DELAND -- In what could aptly be titled, "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly," Volusia County Council members sang the praises of Daytona Beach in landing a Hard Rock hotel/cafe, ripped a consultant's tourism report as a scam and then sheepishly caved to cities fighting tougher CRA regulations, literally in the 11th hour Thursday.
This 10-acre vacant beachfront property at 801 S. Atlantic is on the fast track for a $100 million Hard Rock hotel and cafe expected to open just in time for the 2016 running of the Daytona 500.DAYTONA BEACH -- Like a gourmet meal, a Hard Rock hotel/cafe complex is going to be sandwiched between the World's Most Famous Beach and the super speedway with the high banks where they run the Great American Race.
Headline Surfer file photo / New Smyrna Beach native Jim Humphrey, shown at far left, enjoys pancakes and good conversation with Rick Newell at the 2009 fundraiser for the New Smyrna Beach Museum of History.NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- The Pancakes in the Park scheduled for 7 to 11 a.m. Saturday has been re-scheduled until the following Saturday because of the rainy weather. So please mark your calendars for 7 to 11 p.m. Saturday May 11, at the Old Fort Park.
The cost is $6 and includes pancakes, sausage, coffee, and orange juice under the oaks. A Bluegrass group will provide entertainment.
DELAND -- Sometimes bad things happen to good people. After all, they say nice guys finish last. With that said, somebody walked off with our video camera and tripod Thursday night outside the Thomas C. Kelly Administration Center.
Headline Surfer snapshot graphic / This locator map shows the location, 444 Seabreeze Bourlevard, of a deliberate hit-and-run fatality at 3:13 a.m. Sunday.
DAYTONA BEACH -- Cops are continuing their search this early Monday morning for the driver of a small red convertible car who they say deliberately struck and killed a man over the weekend in the rear parking lot of 444 Seavreeze Boulevard.
Police were vague in a brief press release with few details as to what happened. But this is as best what Headline Surfer could surmise from the release: A small red convertible car and a black Range Rover were at the light at Seabreeze and Oleander early Sunday heading westbound when words were exchanged between the driver of the red car and two pedestrians. The driver of the red car got out and a fight broke out.
NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla -- A woman was killed and a man critically injured after they were ejected from their pick-up truck in a rollover early this morning on the South Causeway Bridge, New Smyrna Beach police said.
Headline Surfer photo by Henry Frederick / This surfer passes by the New Smyrna Beach Boardwalk as the sun rises over the Atlantic Ocean about 6:40 a.m. Monday.
NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- The husband who survived a rollover crash early Monday on the South Causeway Bridge that resulted in the violent death of his wife, told the Daytona Beach News-Journal they had been partying on Flagler Avenue's "Cinco de Mayo," an alcohol-fueled festival sponsored by the Flagler Merchants Hospitality Group and funded in part by CRA-taxpayer dollars.
