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Volusia Sheriff Mike Chitwood sends email with implied threat to Headline Surfer after an inquiry as to whether he secured a PR job for a married woman during an alleged affair

Create: Fri, 01/05/2018 - 00:36
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Volusia News Now
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood sent an email to Headline Surfer with an implied threat Thursday in response to an inquiry by the award-winning internet news outlet as to whether he secured a public relations job for a married woman during an alleged affair.

Oct 29's Headline Surfer breaking news story on traffic-related death of NSB gal Kaelee Morrell accessed by 27,642 online users worldwide

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New Smyrna Beach
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NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. -- Headline Surfer had a lot of prominent Central Florida news stories in 2017, but none tore at the heartstrings of online users more than Oct. 29's story headlined, BREAKING NEWS: New Smyrna Beach Cops: Local gal Kaelee Morrell, 21, killed in hit & run; other driver flees in black Chevy Tahoe.

In the first 24 hours of its posting, the tragic story on the death of 21-year-old Kaelee Morrell was accessed by 27,642 online users around the world. It was the award-winning news site's most viewed story of 2017, with a whopping 42,803 page views. 

SCSO investigators hope new facial reconstruction technology will finally lead to the proper name of a man whose skeletal remains were found near Oviedo 20-plus years ago

OVIEDO, Fla. -- Seminole County sheriff’s investigators have released a facial reconstruction image of a man whose skeletal remains were discovered in a wooded area of unincorporated Oviedo almost 20 years ago.

BREAKING NEWS: Sanford Cops: Woman dead & man clinging to life after shots fired in apparent murder-suicide attempt Henry Frederick Thu, 01/18/2018 - 06:19
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Crime
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SANFORD, Fla. -- A mini-caravan of cop cars and other law enforcement vehicles descended on a quiet neighborhood Wednesday in this waterfront city in response to what appeared to be a domestic-related attempted murder suicide involving gunfire with a young pronounced dead on arrival at Seminole County Regional Hospital and her boyfriend barely clinging to life after surgery.