NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- As has been the norm for five years, Headline Surfer's headlines dominate the online news directories and search engines.
Photos for Headline Surfer / Stephon Doby, 29, and Rachel Rose, 27, were arrested Thursday in connection with a prescription pill robbery of an acquaintance and her friend near DeLand.DELAND -- When Volusia County Sheriff’s deputies responded on Aug. 12 to a disturbance call at the intersection of Cassadaga Road and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Beltway near DeLand, they discovered that several people had been arguing on the side of the road over prescription drugs.
Photos for Headline Surfer / The 7,000 square-foot Piggotte Community Center, 504 Big Tree Road in South Daytona, is named for former Mayor Joe Piggotte, shown here.
SOUTH DAYTONA -- Former South Daytona Mayor Joe Piggotte died June 3, 2008, at the Hospice Care Center in Port Orange. He was 81.
Piggotte's passing comes in at No. 487 in Headline Surfer's countdown of the Top 500 stories as part of the 24/ internet newspaper's 5th anniversary.
Editor's Note: The following was written for the Counseling Center of New Smyrna Beach and Shane Porter by Mimi Hall
NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- If you’re an adult who’s been diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, commonly called ADHD, chances are you’ve started to address some major issues: procrastination, lack of organization, distractions, sees-awing energy levels, managing your money.
DAYTONA BEACH -- Events in Egypt have put President Obama on the horns of a dilemma. He has no good choices and very little influence. Vacuous speeches will not help and empty threats and pronouncements will only make him look impotent. Yet he feels that he must do something to influence the outcome of the current violent power struggle which risks civil war and possibly the fragile peace, if that is the right term, between the Arab states and Israel.
Headline Surfer photo / Nearly five dozen handguns have been taken off the streets of Volusia County in the 2013 Kicks 4 Guns program and that's exciting news to Sheriff Ben Johnson.DELAND -- One of the handguns had been reported stolen to a local police department in 2011, turned up in an annual turn-in-your-gun program with no questions asked.
A total of 58 guns were voluntarily turned in to the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office in Thursday's annual Kicks 4 Guns crime-fighting program, which encourages citizens to turn in unwanted guns to law enforcement for safe and proper disposal with no questions asked.
Headline Surfer photos by Henry Frederick / Beer and burgers were the main ingredients of a Jimmy-Buffet-themed fundraiser Saturday by the New Smyrna Beach and Edgewater Rotary clubs.NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Skyler Vyse was home from leave with the Coast Guard where he's stationed in Port Arthur, Texas, to visit his parents, his daughter and girlfriend.
And what better opportunity to celebrate the visit with all in one setting than a fundraiser featuring gourmet cheeseburgers and cold beer at the Brannon Center.
NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- He was once the kingpin of Flagler: the financial planner, one-time chamber president and owner of the now-defunct weekly Observer newspaper.
That is until Robert Lott landed in bankruptcy court last year, having owed more than half a million bucks to his creditors, including two widows, one of them 82 years old who sued him alleging he defrauded her. So here was Lott, same short-sleeve ratty shirt and worn-out tan pants, taking it upon himself to escort Headline Surfer from the Brannon Center during a fundraiser of the New Smyrna Beach and Edgewater Rotary clubs.
NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- I find it interesting and disturbing that the Daytona Beach News Journal has published six stories maligning Headlines Surfer, its publisher Henry Frederick and County Chair Jason Davis, especially since many more important happenings in this county have been ignored by this biased print newspaper in favor of its influential friends that provide advertising, especially taxpayer revenues.
