Suzanne Hirt, The Palm Beach Post

Suzanne Hirt

The Palm Beach Post

Daytona Beach, FL, United States

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Past articles by Suzanne:

Florida students react to colleges' reopening plans with mix of optimism, fear

The 12 state schools will reduce class sizes and offer fewer in-person courses, enforce social distancing and require faculty, staff and students to wear → Read More

Rural communities without a hospital struggle to fight rising coronavirus cases, deaths

At Dr. Karen Kinsell’s southwest Georgia practice, patients showing coronavirus symptoms have infiltrated an appointment schedule usually crowded → Read More

Rural communities without a hospital struggle to fight rising coronavirus cases, deaths

At Dr. Karen Kinsell’s southwest Georgia practice, patients showing coronavirus symptoms have infiltrated an appointment schedule usually crowded → Read More

Facebook Live video from burning Florida boat may show suicidal woman's final moments

DAYTONA BEACH — A disturbing video circulating on social media may shed some light on a suicidal woman’s final minutes aboard a blazing boat → Read More

Facebook Live video from burning Daytona boat may show suicidal woman's final moments

DAYTONA BEACH — A disturbing video circulating on social media may shed some light on a suicidal woman’s final minutes aboard a blazing boat she’d set adrift from Halifax Harbor Marina.Investigators on Monday found the body of Nikki Shriver, a 31-year-old mother of three young children, hidden beneath a large cushion on a bench inside the boat. But questions linger about the circumstances that… → Read More

Facebook Live video from burning Florida boat may show suicidal woman's final moments

DAYTONA BEACH — A disturbing video circulating on social media may shed some light on a suicidal woman’s final minutes aboard a blazing boat she’d set adrift from Halifax Harbor Marina.Investigators on Monday found the body of Nikki Shriver, a 31-year-old mother of three young children, hidden beneath a large cushion on a bench inside the boat. But questions linger about the circumstances that… → Read More

Volusia leaders call for public participation in opioid fight

DAYTONA BEACH — Following a year that saw more than 1,000 drug overdoses in Volusia County, local officials are joining forces to tackle substance abuse treatment and prevention.Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood and SMA Healthcare crisis services director Tore Gintole shared a platform with drug treatment professionals, mothers who lost children to substance abuse and child welfare workers at… → Read More

13-year-old DeLand boy charged in accidental shooting of teen girl

DELAND — A 13-year-old boy who police said accidentally shot a teenage girl last year at a sleepover was charged with a felony.Cameron Cuthrell of DeLand pulled out a handgun in the company of three girls gathered Nov. 17 on the back porch of a Sherwood Drive home, according to a charging affidavit. As he did so, the gun fired. Armoni Faison, then 15, was shot in the left arm and abdomen.Police… → Read More

Daytona will 'Light the Way' with march against human trafficking

A DeBary mother convicted of selling her 15-year-old daughter to her drug dealers for sex in 2015 exposed the existence of human trafficking right here in → Read More

New Smyrna's new oxygen bar draws clients eager for alternative therapy

NEW SMYRNA BEACH — First-time visitors stepping inside the small U.S. Highway 1 storefront may think they’ve opened a door to the future. → Read More

Police: DeLand man neglected parasite-ridden pit bull puppies

A DeLand man was charged with three felony counts of animal cruelty after investigators found three parasite-ridden pit bull puppies in his care.Tiberius → Read More

Police: Daytona man enlisted ex-con friend, both opened fire in Beach St. assault

DAYTONA BEACH — A woman traveling with her boyfriend was pursued, punched and shot at by her ex-boyfriend over the weekend, according to new information detailed in a Daytona Beach police report.Raefiel McIntosh, 34, of Daytona Beach told investigators he got into a car with his girlfriend, Krystal Johnson, at a Daytona Beach gas station and the pair proceeded to North Beach Street, where they… → Read More

Bullets damage unoccupied DeLand police vehicles

Bullets struck three DeLand Police Department vehicles parked outside the station over the weekend.A DeLand officer tasked with changing a West Volusia → Read More

Oak Hill man charged with sexually abusing 2 sisters

An Oak Hill man is charged with sexually abusing two sisters when the girls were younger than 12.Timothy Gallien, 54, sexually battered one sister and → Read More

Daytona Beach woman calls community to action against opioid epidemic

DAYTONA BEACH — At the sober-living home Ginny LaRue operates on Ridgewood Avenue, women in various stages of recovery share stories of transformation.One finally feels equipped to face the fallout of her past choices. Another talks of teaching her children lessons from her own mistakes.LaRue can relate.It’s been more than 15 years since substance abuse shaped her life, but the sympathy she… → Read More

Family's project provides Christmas presents to Volusia's neediest kids

HOLLY HILL — For a family of natural-born go-getters pondering how best to spread Christmas cheer to needy children, the obvious answer was to do it themselves.With transparency, personal connection and maximizing the bang for every buck as priorities, Amanda Balboa and her mother, Laura Balboa, founded One Business, One Family.The project matches area businesses with local families that are… → Read More

Deputies: Volusia jail corrections officer got sexual favors from female inmate for snacks

DAYTONA BEACH — A Volusia County corrections officer was charged Tuesday with sexual misconduct against a female inmate.A 27-year-old inmate at the → Read More

Myth busting is a daily challenge at meadery

DELAND — Debunking myths is mead maker Ann-Marie Willaker's toughest challenge.New customers perusing the menu at Abbey Bar in DeLand, which serves → Read More

Press conference on officer-involved shooting at 1 p.m. today

A man wounded during a gun battle with law enforcement is believed to be in critical condition, a Volusia County Sheriff’s Office spokesman said Tuesday.Dillon Parker, 33, of DeLand, who was wanted on a charge of attempted murder, fled from and then fired on sheriff’s deputies and a DeLand Police officer Monday afternoon. Deputy Wesley Blum and DeLand police Cpl. Anthony Tagle returned fire,… → Read More

Sheriff: DeLand police officer likely shot suspect who fired at deputy

Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood said at a press conference on Tuesday that he believes it was a DeLand police officer who shot a suspect who had opened fire on deputy.Dillon Parker, 33, of DeLand, was shot after he led deputies on a chase and then opened fire on a deputy on Monday, police said. Deputy Wesley Blum and DeLand police Cpl. Anthony Tagle returned fire, striking Parker once in… → Read More