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ORLANDO -- The Magic's Dwight Howard was traded to the Los Angeles Lakers, coach Stan Vandy Gundy was fired and the team was bounced from the first round of the playoffs. For the Miami Heat, Florida's other NBA team, however, saw LeBron James lead his team to the promised land with an NBA championship.

Headline Surfer experienced a major spike in users, no doubt fueled by the trending story on John's Appliances pegged to the Mayan calendar calamity tale. 

DAYTONA BEACH -- Headline Surfer's mid-afternoon Friday story on John's Appliance and Bedding's blow-out sale announcement pegged to the Mayan calendar calamity was a big hit locally and around the world well into the start of the weekend.

Adam Barringer sarcastically shook rookie officer's hand while telling him, 'I just want to thank you for being a p - - - k'

Headline Surfer photo by Serafina Frederick / New Smyrna Beach Mayor Adam Barringer, shown between his wife, Shannon Sumner and City Commissioner Jason McGuirk, aboard a city firetruck during the annual Christmas parade, had some choice words for a rookie cop when he was stopped from trying to cut through a closed side street to beat the traffic after the parade. PARADE VIDEO INSIDE...

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Is the city's mayor above the law? That's the rhetorical question going around as news spreads regarding Mayor Adam Barringer's treatment of a rookie cop that included a reference to him as a sexual part of the male anatomy when he wasn't allowed to cut through a barricaded side street following the city's Christmas parade.

Christmas video interview story on Daytona Beach Mayor Mayor Derrick Henry trends strongly in that city's online listings

A still photo taken from a surveillance camera provided to media by New Smyrna Beach police shows robbers confronting the young clerk early Wednesday inside TK's Right Stop, 218 N. Dixie Freeway.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- The cops are looking for five people who robbed a clerk at T.K.'s Right Stop early this morning and fled with an undisclosed amount of cash.

Here is a synopsis of the 3 a.m. strong arm robbery at TK's, 218 N. Dixie Freeway, also known as US1, as described by New Smyrna Beach Police Sgt. Christopher Roos: A dark-colored car with five people in it pulled up to the store. Three of them walked inside and accosted the 20-year-old clerk, Charles Michaux, with two of the assailants them jumping on him and holding him down while the third grabbed a cash box before they all three bolted out the door and hopped into the car, which sped off.

Headline Surfer photo by Serafina Frederick / A young mom is coaxed into the chilly New Smyrna Beach surf by her boy.