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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.

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.