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Daytona 200 bike race gets green flag for 2015 run at Speedway Henry Frederick Mon, 12/01/2014 - 15:53

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Daytona International Speedway has reached a sanction agreement with the American SportBike Racing Association to hold the 74th annual Daytona 200 motorcycle race in 2015 during Bike Week, track President Joie Chitwood announced today.

New Smyrna Beach Mayor Adam Barringer raised taxes while not paying his own tax bills

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NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. -- Mayor Adam Barringer led the vote to raise property taxes to support the municipal budget back in September while not paying his own taxes, Headline Surfer® has learned after reviewing public records.

Beach Patrol: Two teen boys first victims of shark bites in New Smyrna Beach surf this year

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NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. -- With lots of young surfers in the water for a surfing contest Friday, it was inevitable someone was going to get bitten by a shark.

Remembering MLK: Keeping the Dream Alive in Daytona

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NEWSMAKER Q&A: Dr. L. Ronald Durham

Pastor L. Ronald Durham on MLK holiday / Headline Surfer®Headline Surfer® interviewed  Dr. L. Ronald Durham (shown here), the senior pastor of the Greater Friendship Baptist Church of Daytona Beach, on the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., holiday and the non-violence espoused by the civil rights leader back then with the message carried forward today in a 21st-century world.
 

DAYTONA BEACH -- And it shall come to pass, that when they make a long blast with the ram’s horn, and when ye hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city shall fall down flat, and the people shall ascend up every man straight before him.

Mayor Adam Barringer invisible after KKK furor, but takes center stage in MLK celebration Henry Frederick Mon, 01/20/2014 - 22:48
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Mayor member of all-white, all-male Anglers Club hearkening back to Jim Crow era

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Mayor Adam Barringer speaks during 2014 MLK event / Headline Sufer®MLKcrowd in New Smyrna Beach / Headline Surfer®NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- The Rev. Lorenzo Laws of the Allen Chapel AME Church and others in the predominantly-African-American Westside community and other parts of this coastal community marched across the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Memorial Bridge and into the Old Fort Park downtown for the MLK holiday vigil.

VCSO: Seizure of 4-pounds of pot leads to three arrests near Ormond Beach

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ORMOND BEACH, Fla. -- Undercover narcotics agents arrested a 24-year-old man at a home near Ormond Beach after a search warrant revealed four pounds of marijuana in the kitchen, the Volusia County Sheriff's Office said, adding the drugs had been delivered by an unknown person earlier that day.

Andy Ferrari latest candidate to vie for Deltona-area seat on Volusia County Council in 2014

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DELTONA, Fla. -- A fourth candidate has entered the field to run in the 2014 elections for the District 5 seat on the Volusia County Council representing the Deltona area with incumbent Pat Northey term-limited and instead challenging at-large Council member Joyce Cusack of DeLand.