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Race fans can get ‘free’ first look at NASCAR ‘Next Gen’ Cars at Daytona International Speedway during Jan. 11 test session

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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- In anticipation of the 2022 points-race debut of NASCAR’s ‘Next Gen’ car in the Daytona 500, race fans can visit iconic Daytona International Speedway on Tuesday, Jan. 11, to get a ‘FREE’ first look at the machines that will bring the stock car look back to NASCAR, say track officials.

Trial Judge: Othal Wallace will stand trial in 2023 on murder charges in gunshot slaying of Daytona Beach cop Justin Raynor

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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Finally, there's a movement afoot to bring accused cop killer Othal Wallace to justice with a capital murder trial now scheduled for April 2023 in the gunshot slaying of Daytona Beach police officer Jason Raynor. 

75. Remembering late 4-time Indy 500 champ Al Unser's crash in '78 race at Daytona where his airborne car just missed bellyflopping into Lake Lloyd 

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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- "Go jump in a lake" certainly wasn't what car racing legend Al Unser Sr. was thinking after he skidded off the track at Daytona International Speedway during a 1978 IROC race, hit a berm, and went airborne before a belly-flop landing that destroyed the car.  

74. Port Orange cops: Man arrested on a warrant in December accusing him of sexually abusing 2 girls, ages 14 & 11; jailed on bonds totaling $1M

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PORT ORANGE, Fla. -- A 24-year-old Port Orange man was arrested in mid-December on a warrant at his apartment on Orange Boulevard charging him with two counts of sexual battery of a child and has been held at the Volusia County Branch Jail on bonds totaling $1 million. 

73. Winter Springs Woman gets 8 years in federal pen for embezzling $1.16 million from her employer; using the dough to buy a BMW & a Porsche

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ORLANDO, Fla. -- When taking into account the cost of living, it would take the average American worker 65 years to earn a million dollars over a lifetime, based on an annual salary of $35,000 a year.