Top 100 Stories

Oak Hill teen booked in last July's DUI crash on Maytown Road that took the life of his younger cousin

OAK HILL, Fla. -- An 18-year-old has been booked into the Volusia County Branch Jail in Daytona Beach on DUI manslaughter charges in the July 24, 2013, horrific wreck on Maytown Road that took the life of his cousin.

po rob

On April 21, 2014 at approximately 3:54 pm an adult white male wearing dark clothing entered the TD Bank located at 1101 Dunlawton Av in Port Orange. The male handed the teller a note wanting all the money. The male implied he had a weapon, but none was seen. An undisclosed amount of US currency was given to the male, who stuffed the money down the front of his shirt. The male then exited the front of the bank heading towards the east. Thhe male was seen getting into a dark colored sedan and leaving the area. A search of the area was negative for the suspect.

VCSO: Ormond man shot to death inside home; wife tells neighbor shooting was accidental

Homicide locator in Ormond Beach, FL / Headline Surfer®Headline Surfer® graphic / Sheriff's homicide investigators are awaiting autopsy results before deciding if criminal charges will be levied in the early Easter morning shooting death of Sanford Olson at his residence at 7 Seabreeze Drive in Ormond by-the-Sea as shown in this locator map. His wife told a neighbor he was accidentally shot.
 

ORMOND BEACH -- The Volusia County Sheriff's Office's Major Case Unit is continuing to investigate the fatal shooting early Sunday morning of a 55-year-old man in Ormond-by-the-Sea, just north of the Ormond Beach city limits.

The victim's wife was being interviewed about the death at 7 Seabreeze Drive after receiving a call at 2:52 a.m. about a shooting that had happened. When they arrived on scene, deputies discovered he had been shot to death.

County Council vote on rival developers' shopping centers put on hold until May 1

Newspaper Section

Party Lines political notebook / Headline Surfer®

Campaigns of politicians bankrolled by millionaire developer Mori Hosseini

Cartown showing County Council members bowing to rich developer Mori Hosseini / Headline Surfer®Doug Daniels / Headline Surfer®Deb Denys / Headline Surfer®Pat Patterson / Headline Surfer®Pat Northey / Headline Surfer®Headline Surfer® cartoon / Copyright protected / County Council members Doug Daniels, Deb Denys, Pat Patterson andPat Northey, shown left to right in the smaller inset photos have all had their campaigns bankrolled by millionaire and ICI Homes builder Mori Hosseini, shown below the 24/7 internet newspaper's cartoon that depicts the obvious conflict of interest of the politicians with Hosseini.
 

NMori Hosseini / Headline Surfer®DAYTONA BEACH -- ICI Homes builder Mori Hosseini was in the Volusia County Council chambers to speak against a rival developer's plans for a strip mall anchored by a Publix just a couple of miles from his proposed lavish Woodhaven mixed-use community.

Fishing tournament for for kids in South Daytona & Daytona Beach Shores to be held May 17

DAYTONA BEACH SHORES -- Registration is under way for the 17th annual Kids Fishing Tournament at the Sunglow Fishing Pier, 3701 S. Atlantic Ave.

The event is co-sponsored by the South Daytona and Daytona Beach Shores police departments. All children participating must be pre-registered at the South Daytona P.D., where the forms can be picked up and dropped off, 1672 S. Ridgewood Ave., South Daytona.

Word on the street in Daytona Beach: 'What does Easter mean to you?'

Question: What does Easter Mean to you?

Jim Oddie of Wilbur-by-the-Sea / Headline Surfer®Respondent:
Jim Oddie
Residence:
Wilbur-by-the-Sea
Response:
"To all of you biblical folks, Passover is the only prescribed Holy Day to be observed. The rest (Easter, Christmas, et. al.) are nothing more than man-made holidays."
 
Kathy Kershaw of Daytona Beach, Fla. on meaning of Easter / Headline Surfer®Respondent:
Kathy Kershaw
Residence:
Daytona Beach
Response:
"A time to reflect on what my faith means to me and a time to spend with family/friends in quiet forgiveness mode."

Did the feds charge the wrong man in the Daytona-area mortgage fraud scheme?

ORLANDO -- Everything looks great on paper in drawing up conspiracy theories in a high-profile trial, especially when it involves the feds who like to use descriptive terms like "mastermind," "raid" and "ring leader."
You've seen know, those middle-aged Clint Eastwood-looking guys like the blue button jackets with the yellow acronym "FBI" letters on the backs, as they walk by TV cameras and newspaper photographers, pretending like they don't see them as they carry boxes of documents and computers from some office complex or warehouse they've raided.

'Perry Mason Moment' in federal court in Orlando favors defendants in Daytona-area mortgage-fraud trial

Fort Lauderdale Attorney defending woman in Jacksonville stand your ground case that made national headlines has fired a torpedo into the fed govt's case here early on

Attorney Bruce Zimet of Fort Lauderdale appears on CNN / represented stand your ground / Headline Surfer®Stephanie Musselwhite / Headline Surfer®Ramara Garrett & Jim Sotolongo of Waverly Media / Headline Surfer®Photos for Headline Surfer® / High-profile defense attorney Bruce Zimet, shown here with CNN's Anderson Cooper is representing Marissa Alexander in an upcoming re-trial ordered after her conviction in 2012, for firing a gun in her estranged husband'sdirection, citing Florida's stand your ground law as a defense. Zimet also is representing Stephanie Musselwhite in the Daytona-area mortgage fraud trial under way in Orlando,  where she and co-defendants Jim Sotolongo and Ramara Garrett, are accused of defrauding several banks.
 

ORLANDO -- Even though she held her own and then some in opening statements to the jury in U.S. District Court in Orlando against three of Florida's top defense attorneys in a complex mortgage fraud trial two days earlier, Thursday was not a good day for prosecutor Tanya Williams.