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Orlando cops busy with 2 major crime scenes: gay club mass shooting gunman dead; singer Christina Grimmie's killer commits suicide

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Carnage: 20 dead in what's described as 'act of domestic terrorism' Mass shooting in gay club in Orlando overnight / Headline Surfer®K. Grimmie, trhe young sister shot to death in Orlando after concert / Headline Surfer®

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Orlando police are dealing with two major incidents: A mass shootinmg art a gay club as shown by all the cop cars before dawn and Saturday's slaying of singer Christina Grimmie shown here. Both images are courtesy of the Orlando PD. 

ORLANDO, Fla. -- This is one of those crazy weekends where the carnage is on oh so real and when the cops are clearly on the front lines. 

Islamic terrorism: Slaughter of innocents in Orlando latest, but won't be the last

Iranian hostage crisis part of ongoing Jihadism / Headline Surfer®
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The hostage crisis in Iran came to an end after 444 days. On Jan. 20, 1981 the remaining Americans held in Tehran were released. The conflict had plagued President Jimmy Carter's presidency and would shape America's relationship with Iran for decades to come. CBS News looks back at Walter Cronkite's original report on the end of the crisis in the weekly segment, 'The Way it Was.' A Daytona Beach native 

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Let’s be clear. Radical Islam is at war with the United States and the West. 

Blood drive Tuesday outside Volusia County Courthouse in DeLand Henry Frederick Mon, 06/13/2016 - 21:19
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Blood drive in DeLand to help replenish blood banks in wake of Orlando terror attack / Headline Surfer®DELAND, Fla. -- There will be a Blood Drive on 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesday at the Volusia County Courthouse, 101 N. Alabama Ave. The Big Red Bus will be parked in the short term parking area along New York Avenue (State Road 44).

Americans not immune from terror even on homefront after Orlando massacre

Musings columnist Darlene Vann / Headline SurferHeadline Surfer community columnist Darlene Vann, shown here, reflects in her 'Musings' the violence seen on cable news about terrorist attacks in far away places like France and Belgium are now happening on our own home front -- Orlando.

EDGEWATER, Fla. -- One always thinks tragedy won’t strike anywhere near, but the terrorist attack in Orlando by a "lone wolf" gunman who shot and killed 49 people and wounding 53 more in a gay nightclub proves to those of us here in Central Florida how wrong an assumption that is.

Neb. family's vacation horror: No sign of 2-year-old boy snatched by gator at Disney resort & dragged into lagoon

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LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. -- For law enforcement and rescue personnel on scene this morning, it was the proverbial "hope against hope" that a 2-year-old Nebraska boy snatched in the jaws of an alligator near the shore of posh Disney resort lagoon Tuesday night and dragged into the murky waters would be found alive.

New Smyrna Beach cop whose boy was killed in car crash understands dad's anguish in son's Disney gator death

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Headline Surfer® photo illustration /  NSBPD's Mark Severance with his wife, Denise (right),along with their son, Cody, killed in a 1988 car accident. Severance reflects on Father's Day as it relates to the turmoil on this special day of a total stranger, Matt Graces of Nebraska, whose son, Lane, was killed by a gator at a Disney Resort five nights earlier.
 
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