The Roundtable Online Show (Episode 9)
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The Roundtable videos are produced by Headline Surfer Multimedia Editor Serafina Frederick
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Traffic Advisory: Lane closures continue on Interstate 4 for loop installation
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ORLANDO -- The paving project on westbound Interstate 4, on the south side of Orlando, continues and lane closures are in store Sunday night into Monday morning, as crews put detection loops into the pavement.
Assistant chief named for Volusia County Fire Services
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DELAND -- Howard Bailey, a 20-year veteran of Volusia County Fire Services, has been promoted to deputy fire chief.
Bailey started his career with Volusia County Fire Services as a firefighter/emergency medical technician in 1992 and was promoted to division chief in 2004. He has a master's degree in public
September winding down with elections looming
NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- There is a lot that is good about the elections process and things that are not so good.
You would think that in the 21st century -- the digital age -- finding a listing of candidates for every race in Volusia County would be a snap -- easily accessible by Internet search. So unless I'm completely clueless, could somebody please tell me where I could find such a listing?
Heron takes flight in NSB
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Photo for Headline Surfer by Barbara Senti Mudge / A heron takes flight from this balcony on a sunny Friday at Venetian Bay in New Smyrna Beach.
Volusia County Sheriff's deputies step up traffic safety enforcement involving school bus stops
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Headline Surfer photos by Henry Frederick / A bus leaves New Smyrna Beach High school for the afternoon commute as shown in this recent shot while students wait for their turn to board as shown in the inset photo.DELAND -- With at last eight children hit by cars while walking or riding bicycles to or from schools across Volusia County, Sheriff Ben Johnson wants to make sure there are no such mishaps involving children coming onto or off school buses because of motorists not obeying the the rules of the road.
With that concern in mind, he's ordered his deputies step up traffic enforcement to protect students getting on and off school buses.
Authorities: Elderly Ormond Beach woman drowned in submerged car in retention pond near her residence
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The Volusia County Sheriff's Dive Team recovers the submerged vehicle with the body of Rose Bruce in it, from a retention pond near her Ormond Beach residence as shown here, first with the initial discovery at far left and with the removal of the vehicle in the inset photo.
ORMOND BEACH -- It was a freak accident that led to the tragic death of 79-year-old Rose Bruce, the Walmart employee missing since Monday night for nearly three days before a team of divers found her body in the back seat of her car in a 9-foot-deep retention pond across from her residence.
NSB cops: Man busted with meth lab in back seat of vehicle
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NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. -- A 42-year-old man was arrested on drug charges Friday after he was stopped in the 300 block of the North Causeway and a meth lab was found in the back seat of his vehicle, New Smyrna Beach cops said.
Volusia School Board Chairman Al Williams dies at age 70
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DELAND, Fla. -- Al Williams, chairman of the School Board of Volusia County, died this morning at Halifax Medical Center in Daytona Beach surrounded by family and friends. He was 70 years old.
Daytona Beach News-Journal charging for online access
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DAYTONA BEACH -- The News-Journal and its sister papers are following the lead of The New York Times in charging readers to access its online content as print media struggles to find a happy medium with keeping its broadsheet advertising in place while losing readers in droves to the Internet.
Ironically, The Times unloaded its Florida papers in a fire sale to the News-Journal's parent company, Halifax Media, earlier this year.