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By HENRY FREDERICK Headline Surfer DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - One person was killed and two others injured after lone gunman opened fire outside the Sun Plaza Motel on US this morning under cover of darkness, Daytona cops said. One man was pronounced dead sat the scene and two others transp[orted to Halifax Health Hospital with gunshot wounds, but were reported in stable condition and talking to detectives. Names of the deceased and the two other shooting victims were not released.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. -- It comes as no surprise that ex-Sheriff Ben Johnson was endorsed by the Board of Realtors in his run for at the at-large seat on the Volusia County Council. Same thing with endorsing Deb Denys for re-election to her District 3 County Council seat representing New Smyrna Beach, Edgewater, and Oak Hill. 

And right there in the same company is Chase Herbig, one of six first-time candidates for mayor of New Smyrna Beach with no incumbent. And so it was Herbig tabbed Friday by the New Smyrna Beach Board of Realtors as the organization's 2018 endorsement recommended to the voters as the successor to retiring Mayor Jim Hathaway, a second-generation native son whose late father also was mayor of the city by the sea in the 1970s.

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- For 569 consecutive days, Headline Surfer, has had to endure the vindictive separate-and-unequal media policy that has been in place since Sheriff Mike Chitwood took office on Jan. 1, 2017.

Chitwood's media policy applies only to the award-winning 24-7 internet news site, which has won more journalism awards for breaking cops and courts news than all the other media outlets combined dating back to 2012.