Mayor Adam Barringer, Councilwoman Deborah Denys remain silent

While the Rev. Lorenzo Laws was praying with his congregation  in the black Westside community of New Smyrna Beach tthat was the target of hate recruitment flyers of the KKK, Mayor Adam Barringer, a member of the all-white, all-male Anglers Club,  and County Councilwoman Deb Denys, remained silent and out of media reach.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Pastor Lorenzo Laws of the Allen Chapel AME Church informed his parishioners in Sunday morning's sermon that he was contacted by a senior staffer in the Miami field office of the U.S. Department of Justice and she's making arrangements to personally pay a visit to the city and "get to the bottom" why blacks got the lion's share of Ku Klux Klan flyers.

Photos for Headline Surfer® / Large and small planes use Daytona Beach Internatuonal Airport, which has seen passenger service increase by 1 percent in thr past year.

During October, 50,930 incoming and outgoing passengers traveled through the county-operated airport. This compares with 46,704 passengers in October 2012.

And for for the past 12 months, 602,146 travelers have flown in and out of the airport, a 1 percent increase compared to the year.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Volusia County Chair Jason davis has no doubt the dropping of recruitment flyers in New Smyrna Beach's historically African-American Westside community was a deliberate act and as such sees it as a hate crime.

DELAND, Fla. -- "I move to hire a special counsel to independently advise the County Council on a process and procedure, pursuant to Section 309 of the Volusia County Charter, in order to make investigation into the affairs of county governmental operations, relating to the Waverly matter, in order to determine whether new legislation is required for purchase or additional ethical standards of conduct for public officials in light of the investigation." And so went the motion by Councilwoman Patricia Northey, which was seconded by Councilman Pat Patterson, that got the ball rolling on partisan bickering.

DAYTONA BEACH -- For many Americans who were home the afternoon of Nov. 22, 1963, the CBS television soap opera "As the World Turns" was in its opening 10 minutes minutes, when their world stopped with the news bulletin announced by Walter Cronkite: "Here is a bulletin from CBS News. In Dallas, Texas, three shots were fired at President Kennedy's motorcade in downtown Dallas. The first reports say that President Kennedy has been seriously wounded by this shooting."

EDGEWATER -- With this being the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's assassination, everyone keeps asking: Who killed the president? Was it a lone gunman in Lee Harvey Oswald or as the conspiracy theories suggest, he had help? Did Lee Harvey cart alone? Did shots come from the grassy Knoll? There are many theories.

Photo for Headline Surfer® / Scott Mandis, 33, has not returned to an assisted living facility and is in need of medicine and may be somewhere in the Daytona area. 

DAYTONA BEACH -- The Volusia County Sheriff's Office is seeking the public's help in locating a man with a diminished mental capacity who has been missing for a week and requires medication.

Scott Mandis, 33, was arrested Nov. 18 in DeLand on a trespassing charge and was released from the Volusia County Branch Jail in Daytona Beach the next day, but has been missing since.