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The National Weather Service has issued a wind-chill advisory for Central Florida that will make it feel like the mid 20s overnight.

DELAND -- Emergency officials throughout Volusia County will participate in a statewide tornado drill at 10:10 a.m. Wednesday. The drill is conducted by the state Division of Emergency Management with the National Weather Service to test emergency officials’ alert warnings and notifications.

“We always have the threat of severe weather, but it intensifies beginning in February,” said Charlie Craig, Volusia County Emergency Management director. “While tornados are possible in summer thunderstorms, our most violent storms have occurred from February through May.”

The Bush League boys, clinging to their life-raft obstruction of Obama’s Ship of State, are really pissed off these days.

And no wonder. “Too much government” is threatening them -- too much Democratic refusal to overlook oversight of illegal activity.

The real, on-the-back, governmental interference in the form of wiretaps on private conversations, e-mails, credit information and illegal targeting of journalists and whistle-blowers doesn’t seem to spell “interference” to the advantaged few.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Guitarist Peter Fletcher will perform at the New Smyrna Beach Regional Library at 2 p.m. Saturday. The concert is free and open to the
public.

Fletcher, who has studied guitar since he was 7, received a Master of Music degree from the Eastman School of Music and received the
school’s graduate award twice. He has appeared on Turner Broadcasting Systems’ “Storyline” and Fox-affiliate WAGA-TV’s “Good Day, Atlanta.”

A moment of silence was observed Tuesday at the start of the New Smyrna Beach City Commission in honor of Ed Cooper who died Jan. 23. He was 85.

The recognition was asked of the more than 200 residents in attendance in the DeBerry Room at the Utilities Commission building on Canal Street by Mayor Sally Mackay who described Cooper as an exemplary citizen.

Cooper died at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, his wife, Vivian Cooper, said Saturday.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Police are looking for a young white man in a blue-hooded sweatshirt who robbed the Winn-Dixie store pharmacy of Oxycodone pills at 9:45 p.m. Saturday.

The man entered the store at 1835 State Road 44, walked over to the pharmacy and handed the pharmacist a note and said he had a gun on him.

Courtesy video and photo. State Attorney John Tanner hired Jon Kaney, the preeminent expert civil attorney on Florida open records law, to represent his interests in keeping a grand jury report investigating his office sealed. Kaney is the counsel for the Daytona BeachNews-Journal and married to the newspaper's publisher Georgia Kaney. The News-Journal challenged the legality of keeping the grand jury report sealed through the hiring of outside counsel. Tanner ultimately won, but lost his elected office to relatively unknown R.J. Larizza, who was backed by police unions opposed to the incumbent. 

DAYTONA BEACH -- State Attorney John Tanner won a battle with the help of an old friend, but lost a war.