Headline Surfer Aug. 23 primary endorsement: Jake Johansson of Port Orange, candidate with 'ethics & integrity' for at-large Volusia County Council
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PORT ORANGE, Fla. -- He's patient, professional, and principled.
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Port Orange South Daytona Chamber of Commerce appoints former mayor Don Burnette as new President & CEO of the organization
Henry Frederick
Tue, 08/12/2025 - 09:04
City
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PORT ORANGE, Fla. -- The Port Orange South Daytona Chamber of Commerce proudly announces the appointment of Don Burnette as its new President and Chief Executive Officer, effective Aug. 25, 2025.
Port Orange Cops: The gunman who shot two Walgreens Pharmacy employees before fatally turning the gun on himself was an apparently disgruntled customer
Henry Frederick
Fri, 05/09/2025 - 13:15
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PORT ORANGE, Fla. -- Port Orange cops have identified the gunman who shot two employees of the Walgreens store before turning the gun on himself as Daniel Lee Asseff, 60, who was a disgruntled customer in the pharmacy section when he started shooting.
BREAKING NEWS: Port Orange Cops: Two Walgreens employees shot & wounded inside; gunman found dead out front of self-inflicted gunshot
Henry Frederick
Wed, 05/07/2025 - 20:30
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PORT ORANGE, Fla. -- Two Walgreens store employees were shot and wounded, and the shooter took his own life in the front parking lot at 1620 before cops arrived.
JFK assassin Lee Harvey Oswald perhaps the most famous perp walk in US history but how about a boy?
Henry Frederick
Fri, 04/18/2025 - 16:59
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PzORT ORANGE, Fla. -- Perhaps the most famous example of a "perp walk" in the US is the one involving Lee Harvey Oswald, who was fatally shot by Jack Ruby on Nov. 22, 1963, while being escorted from the Dallas city jail to the county jail after being arrested for gunning down a Dallas police officer and the earlier assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
No April Fool's Joke: Sheriff Mike Chitwood goes on camera to promote himself with launch of 1st AI metal detector at Atlantic High in Port Orange
Henry Frederick
Tue, 04/01/2025 - 20:30
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Photos for Headline Surfer / TOP: The Atlantic High School campus in Port Orange, Florida, where advanced-technology metal detectors were used for the first time on Tuesday, April 1, 2025.
Obituary: Wanda Binz, 69, of Port Orange, loving mother, grandmother & devoted member of the Ponce Inlet community
Henry Frederick
Sat, 03/29/2025 - 03:19
City
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PORT ORANGE, Fla. -- Wanda Binz, 69, of Port Orange, Florida, passed away peacefully in her sleep on Tuesday, March 25, 2025, surrounded by her loving family and friends in her final days.
Natalie Negron, DO joins Halifax Health – Primary Care Port Orange
Sera King
Wed, 08/24/2022 - 11:16
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DAYTONA BEACH, FLA. – Natalie Negron, DO, a board-certified family medicine physician, has joined the medical team at Halifax Health – Primary Care Port Orange, 1165 Dunlawton Ave., Suite 105, Port Orange.
Retired DBNJ Editor Pat Rice takes to Facebook seeking answers from County Chair Jeff Brower on shady political dealings in advance of Tuesday's primary
Henry Frederick
Thu, 08/18/2022 - 11:56
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Pat Rice, the former editor of the Daytona Beach News-Journal, took Volusa County Chair Jeff Brower to task in a lengthy Facebook group write-up for a series of political moves widely seen as shady to benefit his own slate of candidates in the 2022 election cycle with Tuesday's primary looming.
'Appearances Can Be Deceptive' a classic line in Coen Bros movie that aptly applies to real-life political farce in Volusia County leadership
Henry Frederick
Fri, 07/29/2022 - 06:51
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- The 2008 Coen Brothers film, "Burn After Reading" is a political dark comedy farce wrapped around a disc containing memoirs of a former CIA analyst (John Malkovich) that falls into the hands of Linda Litzke (Frances McDormand) and Chad Feldheimer (Brad Pitt), two gym employees who see a chance to make enough money for her to have life-changing cosmetic surgery.