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Jim Dinneen, Forough Hosseini & Mark Geallis instill hope for Daytona-area homeless families with plans to convert ex-school to shelter

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Daytona homeless family shelter / Jim Dinneen, Forough Hosseini, Mark Geallis / Headline Surfer®
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- While the controversy surrounding housing for the chronically homeless appears to be going nowhere, the first major hurdle has been eclipsed with renewed hope for an entirely different type of homeless people altogether -- families with children -- with plans to convert the former Hurst Elementary School into a bonafide shelter.

And the leaders of this herculean effort are Volusia County Manager Jim Dinneen,  business entrepreneur Forough Hosseini of ICI Homes and Halifax Urban Ministries Executive Director Mark Geallis.

Florida's Marco Rubio fares poorly in Tuesday primaries 1 day after Sanford stump

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Fla. showdown looming against GOP frontrunner Donald Trump who calls Sunshine State second home

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Marco Rubio holds a campaign rally in Sanford, Florida, on Monday before his flat showing in the Tuesday GOP  vontests that saw frontrunner Donald Trump continue pilinbg up delegates with big wins in the Michigan and Mississippi primaries and Hawaii caucus and Ted Cruz taking the Idaho primary. Rubio did not gain any delegates heading into next Tuesday's big primaries in Florida and Ohio.

 SANFORD, Fla. -- Just one day after making a campaign stop in Sanford, Marco Rubio, once the formidable establishment candidarte for the GOP seen as the strongest consertative Republican standard bearer for the Republican Party rto reclaim the presidency, laid a big goose egg in the Tuesday contests in advance of the upconming Florida primary.

Feds: Former Longwood top cop Thomas Jackson sentenced to 4 years in prison for bribery conviction

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Photos for Headline Surfer® /  Former Longwood Police Chief Thomas S. Jackson is shown in happier times in his blue uniform police uniform and in his mug shot on federal bribery charges leading to his conviction and four years imprisonment during a sentencing hearing at the federal courthouse in Orlando, Florida on Tuesday.
 
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Daytona Rising: Joey Logano will take the checkered flag from hard-charging Dale Earnhardt, Jr. in today's 500

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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- So Republican Donald Trump won big in South Carolina. And Democrat Hillary Clinton did the same in Nevada. But we're not in Darlinton, SC. and what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, right Bernie Sanders?

Spring Break camps for children in Holly Hill & DeBary planned by Volusia County in March

HOLLY HILL, Fla. -- Children can enjoy group activities and field trips with Volusia County’s spring break camps, which are being offered in Holly Hill and DeBary from 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. March 21 through 25. Both camps will offer playground activities, field trips, movies, and arts and crafts. Advance registration and payment are required.

15 years ago: 'After the accident in turn 4 at the end of the Daytona 500, we’ve lost Dale Earnhardt'

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Dale Earnhardt all smiles after winning the 1998 Daytona 500 / Headline Surfer®

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- It was 15 years ago that NASCAR executive Mike Helton, a lumbering, but stoic man delivered the news in a hushed tone that made racing fans burst into tears around the world hours after a crash that at first seemed surviveable: "This is undoubtedly one of the toughest announcements that I’ve ever personally had to make, but after the accident in turn four at the end of the Daytona 500, we’ve lost Dale Earnhardt."