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Beach Safety: 1 swimmer rescued in Daytona & dead manatee washes ashore in New Smyrna

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Beach patrol personnel had somewhat of an eventful day on Tuesday, rescuing a swimmer in the Daytona Beach surf and tending to a dead manatee that washed ashore in New Smyrna Beach.

Chase Tramont after Port Orange Council win: 'I will represent you with great honesty and integrity'

PORT ORANGE, Fla. -- With his Aug. 30 primary victory assured, Chase Tramont is eager to take his seat on the Port Orange City Council dais. 

Orange City Mayor Tom Laputka Pushes Candidacy Of Daytona's Patrick Henry

By HENRY FREDERICK
Headline Surfer

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Orange City Mayor Tom Laputka's run for Volusia County's top elected office came to a less than stellar conclusion when the final votes were tallied in the Aug. 30 primary. Laputka finished dead last among the five candidates.

15th anniversary of 9/11: Never Forget

City
By HENRY FREDERICK
Headline Surfer

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Wendell and Anita Bradford, like millions of Americans, are praying ask for prayers for all of the families, friends and first responders who suffer every day because of the 9/11 attack on our country 15 years ago today. Like millions of Americans across the country and countless people around the globe, they remember the all-too-real horror that came with with two hijacked airliners slamming into the Twin Towers of New York City's World Trade Center, a third airliner striking the Pentagon and a fourth crashing in a vacant field in Shanksville, Penn, by doomed passengers who stormed the cockpit to avert a likely strike on the White House or Capitol Building.

9/11 Twin Towers re-created at World's Most Famous Beach in Daytona

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- An anonymous sand sculpturer re-created the Manhattan skyline, complete with the Twin Towers, on the Word's Most Famous Beach in Daytona in commemoration of the 15th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. It is here where the hard wet sands, nurtured by the incoming surf, make it possible for beach driving to continue along certain stretches of the Atlantic coastline.

 

Academian & Civic Giant in Daytona's African-American community seeking countywide political office investigated for alleged 'brutal' rape

Newspaper Section
By HENRY FREDERICK
Headline Surfer

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Willie J. Kimmons, an academian and civic giant in Daytona Beach's African-American community and a candidate for countywide office in the November elections was investigated on allegations by a woman that he "brutally raped" back in February, but because she didn't report her claim for several days and Kimmons represented by legal counsel would not answer questions by cops investigating it, the State Attorney's Office "no info'd" the case in June.