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498. Windemere home to MLB player Johnny Damon who occasionally stays in New Smyrna Beach to go crabbing

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Johnny DamonWINDEMERE -- Johnny Damon, who played on World Series championship teams with the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees, lives in Windemere, He has a second home on the beachside of New Smyrna Beach where he enjoys crabbing on the North Causeway.

BREAKING NEWS: Deltona mom and two kids murdered

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Source: Jailed husband confessed to killings, but won't say where bodies are

Yessinenia Suarez and her two kids missing / Headline SurferLuis Toledo, jailed in domestic violence arrest in Lake Mary / Headlinre SurferDELTONA -- The Deltona mother and her children missing since Wednesday are confirmed dead, the victims all murdered, Headline Surfer® has confirmed.

Volusia County Sheriff's investigators have yet to recover the bodies of 28-year-old Yessenia Suarez and her two children, 8-year-old Michael Otto and 9-year-old Thalia Otto, while the suspected killer, Luis Toledo, the woman's husband, remains jailed without bail on a domestic violence charge the before she and the kids disappeared.

Eatonville-based Pastor Willie Barnes to speak at Greater Friendship Baptist in Daytona Beach

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Macedonia church minister's Sunday visit part of 113th anniversary celebration

"And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it." -- Matthew 16:18

Rev. Willie Barnes of Macedonia Baptist Church in Eatonville / Headline SurferPhoto for Headline Surfer® / Greater Friendship Baptist Church is celebrating its 1113th sanniversary with a Sunday visit from The Rev. Willuie Barnes, as shown here, and pastor of the Macedonia Baptist Church of Eatonville.

DAYTONA BEACH -- The Rev. Willie C. Barnes of Eatonville will be the featured speaker for the 11 a.m. Sunday service commemmorating the 113th anniversary of Greater Friendship Missionary Baptist Church.

Greater Friendship is located at 539 George W Engram Blvd. Barnes is the pastor of Macedonia Baptist Church in Eatonville.

 He graduated from the University of Central Florida with a B.S. degree in electrical engineering.

Wrestling ReWind's weekly top 25 rankings from Daytona: WWE's John Cena, AJ Lee on top

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John Cena wins at Hell in a Cell PPV shown in Daytona's Oyster Pub / Headline Surfer®Shawn Michaels leaves after costingf Daniel Bryan WWE championship at Hell in a Cell / Headline SurferHeadline Surfer® photos>/ John Cena won the WWE heavyweight championship over Alberto Del Rio at Hell in a Cell pay-per-view and as a result is No. 1 in the inaugural Wrestling ReWind Top 25 Rankings. Daniel Bryan lost to Randy Orton for the WWE championship, thanks to sweet chin music from special referee Shawn Michaels shown at right. AJ Lee retained her Divas championship over Brie Bella to claim the No. 1 spot in Headline Surfer's women's top 10 rankings.

DAYTONA BEACH -- With his victory over the WWE heavyweight champion Alberto Del Rio in Sunday's Hell in a Cell pay-per-view in Miami, John Cena can rightfully claim the top spot in Wrestling ReWind's inaugural weekly Top 25 rankings of the best of the best.

Seminole County School Board member Diane Bauer dies

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Sanford-based district announces passing of community leader

Seminole County School Board member Diane Bauer with Marco Rubio in 2010 / Headline SurferSeminole County School Board member Diane Bauer with M Rubio / Headline SurferPhotos for Headline Surfer / Diane Bauer gets a hug from then-U.S. Senate candidate Marco Rubio during her 2010 re-election for the district 1 seat on the Seminole County School Board. Bauer died Tuesday night.

SANFORD -- It was three years ago when Diane Bauer was running for re-election in her non-partisan district 1 seat on the Seminole County School Board that she got a hug from Marco Rubio on her way to yet another victory.

Orlando Magic lose opener on the road at Indiana, 97-87

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Orlando lose opener on the road / Headline Surfer1st video by 09Sports uploaded from YouTube / 2nd video by uploaded NBA2K14 Official/ Headline Surfer / Highlights of the Orlando Magic's season opener loss at the Indiana Pacers, 97-87. Here is an NBA video link for game highlights: http://www.nba.com/video/games/pacers/2013/10/29/0021300001-orl-ind-recap.nba.

ORLANDO -- The Orlando Magic have little hope of winning more than a third of the games on their 82-game schedule, if the opening night game loss on the road Tuesday night against the Indiana Pacers, 97-87, is any indication.

Volusia County Chair Jason Davis calls out cowards who question his Bronze Star for Valor

Volusia County Chair and Bronze Star Medal of Valor recipient Jason Davis / Headline SurferBy Jason Davis
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Jason Davis received the Bronze Star for Valor in Desert Storm / Headline SurferDAYTONA BEACH -- Why my military service and earning of the Bronze Star for Valor became part of the official meeting record: It came to my attention, that an individual, or certain individuals, were questioning my service to our country. None had the intestinal fortitude to ask me, in person for documents, but chose to make false statements and accusations. Cowards have different ways of doing things and pursuing their personal agendas.

None had the intestinal fortitude to ask me, in person for documents, but chose to make false statements and accusations. Cowards have different ways of doing things and pursuing their personal agendas.

From Kissimmee to New Smyrna Beach, Halloween message from law enforcement is vigilance

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Olivia and Nicholas Catheline of New Smyrna dressed for Halloween / Headline SurferHeadline Surfer® video / New Smyrna Beach will hold its Halloween Parade at 4 p.m. today on Canal Street. You can watch highlights of last year's parade by clicking the video. At left, Olivia and Nicholas Catheline are dressed as a cowgirl and a gingerbread man, respectively, for this Halloween. 

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Olivia and Nicholas Catheline already had their costumes on this morning and Halloween doesn't even begin until dark. But that's because they have parties at school, said their proud mom, Misty Burris Catheline.

 

New Smyrna Beach-area Fall Beach Weeks tourism swings into November

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Headline Surfer®/NSBNews video produced by Multimedia Editor Serafina Frederick / The 24/7 internet newspaper captured the 2011 Flamingo Follies as shown in this video. Below, the South Causeway Bridge carries traffic to and from the beach.

New Smyrna Beach bustling with beachgoers / Headline Surfer®NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- The Fall Beach Weeks now swings into November with lots of great activities for locals and visitors alike, including the upcoming Flamingo Follies on Flagler Avenue.

Beach Weeks is the initiative of the Southeast Volusia Advertising Authority, which uses collected bed tax revenues from overnight hotel and condo vaction rentals to provide tourism activities to generate out of town visitors to the area.

 

DeSantis needs to re-think rhetoric with $5B in food stamp cuts

Congressman Ron DeSantis / Headline Surfer®DAYTONA BEACH -- Politicians like Ron DeSantis and John Boehner are so full of themselves and their self-rightous ideology when it comes to Republican rhetoric about why Food Stamp subsidies need to be cut. This is what House Speaker Boehner told The New York Times in a story published today regarding GOP-sponsored legislation narrowly passed with the threat of a presidential veto that would cut a whopping $5 billion in food stamp subsidies: “This bill makes getting Americans back to work a priority again for our nation’s welfare programs."