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A man who jumped out of a second-story apartment window in Daytona Beach on Tuesday and broke his back was arrested after police discovered the apartment was supposed to be vacant.

A house fire is being blamed on an exploding hoverboard.

Six people were rescued from the water in the Intracoastal Waterway on Wednesday afternoon after they jumped from a boat that caught fire, officials said.

When a Deltona teen declined to assist two men who approached her car as she arrived home from work around midnight Wednesday, the pair pulled out guns and demanded she exit the vehicle, authorities said.

An officer was shot by a felon with an assault rifle in Midtown and the suspect, who has a violent recent past involving firearms, told them he meant the bullets for people who “triple crossed him,” officials said.

A Waste Pro employee was crushed to death Wednesday morning after a garbage/recycling truck overturned, trapping him underneath.

The search for a missing man who fell off a boat on Lake Harney in Osteen ended Thursday afternoon, Nov. 15, 2018, when a Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission official said the man's body was recovered.

A gun battle between two vehicles at a skating rink in Ormond Beach at midnight Saturday left a bullet hole in a daycare and a shrapnel cut to a person’s face, authorities said.

A Ponce Inlet police officer was fired less than two months after his arrest on a domestic battery charge and he decided at the last minute not to file an appeal in an effort to keep his job, the police chief said.

A 6-month old baby kidnapped in a car from a Holly Hill tow yard was found safely, police said.

A pizza delivery driver was attacked by a pit bull Thursday evening when he was delivering a pizza to a Palm Coast house.

A commercial shrimping boat out of Key West ran aground on Ormond Beach late Monday, Oct. 16, 2018, giving beachgoers a close-up gaze at the 150-ton vessel Tuesday morning.

A clash between Deltona neighbors over a boy throwing baseballs at a man's fence turned into a gun battle when one man threatened another with a handgun and was then shot himself when his neighbor opened fire, according to reports.

A Daytona Beach couple attacked by their pit bull on Sunday had to kill the dog in order to save their lives, their son said to a dispatcher in a 9-1-1 call. 

A single engine airplane flipped over in a field in DeLeon Springs Sunday afternoon while trying to make an emergency landing after an engine malfunction, officials said. The two occupants suffered minor injuries.

A fire burned a home near Orange City on Monday.

Newly appointed Edgewater City Councilwoman Megan O'Keefe is charged with domestic battery following allegations she scratched and punched her estranged husband Wednesday during an argument.

A “large package” containing 23 smaller packages of marijuana was found Wednesday morning on the shore by beachgoers in Ormond-by-the-Sea and it is likely that the choppy Atlantic surf being churned by Hurricane Florence that caused it to reach land, an official said.

A man shot to death at a gas station in DeLeon Springs on Tuesday was part of a “beat down,” the culmination of a fight that started the day before, authorities said on Wednesday.

An employee of the Denny’s restaurant in north DeLand was seriously injured by lightning Tuesday, authorities said