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DAYTONA BEACH − Joseph Ronca, a longtime Volusia County public school administrator, will be the principal of the Basilica School of Saint Paul for the 2015-16 school year. Ronca, who retired from the public school system last year, has 34 years of experience in elementary school education, according to a press release from the Diocese of Orlando.

TOKYO - Toshiba's CEO and eight other executives resigned Tuesday to take responsibility for doctored books that inflated profits at the Japanese technology manufacturer by 152 billion yen ($1.2 billion) over several years.Toshiba Corp. acknowledged a systematic cover-up, which began in 2008.

DAYTONA BEACH - The 1 Million Cups entrepreneurs forum on Wednesday morning will feature a presentation on a Palm Coast startup called My Town.According to the website for the 1 Million Cups Daytona Beach chapter, the company was launched this year and describes itself as a modern-day "welcome wagon" that helps newcomers become "Flagleridians. We do this by working together with local business(es) allowing us to promote them to the new residents."The forum - from 9 to 10 a.m. at Cinematique, 242 S. Beach St.

Embry-Riddle's three-year transition to the NCAA has officially completed its first year, the school announced Tuesday.The procedural progress, approved by the NCAA Membership Committee, was deemed “a great day for Embry-Riddle and our athletic program” by John Phillips, ERAU's director of athletics.“We're excited to move another step closer toward full membership in NCAA Division II and the Sunshine State Conference,” said Phillips.Embry-Riddle, ticketed to gain official NCAA and Sunshine State Conference status in 2017, will join the conference this year as a prov

The West Palm Beach doctor accused of allowing a Daytona Beach chiropractor to use the physician's name and federal drug license to prescribe pain pills to chiropractic patients pleaded not guilty to the scheme in federal court Tuesday, court records show.John Peter Christiansen was arrested two weeks ago for his role in defrauding Medicare along with local chiropractor Joseph Wagner, federal records show.

Hear a poet, take a river cruise, hear acoustic rock . . .1. HEAR A POET: The Atlantic Center for the Arts' your word Teen Creative Writing Residency offers high school students from across the country the opportunity to study under distinguished authors in poetry, fiction and genre writing.Bangladeshi-American poet Tarfia Faizullah is one of the master writers with the current your word program.Faizullah will read from her work and conduct a Q&A session at 7:30 p.m.

SAN FRANCISCO — The U.S. Department of Justice on Tuesday formally dropped its criminal prosecution of Barry Bonds, Major League Baseball's career home run leader.The decade-long investigation and prosecution of Bonds for obstruction of justice ended quietly with the DOJ's one-paragraph court filing announcing it would not ask the U.S. Supreme Court to consider a lower court's reversal of his felony conviction.A jury convicted Bonds in 2011 of obstruction of justice for giving a meandering answer to a federal grand jury when asked about injections.

DAYTONA BEACH - Brown & Brown Inc. saw its revenues rise 5.4 percent year-over-year in the second quarter while generating a net income of $61 million, down slightly from $61.8 million the same period last year.CEO J.

DAYTONA BEACH - A Nevada businessman has bought the plant and equipment of the former Daytona Flexible Packaging company.Robert Reinders said he plans to launch a new business that fills disposable pouches with juice drinks and other food and beverage products. The new company - RCR Beverages - will do business under the name Blue Kangaroo.Reinders paid $1.4 million for the 30,000-square-foot warehouse and five-acre property it sits on at 811 Fentress Court in Daytona Beach, according to Volusia County property records. The seller was the estate of the late Joseph Fisher.

BUNNELL - Opponents of a proposed a zoning amendment near the Sea Ray Inc. manufacturing plant in Flagler Beach will have one more chance to stave off the company's plans to build a new parking lot for employees.The expansion effort moved one step closer to reality Monday night.Flagler County commissioners voted unanimously to adopt a land-use change and passed first reading of a pair of rezoning measures, which set the stage for the lot to be built on an undeveloped 24.4-acre tract just south of the factory.Commissioners are expected to take a final vote on the project Aug. 3.