DAYTONA BEACH SHORES -- Registration is under way for the 17th annual Kids Fishing Tournament at the Sunglow Fishing Pier, 3701 S. Atlantic Ave.
The event is co-sponsored by the South Daytona and Daytona Beach Shores police departments. All children participating must be pre-registered at the South Daytona P.D., where the forms can be picked up and dropped off, 1672 S. Ridgewood Ave., South Daytona.
DAYTONA BEACH -- It is truly amazing how for more than a year, the Daytona Beach News-Journal has misled the public in its reporting of the accusations levied against Waverly Media principals Jim Sotolongo and Ramara Garrett.
Headline Surfer® cartoon / Copyright protected / County Council members Doug Daniels, Deb Denys, Pat Patterson andPat Northey, shown left to right in the smaller inset photos have all had their campaigns bankrolled by millionaire and ICI Homes builder Mori Hosseini, shown below the 24/7 internet newspaper's cartoon that depicts the obvious conflict of interest of the politicians with Hosseini.
DAYTONA BEACH -- ICI Homes builder Mori Hosseini was in the Volusia County Council chambers to speak against a rival developer's plans for a strip mall anchored by a Publix just a couple of miles from his proposed lavish Woodhaven mixed-use community.
Headline Surfer® graphic / Sheriff's homicide investigators are awaiting autopsy results before deciding if criminal charges will be levied in the early Easter morning shooting death of Sanford Olson at his residence at 7 Seabreeze Drive in Ormond by-the-Sea as shown in this locator map. His wife told a neighbor he was accidentally shot.ORMOND BEACH -- The Volusia County Sheriff's Office's Major Case Unit is continuing to investigate the fatal shooting early Sunday morning of a 55-year-old man in Ormond-by-the-Sea, just north of the Ormond Beach city limits.
The victim's wife was being interviewed about the death at 7 Seabreeze Drive after receiving a call at 2:52 a.m. about a shooting that had happened. When they arrived on scene, deputies discovered he had been shot to death.
On April 21, 2014 at approximately 3:54 pm an adult white male wearing dark clothing entered the TD Bank located at 1101 Dunlawton Av in Port Orange. The male handed the teller a note wanting all the money. The male implied he had a weapon, but none was seen. An undisclosed amount of US currency was given to the male, who stuffed the money down the front of his shirt. The male then exited the front of the bank heading towards the east. Thhe male was seen getting into a dark colored sedan and leaving the area. A search of the area was negative for the suspect.
OAK HILL, Fla. -- An 18-year-old has been booked into the Volusia County Branch Jail in Daytona Beach on DUI manslaughter charges in the July 24, 2013, horrific wreck on Maytown Road that took the life of his cousin.
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Photos for Headline Surfer® / Margie Patchett and Maureen France are the co-founders of Volusia Tax Reform.DAYTONA BEACH -- Volusia Tax Reform, a grassroots organization established to challenge municipal and county government spending, is recognized by Headline Surfer® as part of its 5th anniversary celebration for VTR's political activism and government watchdog standing.
Inset photo by Headline Surfer® / Will the jurors in the Volusia County mortgage fraud case believe government witnesses Sidney Coton and Christopher Mencis, who have already pleaded guilty and subsequently testified in exchange for lighter sentences or will they believe defendant James Sotolongo, shown at left in the display photo with his attorney, who didn't take the stand in his own defense? The jurors begin deliberating on Friday morning.ORLANDO -- Federal prosecutor Tanya Wilson apologized to the jury of 12 on Thursday in closing arguments for the cast of unsavory characters she had to rely on to make her case of mortgage fraud against the three individuals from the Daytona Beach-area on trial in the courtroom.
Photo for Headline Surfer® / U.S. prosecutor Tanya Wilson is moving from the US District Court in Orlando to the Orange County courthouse downtown where she will leave her post as a federal government prosecutor to a county judgeship.ORLANDO -- Gov. Rick Scott has appointed Assistant U.S. Attorney Tanya Davis Wilson to an Orange County judgeship.
Wilson, 45, is the lead prosecutor for the U.S. Attorney's Office in the trial against James Sotolongo, Ramara Garrett and Stephanie Musselwhite, all accused of conspiring to defraud four banks of nearly $13 million in mortgages involving seven upscale residences in the Daytona Beach area. The case went to the jury today.
