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DAYTONA BEACH -- Volusia County Chair Ed Kelley has led the cheers for giving away millions in taxpayer money to fund nearly half the cost of a 10-sory office building  for Brown and Brown Insurance, the seventh most lucrative insurance company on the planet.

in the Daytona Beach News-Journal just as he did fortaking cars off a stretch of the world's Most Fafor the use of millions in taxpayer monies to be use to pay nearly half the cost of a 10-story office building. 

LAKE MARY, Fla. -- Some two dozen students, teachers and staffers joined Seminole County School Board Chairwoman Amy Lockhart in receiving, sorting and packing disaster relief supplies for Puerto Rici brought in by countless citizens last Friday and Saturday in a large bay on district property at 239 Rinehart Road.

Most of the items were loaded into three larget U-Haul trucks and transported by plane Tuesday from Orlando-Sanford International Airport to San Juan. The equivalent of a truckload remained behind forr the expected arrival of serveral thousand Puerto Rican families in Central Florida over the next few weeks and months, said Lockharrt and school leaders from other school districts along the I-4 corridor, including Osceola, Orange and Volusia counties.

DELTONA, Fla. -- Zenaida Denizac has raised $5,780 in the past 12 days for relief aid to her brethren in her hometown of Mayaquez, Puerto Rico.

YouTube download / AP video / Rebecca Sun, an editor from The Hollywood Reporter, discusses the latest avalanche of allegations against Harvey Weinstein, including reactions from Gwyneth Paltrow and Angelina Jolie. (Oct. 11)

YouTube download / AP video / Rebecca Sun, an editor from The Hollywood Reporter, discusses the latest avalanche of allegations against Harvey Weinstein, including reactions from Gwyneth Paltrow and Angelina Jolie. (Oct. 11)

YouTube download / AP video / Rebecca Sun, an editor from The Hollywood Reporter, discusses the latest avalanche of allegations against Harvey Weinstein, including reactions from Gwyneth Paltrow and Angelina Jolie. (Oct. 11)

PORT ORANGE, Fla. -- The Tomoka Landfill and West Volusia Transfer Station will resume normal operating hours beginning Saturday, Oct. 14.

YouTube download / AP video / A convicted cop killer who sued Alabama over its lethal injection method was put to death Thursday night. Torrey Twane McNabb, 40, was convicted of killing Montgomery police officer Anderson Gordon in 1997, shooting him five times. (Oct. 20)

YouTube download / AP video / Astronauts went spacewalking Friday to provide some necessary focus to the ISS's robot arm. The main job for the spacewalking duo was to replace a blurry camera on the new robotic hand that was installed during a spacewalk two weeks ago. (Oct. 20)