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Headline Surfer snapshot graphic / Headline Surfer's story on an armed robbery Saturday night led the Google News Directories for New Smyrna Beach, Florida as shown here at left.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- When it comes to breaking news -- day or night -- or anytime around the clock for that matter, Headline Surfer, the 24/7 award-winning internet newspaper has you covered via HeadlineSurfer.com.

Headline Surfer is the smallest of the media outlets that pursue breaking news, but is very competitive nonetheless and typically during the overnight hours -- 1 a.m. to 5 a.m. -- when the other media outlets have sent their reporters home for the night.

By the time they can get crews assembled to go out and get the news during these overnights, Headline Surfer already has it trending in the major search engines and on our Facebook social media pages.

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla -- There's the deeper story inside the sex scandal story that Daytona Beach Police Chief Michael Chitwood kept from the media in "gift wrapping the news" of the resignation of Sgt. Penny Dane. So says the union head of the female sergeant who resigned a week ago after admitting to posting online semi-nude photos of herself in uniform as well as nude shots onto a virtual adult sex network via city-owned computers while on duty.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- The sun is setting on July and making way for August, but before the month is over lets take a look at what July brought us for tourism fun.

Yes, the Fourth of July fireworks were were short, thanks to an errant projectile that landed on a tiki hut and caught fire to the straw and thatch roof, but they certainly were pretty while they lasted. 

Though the fireworks were to go for about 15-18 minutes, at about the 8-minute mark one of the projectices didn't climb as high as expected from the barge where it was shot from in the Intracoastal Waterway and landed on the roof of the tiki hut on the site of the ciry's former administrative office building, alao known as the AOB site.

Headline Surfer locator map / The deadly blaze occurred 1:30 a.m. Monday at an apartment complex in the 1400 block of South Nova Road.

DAYTONA BEACH -- A 47-year-old man was found dead early this morning in his dwelling unit in the Ridgecrest Park Apartments, officials with the Daytona Beach Fire Department said.

Firefighters responded to 9-1-1 calls at 1:30 in the apartment complex in the 1400 block o South Nova Road.

After forcing their way into the apartment where the flames originated, firefighters found a 47-year-old man lying face door behind the door and unconscious and not breathing, apparently overcome by heavy smoke and unable to get out in time.

Unable to revive him during transport to Halifax Health Medical Center, the man was pronounced dead a short time later in the emergency room. The victim's name was not released while authorities try to make contact with his closest relatives. 

Click video above: The first guest voice-over to appear in the video promo above for Investigation Discovery network's "Deadly Affairs" show on killer Virginia Larzelere is that of reporter Henry Frederick (far left), followed by attorney Ted Doran.

DAYTONA BEACH -- Investigation Discovery tonight will highlight the case of Virginia Virginia Larzelere, the former death row inmate, who could be released as early as next year from prison despite being what the state called the the mastermind in the gunshot slaying of her Edgewater dentist-husband.