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.