugs at home, Volusia County sheriff's deputies said.

A person critically injured in a mobile home fire Tuesday morning in DeLand was on oxygen, police said.

A caller was just the latest to spot a black bear that has been traveling all over southern Volusia County in the last few days.

A wife called for help removing a woman from the couple's boat because the woman was having an affair with her husband.

A black man was celebrating Mother’s Day with his white wife at a restaurant near Edgewater when another man walked up and asked him if he was from Africa and whether it was “Africa Day,” according to a charging affidavit. The racial confrontation resulting in the arrest of three men - two on hate crimes charges - only got uglier with fists flying and two men hurling the n-word, according to the affidavit.

An Edgewater man who had a role in the fatal attack of a pair of spring breakers 21 years ago called 9-1-1 to say he was going to go shoot himself. After a lengthy standoff with Volusia County deputies, during which he shot at a helicopter, he was taken into custody.

A man was shot during an apparent dispute outside Angelo’s Pizza early Wednesday morning, authorities said. 

In the days before he grabbed his rifle and jumped a pharmacy counter at a Walgreens in Daytona Beach, Louis Curler said he felt as if he was being followed. He said odd things would happen to him, like the images on his phone's screen would inexplicably change. At one point he called Holly Hill Police after he felt threatened by a man with a gun but police only found Curler and no one else.