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Edgewater cops: 24-year-old woman threatening suicide in argument with mom reported missing

EDGEWATER -- A 24-year-old Edgewater woman is reported missing and police are asking the public's help in locating her.

Christine Lavoie and her mother were arguing in their home 6 p.m. Tuesday when the daughter ran from the residence after threatening to commit suicifde, police said.

"Christine has not been heard from since and her whereabouts are unknown at this time," Edgewater police said today in a press release.

 Christine Lavoie is described as a white, 5 feet 4 and 130 pounds. She has brown eyes, long straight dirty-blonde hair, facial piercings and a tattoo of “Bella Vita” on her right forearm. She was wearing a white T-shirt and denim capris.  

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Daytona police chief promotes patrol supervisor who taunted female cop for more than a year

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Daytona Beach police Capt. Jim NewcombCapt. Jim Newcomb, shown here, is now the third ranking administrator in the Daytona Beach police force, despite a checkered past that includes verbal abuse.

DAYTONA BEACH -- For more than a year, Daytona Beach cop Kelly Fishpaugh endured taunting from then-Sgt. Jim Newcomb who continually asked her how her pregnancy was going despite the fact she wasn't pregnant. The taunting lasted more than a year.

Newcomb was also responsible for a lesbian cop being fired after she rejected overtures of another woman who made allegations that weren't substantiated. The cop, who had no disciplinary record until the bogus incident, finally got her job back two years later. Despite these and a host of other issues, Newcomb was promoted just a week ago Monday by Chief Mike Chitwood to the rank of captain and that has the police union up in arms.
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Trayvon Martin's parents in exclusive interview after Miami rally: 'We are not alone in this fight for justice'

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Justice for Trayvon: A Search for AnswersTrayvon Martin

NSBNews.net video by Henry Frederick / While countless media outlets covered Sunday's downtown Miami rally for Trayvon Martin, the slain teen's parents, Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin, granted an exclusive interview to NSBNews.net, which you can watch by clicking the video. Highlights are in the story below. 

MIAMI -- The contrasting emotions of two parents grieving over the gunshot slaying of their teenage son were evident following the big rally in Miami attended by thousands of people demanding justice for Trayvon Martin.
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Benefit golf tournament Saturday in New Smyrna Beach to benefit March of Dimes

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- The second annual Lester C. Weimer Memorial “Birdies for Babies” golf tournament benefiting the March of Dimes takes place on Saturday at Hidden Lakes Golf Club, 35 Fairgreen Ave. All proceeds go to the March of Dimes.

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Ponce Inlet to celebrate Memorial Day at new veterans monument in front of lighthouse

Ponce Inlet MemorialPONCE INLET -- State Rep, Dorothy Hukill, R-Port Orange, will be among a contingent of dignitaries on hand to commemorate the Memorial Day Holiday with the Ponce Inlet Lighthouse veterarans memorial as a backdrop in Davies Lighthouse Park, 4931 S. Peninsula Drive. 

The 11 a.m. Sunday, May 29, ceremony includes a flyover by the Spruce Creek Gaggle, remarks from Ponce Inlet Mayor Gary Smith and guest speaker Mihael White, director of veterans services for Volusia County. The Spruce Creek High School Trumpeteers will play "Taps" and there are a host of other related activities.

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Outdoor fire ban remains in effect for Oak Hill, Pierson, Lake Helen and unincorporated Volusia County

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Smoke chokes the air in the woods of Pioneer Trail in Samsula near New Smyrna Beach as shown in this video.

SAMSULA -- A 55-acre fire that raged in the woods of Pioneer Trail left the unmistakable stench of smoke for days.

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OAK HILL -- Now that its almost the end of the school year, people need to reflect on how well Burns Sci-Tech. Charter School has done. We have won awards for the best school, our teachers have...
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NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- I had a musician friend of mine who is a blues musician ( he won’t play any other style of music no matter how much you pay him) send me this memo. It is adorable and so...
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EDGEWATER -- If we could read First Lady Michelle Obama's mind, this would probably be what she is thinking: "Please! Please! Vote for my Husband! "When he is re-elected I will be able to...
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EDGEWATER -- A friend forwarded a request from a military friend of hers in Afghanistan telling her they were hit really hard and lost all their personal things. He said they needed towels, razors,...
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Dim All The Lights: Remembering Disco Queen Donna Summer and the decade of failure

Life was much simpler back in 1979 when Donna Summer was queen of the pop charts. The music helped define the 1970s, the decade of mistrust, betrayal and failure.

And as much as that decade said "Disco Sucks!" it was the music that moved us. It was the beat that helped us endure and transition to a new decade of living large and enjoying the good times: the Big 80s.

No singer transcended the music of the disco era better than Donna Summer. And if Disco sucked, it was a reflection of our leaders who sucked: Nixon, Ford and Carter. 

I was a wide-eyed naive 17-year-old begging, hoping to put high school behind me as fast as possible for college and the beginning of my adult life with endless possibilities.
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Air Supply lost in love in Plant City Strawberry Festival

Pavlina Osta of Port Orange talks with Graham Russell and Russell Hitchcock, the super duo known as "Air Supply" during their spring concert at the Strawberry Ferstival in Plant City.

Pavlina Osta By Pavlina Osta

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PLANT CITY -- I talk with the fabulous duo Air Supply, backstage, before their performance at the Strawberry Festival in Plant City.

Graham Russell and Russell Hitchcock have such famous songs as "Lost in Love," "All out of Love", "The One that You Love," "Sweet Dreams" and "Making Love Out of Nothing At All" and each one has achieved multi-million plays on the radio.
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Award winning blogger Peter Mallory

Peter Mallory is a retired co-publisher and founder of NSBNews.net, now under the umbrella trademark Headline Surfer (HeadlineSurfer.com). You can read his award-winning blog segments for "The Right Side," by clicking here where he has an entire blog listing, along with details of his 2011 Florida Press Club blog award. When he writes new installments, they will be posted here.
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