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Ashlie Hicks, a clerk for the Flagler County Sheriff's Office, was driving to work Tuesday when she saw smoke coming from a Bunnell home, the Sheriff's Office said. She called it in and was able to help the three adults inside -- who were not aware the house was on fire -- out safely.

A gunman armed with an assault-style rifle jumped the pharmacy counter at the downtown Walgreens on Tuesday and appeared to be shooting up some drugs with a hypodermic needle when he was confronted by police.

A DeLand man stabbed his nephew four times with a 6-inch fillet knife for taking too long in the bathroom and claimed the younger man also made him feel disrespected, police said.

About 20 males were seen on Facebook video punching and kicking a man identified as a T-shirt shop worker in the Volusia Mall.

Curtis Gray, 18, was found with a gunshot wound to his abdomen lying in the parking lot of a laundromat in Bunnell. A suspected shooter and two associates were arrested the next day.

A man was shot in the stomach on Sunday night in a dispute over living arrangements near DeLand and the shooter was in jail without bail, sheriff’s officials said.

A mother wielded a can of soup to frighten off a carjacker Tuesday who tried to take her SUV with her 2-year-old son still inside after the suspect crashed his stolen car outside a neighborhood convenience store.

A Deltona woman faces child neglect charges after one of her 3-year-old twin sons left in her care nearly drowned in a hot tub at a Daytona Beach Shores resort Sunday night, police said.

William Johnson, 82, rolled across two lanes of State Road A1A aand then zipped through the parking lot of Al Weeks Sr. North Shore Park. He crashed through a wooden fence before his vehicle dropped 20 feet onto the beach. After his Toyota Venza landed on the sand, the car ran over a 5-year-old girl and struck the other three children, her 3- and 11-year-old brothers, and her twin sister, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.

A painter discovered the fire that injured an Ormond Beach woman.

A person was shot in the neck Thursday night in the 800 block of East Indiana Avenue in DeLand, according to a release from the DeLand police.

A homeless man who was armed with burglary tools and a syringe near New Smyrna Beach was stopped from entering a house by a gun-wielding homeowner, according to the Volusia County Sheriff's Office.

A duct-taped man jumped out of the trunk of a car in Daytona Beach in what police suspect was a drug-related kidnapping that started 9 miles away in Port Orange, authorities said.

A Daytona Beach woman was recovering Monday after suffering severe injuries when two pit bulls attacked her as she walked home, officials said.

A construction equipment fire shut down the the Dunlawton Avenue bridge on Monday morning, and firefighters had to attack unconventionally to extinguish the flames.

A suspect on a Volusia County bus claiming to have a bomb and threatening to detonate it surrendered after a two-hour standoff, authorities said.

A Deltona city employee suffered a severe hand injury Monday afternoon when a firework went off in his hand, officials said.

An off-duty Daytona Beach firefighter working out at a gym saved the life of a police officer, who had a heart attack, while exercising at the same facility, authorities said.

Several drivers called in to report someone driving the wrong way on I-95 early Wednesday morning. That driver ultimately struck another vehicle head-on. The firastdriver was killed, the other was pulled from his burning vehicle.

Two women said they witnessed a Chow Chow mix being chased by a man wielding a baseball bat and then moments later they saw a woman kick the dog "as hard as she could," Daytona Beach police said.