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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Who needed fireworks any way when thy were enough sparks and some flames to boot at the finish of the Coke Zero 400 just after Dale Earnhardt Jr., the checkered flag: A race car ripped down a section of fencing that sprayed debris into the stands injuring several fans in the process at Daytona International Speedway early this Monday morning.

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Joie Chitwood, III, president of Daytona International Speedway, was evasive in answering questions during a press conference early Monday after the last-lap crash that sent Austin Dillon's No. 3 Chevrolet airborne and into the catch fence at the end of the Coke Zero 400, tearing a section out in the process with debris causing minor injuries to 13 fans in the grandstands before the car tumbled back onto the track upside down.

EDGEWATER, Fla. -- You may call me crazy or paranoid but I don’t believe for one second that the United Airlines computer “glitch” and the one on Wall Street at the same time were both just flukes.

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Volusia County’s plan for removing cars from the beach rolls like a juggernaut toward conclusion advertised as always, by the well paid minions of the Daytona Beach News-Journal in advertising through county tax dollars.

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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Two toddlers -- a boy and a girl -- died shortly after they were found unresponsive in a backyard swimming pool at a home near Daytona Beach late this morning morning, the victims of apparent drownings, a spokesman for the Volusia County Sheriff's Office said.

Sheriff’s deputies were dispatched to 1406 Valencia Ave., after the Sheriff’s Office received a frantic 9-1-1 call about two children not breathing after they were found in the pool. Deputies and paramedics began arriving at the scene within 3 minutes, and the children -- a 1-year-old boy and 2-year-old girl -- were rushed to area hospitals.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. -- Perception is the reality former New Smyrna Beach Mayor Adam Barringer is counting on if he's to have any chance in his quest for Congress against frontrunner and GOP rival Sandy Adams.

Barringer let it be known through an intermediary in trying to woo a prominent Republican party insider from Volusia County to join his campaign that he had amassed $125,000 as a sign that he was serious and with this insider's help he could prevail.

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EUSTIS, Fla. -- Gov. Rick Scott has appointed William R. Giffing, Jr. to the Early Learning Coalition of Lake County.

Giffing, 39, of Eustis, a financial advisor with Wells Fargo Advisors, succeeds Jeanie Rowin on the Early Coalition.

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EDGEWATER, Fla. -- Volusia County Sheriff's investigators are seeking the public's help in identifying a suspect who fraudulently used a woman's credit card information to make purchases at two stores in Edgewater, an agency spokesman said.

"The suspect pictured used the victim's information (last) Thursday at Publix and Dollar General stores on Ridgewood Avenue in Edgewater," Sheriff's spokesman Andrew Gant told HeadlineSurfer.com, in supplying a still surveillance photo with information on the case.

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PORT ORANGE, Fla. -- The body of a woman was found floating in the Halifax River early Wednesday near the Seven Seas Marina at 3300 S. Peninsula Drive, police said.

Here's a synopsis of what cops came across as described in an email to HeadlineSurfer.com from Port Orange Police Lt. Scott Brozio: "Responding officers found an unidentified female floating in the vicinity of the marina. Port Orange Detectives responded to the scene and the Volusia County Medical Examiner’s Office was contacted to remove the deceased."

EDGEWATER, Fla. -- OK, Donald Trump is a jerk, but he is the only person running for office who says it like it is whether people like it or not and that’s refreshing. All the other Republicans' comments are tempered with their political correctness which is old and tiring to many of us.