By Dana Swanson
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- The best way to make a movie a blockbuster: Try to censor it. The North Korean hackers that hit Sony so they would pull the movie "The Interview" have seen the last laugh is on them.
As a refresher, Sony got hit by hackers because it was planning to release the Seth Rogen/James Franco/Lizzy Caplan comedy "The Interview."
Headline Surfer® graphic / NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. -- A 30-year-old Edgewater man was killed on this Christmas holiday when he struck a Palm tree with his motorcycle and splitting it in half while "traveling at a high rate of speed in the 500 block of North Riverside Drive, cops said.
ORLANDO, Fla. -- It was an unexpected shocker as reported April 24, by Orlando Sentinel TV columnist Hal Boedecker, with the headline: "Lauren Rowe leaves WKMG effective immediately."
A decade ago, she was known as Lauren Perkins, but has long since married and with two children, she had an intense on-air schedule as the featured anchor on the WKMG channel 6 newscasts.
Photos for Headline Surfer® / NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. -- A 30-year-old Edgewater motorcyclist was speeding while riding a 2008 Honda CBR 600 RR when he struck a palm tree in the 500 block off North Riverside Drive, splitting the tree in half and killing himself in the process on Christmas Day.
Matheu W. Laurrell, who was not wearing a helmet, was pronounced dead at the scene of the 1:50 p.m. accident. The year, make and model of the motorcycle, standard information expected in a fatal crash summary to news media, was not included in a press release sent out by the New Smyrna Beach Police Department later that day.
Headline Surfer® graphic /NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. -- Dawson Porter made the catch of his life and he has the photo to prove it, courtesy of his father, Buzzy Porter, who initially posted the jaw-dropping image on Facebook in October.
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- All one has to do before even reading the Daytona Beach News-Journal opus headlined, "Tourism rebounds: Hotel-tax revenue rises, and experts predict more next year," is look at the display photo: It shows the ferris wheel with nobody on it, an outdoor eatery barren of customers and maybe two dozen people on the boardwalk itself. They say every picture tells a story. This one is no different, especially when the reporting is typical PR drivel.
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Rhys Millen took the checkered flag in the inaugural Red Bull Global Rallycross at Daytona International Speedway, in August, but there wasn't much of a crowd to cheer to cheer him on. In fact, the mighty Speedway, which holds upwards of 150,000 was lucky if there were a few hundred spectators.
NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. -- By now you've probably heard about the 69-year-old woman who allegedly tried to ditch her pooch on Christmas Eve by throwing the gentle creature right out her driver's side door of her blue two-door Oldsmobile while she was passing through an intersection.
DAYTONA BEACH SHORES, Fla. -- A 35-year-old man rang in the new year by completely blowing off his right hand while loading fireworks in a canister on the beach near Minerva Road in Daytona Beach Shores, according to multiple media reports.
