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BUNNELL - A 56-year-old man remained in jail Thursday charged with with two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, resisting merchant, grand theft, and illegal use of shopping carts following an incident that occurred at a Palm Coast Wal-Mart.According to the Flagler County Sheriff's Office, Kevin Leahy, 56, listed as a transient, was arrested Tuesday after he threatened employees with a metal baseball bat when they tried to stop him from shoplifting.A Wal-Mart employee told deputies that Leahy approached her at the store's MoneyCenter and sought money from a credit card

DALLAS - A woman whose death in a Texas jail has raised suspicions about the official conclusion that she hanged herself told a guard during the booking process that she had tried to kill herself in the past, according to the county sheriff.
Waller County Sheriff Glenn Smith said Wednesday that two jailers interviewed Sandra Bland after her arrest.

Yes, it is just as hot as you think it is. The heat advisory from the National Weather Service is still in effect today for Flagler County and the rest of Northeast Florida and Georgia due to unseasonably warm temperatures,
From noon to 6 p.m.

ORMOND BEACH – Eleven-year-old Joseph Cofer was thinking ahead one day and wanted to start saving for a car.“I knew babysitting wasn't for me, and it wasn't on a regular basis,” he said.The Cofer family began to discuss various business options.“We travel around the state a lot and we saw a woman with a popsicle stand and a line of people waiting to get one,” said Kellie Cofer, Joseph's mother.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH – Campers attending the Atlantic Center for the Arts' Summer Art Camp at ACA's Community Arts Center have been focusing and honoring the women and men of the modernist design movement and Modern Art.Spanning eight weeks, campers ages 6-12 explore ideas of art and culture through hands-on experiences along with having fun."We have 50 campers here this week," said Ren Morrison, director of Community Programs.

For more information about these and other animals for adoption, visit SEVhumanesociety.org or call SEVHS at 386-428-9860 or stop by the shelter at 1200 S. Glencoe Road, New Smyrna Beach. Hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Southeast Volusia Humane Society accepts donations of all kinds. A need also exists for volunteers and foster homes.

DELEON SPRINGS – Each fall a field of gold and yellow sunflowers has passersby on Lake Winona Road stopping to look, take pictures, pick and admire. The flowers have delighted people for years, much to the joy of the woman for which they were planted – Joyce Shuman.Shuman and her husband of 62 years, Jack, are the owners of the sunflower garden. Though Joyce is shy about her story, it's as beautiful as those blazing sunflowers filling the field on an autumn day.As you may have guessed, sunflowers are her favorite flower.

Daytona Beach's Ben Kennedy finished 12th and Flagler Beach's Ray Black Jr. finished 15th in the Truck Series' Mud Summer Classic on Wednesday night at Eldora Speedway in Rossburg, Ohio.
Christopher Bell won in his third career start.
The 20-year-old Norman, Oklahoma, dirt racer held off 18-year-old Bobby Pierce in a green-white-checker finish in NASCAR's lone dirt race in its top three series.
Bell fended off Pierce in a series of late restarts in the caution-filled race, running the outside line on the half-mile clay oval in his No.

DAYTONA BEACH - The Daytona Tortugas didn't need many runs with hard-throwing lefty Amir Garrett on the mound Wednesday, but they broke out the bats and put up a few anyway en route to a 5-2 win over the Charlotte Stone Crabs in front of 2,909 fans at Jackie Robinson Ballpark.In his second start since getting the win in the All-Star Futures Game in Cincinnati on July 12, Garrett (6-6) cruised, striking out seven over seven innings to get the win."I've just been getting more comfortable as the season goes along," Garrett said.

Ben Hall, who played at Seabreeze High, Stetson and Daytona State, was named head baseball coach at North Carolina A&T.
Hall was named interim coach all 2014 after head coach Joel Sanchez was dismissed. The Aggies went 10-36 overall, 7-17 in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference last season, but went 6-6 over their last 12 games.
"Our program's first priority is to lead our student-athletes as they develop into men while striving for success on and off the field," Hall said.