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2016 ReWIND: Top 100 Stories for greater Daytona, Sanford & Orlando (16-20)

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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Headline Surfer is counting down the Top 100 stories of 2016 in the greater Daytona Beach, Sanford and Orlando metro area otherwise known as the I-4 corridor of Central Florida through Volusia, Seminole and Orange counties. 

Seminole County Sheriff Dennis Lemma thanks his mentor & predecessor Don Eslinger who swears him in at SCSO headquarters in Sanford

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SANFORD, Fla. -- In a private ceremony on Monday with public offices closed for the New Year's holiday, longtime Sheriff Don Eslinger carried out his last official duty: He swore in his protege and Chief Deputy Dennis Lemma into office Monday morning.

HOLIDAY DEATHS A MYSTERY: Scant few details as to why an Ormond Beach couple died outside their SUV on side of I-4 in DeLand with 3 small sons unharmed inside

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DELAND, Fla. -- There are far more questions than answers to why an Ormond Beach husband and wife died shortly after they were found unconscious outside their maroon SUV on the side of I-4 eastbound with the flashers on, which drew the attention of a Florida trooper on New Year's Eve. A full 48 hours later there's absolutely nothing new as to how or why they died.

DeLand man, 87, who suffered facial fractures in home invasion earlier this month, has died
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Henry Frederick Fri, 12/23/2016 - 23:02

DELAND, Fla. -- An 87-year-old man injured earlier this month during a home invasion of his home near DeLand by a lone burglar that left him clinging to life with multiple fractures to his face and head died today, a spokesman for Sheriff Ben Johnson said.

Live Stream: Hillary Clinton addressing overflow partisan crowd at Sanford (FL) Civic Center

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SANFORD, Fla. -- Hillary Clinton is speaking to a large overflow partisan crowd inside the Sanford Civic Center here in downtown Sanford saying she would defeat ISIS, mentioning the Pulse massacre in nearby Orlando and that she was a US Senator during the 9/11 that toppled the World Trade Center towers.

Then she quickly turned to gun violence, norting Trayvon Martin was gunned down in Sanford. It is Sanford where the Black Lives Matter movement was borne as a result, but she avoided any mention of it.

Headline Surfer, Central Fla's award-winning 24/7 internet news outlet, endorses Donald J. Trump for President

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SANFORD, Fla. -- Headline Surfer, the award-winning 24/7 internet news outlet serving the greater Daytona Beach-Orlando metro area based in Sanford, proudly endorses Donald J. Trump for President of the United States and urges voters here in Central Florida and those across the US to vote for the Republican nominee on Nov. 8. 

15th anniversary of 9/11: Never Forget

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By HENRY FREDERICK
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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.

SUNDAY CONVERSATION: Seminole County Sheriff-Elect Dennis Lemma: had 'opportunity to ascend the ranks'

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Seminole County Sheriff-Elect Dennis Lemma is interviewed Friday for the Sunday Conversation. 

SANFORD, Fla. -- Dennis Lemma went through the motions of running for sheriff of Seminole County, but it was a forgone conclusion the job would be his once the incumbent, Don Eslinger, decided to retire.