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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- It's that time of year again when when several coastal cities in Volusia County hold Christmas Parades. And Headline Surfer® presents snapshots from its social media network of friends from these festive parades over the weekend in Daytona Beach, New Smyrna Beach and Port Orange.

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Bikers have come to Daytona Beach for decades hoping to see someone riding in on that one-of-a-kind motorcycle truly stands out in the crowd. The head turner.

And there's no better representation than that of the red, white & blue: The Captain America chopper from the 1969 counter-culture hippie biker movie, "Easy Rider," starring Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper and Jack Nicholson.

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SANFORD, Fla. -- On Nov. 5, just minutes before high noon, a then-unknown gunman brazenly walked into the Harbor Community Bank, 251 West First St., and stuck a handgun in the face of a teller before fleeing with the loot in one hand and gun in the other.

"The suspect brandished a firearm and demanded money from a bank employee," Sanford cop Ronny Neal told Headline Surfer® and other Central Florida media outlets that day, "It is unknown the amount of money obtained. Furthermore, the suspect fled the scene and is considered armed and dangerous."

Social media image draws global outrage

SOUTH DAYTONA, Fla. -- Cops in the town of Cary, NC, confirmed they have issued a court summons for Katharine F. Lemansky, after she admitted that she duct-taped the mouth of her dog the day after Thanksgiving while in that municipality and posted a picture of the chocolate lab on a Facebook page under the alias "Katie Brown" of South Daytona.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. -- Surfer and photographer Kem McNair captured a unique photo setting with an osprey and a radar buoy near the South Jetty where surfers and sharks co-exist in the curling waves.

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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla -- Yet again, the Daytona Beach News-Journal has taken the liberty of claiming a tourism event has drawn record crowds -- this time the Daytona Turkey Run.

But the newspaper's own photos of the event don't back up the claim, which is attributed to the event's PR flak. Here is what was written in part the story headlined, Car show draws record turnout:"Sunday marked the conclusion of the 42nd Annual Daytona Turkey Run, which drew the biggest turnout the classic car show and swap meet has seen."

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - Kyle Busch edged Timothy Peters at the line by a race-record .016 seconds to win the 2014 NextEra Energy Resources 250 truck race at Daytona International Speedway during February's Speedweeks, leading up to the Daytona 500.

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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- On this Black Friday, one day removed from Thanksgiving, an official with the Volusia County Beach Safety Ocean Rescue said there were reports of thefts in the vicinity of the Daytona Beach Bandshell.