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<p> Holly Hill police are investigating a bomb threat incident at a Florida Health Care building on Tuesday afternoon in Volusia County.</p><p> Volusia County sheriff's deputies said the Florida Health Care building on the 1300 block of Ridgewood Avenue has been evacuated.</p><p> Southbound U.S. 1 between 13th Street and 14th Street in Holly Hill is currently shut down.</p><p> Patients and employees from inside the Health Center were transferred to another location by two buses.</p><p> The bomb squad was on scene and searched the building. A bomb sniffing dog is currently searching the parking lot for bomb making materials.</p><p> No other information was immediately available.</p><p> Local 6 news helicopter Sky 6 is on scene.</p><p> Check back with Local 6 and ClickOrlando.com for more information.</p>
Published: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 23:04:13 GMT
<p> Three juveniles have been arrested in Brevard County on hate crime charges in the beating of an autistic boy.</p><p> Police said the victim was waiting at his bus stop on Wyoming Drive and San Filipo Drive on Friday when he was approached by three boys, ages 15, 16 and 16.</p><p> The teens were videotaping the victim and were trying to provoke him to fight them by saying racial remarks, according to police. When the victim tried to run away, he was nearly hit by a motorcycle and a pickup truck, police said.</p><p> The trio continued to follow and harrass the victim, saying they were going to put the video on Facebook, according to Palm Bay police. When they all got on the bus, the teens continued to bully the victim and hit him in the face, police said.</p><p> The video was later posted on Facebook, police said.</p><p> The suspects face charges of aggravated stalking and hate crime. Two of them were charged with violation of probation.</p><p> Police said all three defendants knew the victim.</p>
Published: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 22:50:19 GMT
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Published: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 07:00:00 GMT
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Published: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 13:17:21 GMT
<p> Volusia County deputies have arrested man they say held his girlfriend against her will for three days and beat her up at his home.</p><p> Deputies said Christopher Nill, 36, stripped off all of the victim's clothes, held her down on the bed with a knife, pulled her hair so hard she had two bald spots on her head and attempted to strangle her after a fight escalated Saturday at his home at South Woodland Boulevard.</p><p> Deputies said Nill allowed her to go to the bathroom, and then shoved her to the ground. The victim started to yell for help when Nill grabbed her jaw and twisted her neck, cutting her lip, deputies said. He then threatened her with a knife that he was going to kill her friends if she tried to get away or call for help, according to deputies.</p><p> When Nill left the home days later, she called authorities, according to the arrest report.</p><p> Nill was arrested at his mother's house. He told deputies he pushed the victim down, pulled her hair and slapped her, but said he never threatened her with a knife.</p><p> He has been booked into the Volusia County Jail and faces charges of domestic battery by strangulation, aggravated assault with deadly weapon and false imprisonment.</p>
Published: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 22:06:52 GMT
<p> After debating for months which schools should be closed because of a $20 million budget gap, the Seminole County School Board voted Tuesday not to shuuter any schools.</p><p> Superintendent Bill Vogel made the recommendation to the board after saying the state's budget included a reduction in retirement expenses.</p><p> The school board then voted to accept his recommendation.</p><p> The recommendation comes after the state agreed to reduce the amount of money it allocated for a retirement increase, which in turn freed up millions for the district.</p><p> Vogel said the recommendation is only for the 2012-13 school year.</p><p> He added that he wants to form a citizens committee to help create criteria for closing schools in case the same situation arises next year.</p><p> Some wondered if the school district had the authority to close a school in the first place. Last week, an ordinance was passed banning districts from closing schools in the state House of Representatives.</p><p> Gov. Rick Scott still has to sign off on the current budget proposal by March 6.</p>
Published: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 22:57:17 GMT
<p> The Marion County School Board will address the issue of violence on school buses at its meeting on Tuesday night.</p><p> Parents are calling for the issue to be address after seven students allegedly beat up a student on a bus headed for Liberty Middle School in January.</p><p> Five girls and two boys, ranging in ages 12 to 15, face charges of battery and disorderly conduct.</p><p> The students were in court Tuesday afternoon for pretrial hearings, where they received new court dates. Six of the students asked for continuances, one will be going to trial at the end of February.</p><p> The 13-year-old victim and her family were not in court Tuesday, but her mother told Local 6 that she has hired a lawyer. It's not clear at this time if she plans to sue. The victim's lawyer did not return calls for comment.</p><p> The Marion County School Board will decide if they will expel the seven students facing charges in a meetings Feb. 28.</p>
Published: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 22:11:51 GMT
<p> The murder trial of former Orange County school teacher Delores Laster, who's accused of killing her husband in 1988, continues Tuesday with her daughter called to the stand.</p><p> Kristy Dandridge admitted on the stand that when she was 10, her mom woke her up claiming dad had hit head on nightstand. She, mom, and brother Clyde dragged him to garage, then left for Gainesville. Dandridge told jurors she never knew dad had been shot until receiving his death certificate in 1994. She said she never questioned her mom about it because "it was a closed book" and she didn't suspect mom of anything. In a very odd exchange, prosecutors read back Dandridge's 2009 grand jury testimony, in which she admitted her mom gathered up her nightgown, put it in a bag, and threw it in dumpster on way to Gainesville. She also told grand jury mom had coached her to tell police they never saw their dad that morning. In each of those instances Dandridge told jurors Tuesday that she did tell all that to the grand jury but she now says that information she told the grand jury is incorrect.</p><p> FDLE special agent supervisor Tony Rodriguez testified on Monday that until interviewing kids, there was no conclusive evidence that pointed to who the perpetrator was. The defense tried to imply during cross-examination of Rodriguez that Laster's daughter Kristi Dandridge was "threatened" with jail if she didn't cooperate.</p><p> Rodriguez admitted to the jury that those statements were made to her.</p><p> But on re-direct, he said that Dandridge expressed concern about testifying against her mom at trial and refused to talk to them without a subpoena.</p><p> Prosecution started Tuesday's trial day off by playing the October 2011 videotaped testimony from Clyde Laster, in which he says he doesn't really remember what happened the night his father, Clarence, died.</p><p> In his testimony, Clyde Laster begins by saying that he was 10-years-old, he remembers waking up to find his father hurt in the bedroom.</p><p> He said he then helped his mom carry his father's body into the garage, believing they were going to take him to the hospital. But instead, they left Clarence Laster in the garage and took off for an overnight trip to Gainesville, he said.</p><p> In cross-examination, Clyde Laster said his memory of that night 24 years ago is foggy, and maybe it didn't happen as he recalls.</p><p> Prosecutors believe that after Clyde Laster implicated his mother in the murder, he became concerned her testimony would put her in jail, so now he's saying he doesn't remember what happened.</p><p> But the defense claims detectives may have brainwashed him into making his original statement.</p><p> The testimony was supposed to have been shown to the jury yesterday, but the judge decided to play it all in one sitting Tuesday.</p><p> Instead, prosecutors read aloud the transcript on Monday of Clyde Laster's testimony to the grand jury in 2009, with prosecutor Pam Davis reading the prosecutor's lines and prosecutor Ryan Vescio reading Clyde Laster's testimony.</p><p> In the testimony, Clyde said "My dad was lying on the floor. I remember blood on the corner of the nightstand." Clyde also describes dragging him to garage thinking he was going to the hospital. He said his mother told him they didn't have money for an ambulance.</p><p> Laster's lawyers asked to see the grand jury testimony from 2009, so in a highly unusual instance, the judge unsealed the testimony.</p><p> The state is expected to rest after the videotaped testimony ends. The defense is then expected to ask for a judgment of acquittal.</p><p> Watch Local 6 and check back with ClickOrlando.com for more information.</p>
Published: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 22:28:13 GMT
<p> A 19-year-old Melbourne supermodel is the new cover girl for the 2012 Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition.</p><p> Kate Upton was born in Michigan but grew up in Florida and considers Melbourne her hometown.</p><p> The new cover was unveiled last night on The Late Show with David Letterman.</p><p> "That was one of the first photos from the first shoot. It was my favorite swimsuit. … I felt sexy in it, but confident," Upton told Local 6 News partner Florida Today, referring to the cover shot.</p><p> Upton was chosen as the "rookie of the year" in last year's edition.</p>
Published: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 13:04:42 GMT
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Published: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:29:49 GMT
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Published: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 16:11:24 GMT
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