By JOE COPENHAVER
Photos for Headline Surfer® / Waverly Media park bench ads like this one at the intersection of U.S. 1 and Dunlawton Avenue in Port Orange, dot the landscape in Volusia County.DAYTONA BEACH -- No matter where you drive along the major roadways in the county, invariably you are going to see more than a few of those eye-catching park bench ads.
Such is the successful advertising medium of Waverly Media, which literally has hundreds of benches dotting the landscape that is home to the world's most famous beach, the Daytona 500 and Florida's first 24/7 internet newspaper, HeadlineSurfer.com.
Photo forHeadline Surfer® / This dolphin was being cared for with wet towels and buckets of water after it washed ashore on Ormond Beach.ORMOND BEACH -- A dolphin that washed ashore in early November was rescued by SeaWorld in Orlando, beach officials said.
Ormond Beach resident John Meade was among the first beach-goers to come across the dolphin earlier in the day "tumbling and tossing with the surf."
Ormond Beach resident John Meade was among the first beach-goers to come across the dolphin earlier in the day "tumbling and tossing with the surf."
YouTube video uploads / Headline Surfer® / Left: raw video with focus on students of teacher DAYTONA BEACH -- Dorothy Lytle Kirby certainly remembers where she was on this particular day 28 years ago today to be exact, the day millions in Central Florida and countless more glued to television sets to witness the horror that was the space shuttle Challenger.
Volusia County petition drive organizer & Democrat Ellen Juliano to Attorney General Pam Bondi: 'Put that in your pipe and smoke it'
TALLAHASSEE -- Florida's top court today signed off on the wording of a medical marijuana ballot question that asks Sunshine State voters voters to join nearly two dozen across the country in legalizing the drug for medicinal purposes.
The news was met with excitement by Deltona Democratic Party insider Ellen Juliano, herself a cancer survivor, and a key local organizer in the petition drive to get the medical marijuana ballot initiative drive, who had a personal message for the state attorney general: "Put that in pipe ands smoke it, Pam Bondi!"
OAK HILL, Fla. -- Folk musicians Jeni & Billy will bring the high lonesome harmonies of the Appalachian Mountains in a return visit to Volusia County's smallest incorporated city 13 months from their last stop here.
They will perform at noon Saturday, Feb. 8, at VIA Hall, 126 E. Halifax Ave., Oak Hill, at noon Saturday, Feb. 8. They will perform 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 9, at the Deltona Library.
Headline Surfer® graphic / The body of a man said to be known by police as homeless was found floating near the shore at Bethune Point Park Sunday afternoon as shown in this locator map.DAYTONA BEACH -- A body found floating in the Halifax River on Sunday is that of a homeless man in his late 50s or early 60s, Daytona Beach cops said.
The body was discovered 3:13 p.m. at Bethune Point Park near the shoreline by a member of the Halifax Sailing Association, police said.
"Officers responded to the above location in regards to a body in the water," Daytona Beach police spokesman Jimmy Flynt said in a press release, adding the victim showed no signs of trauma and was believed to be in his latex 50s or early 60s.
Photo for Headline Surfer® / Stanley Rhodes Gainey, convicted drug dealer, is shown here in his Florida Department of Corrections profile.DAYTONA BEACH -- It wasn't his drug dealing that put him in the slammer for the next decade as much as the piling up of the rap sheet.
So goes the story of Stanley Rhodes Gainey, sentenced Nov. 1 by Circuit Judge R. Michael Hutcheson to 10 years in prison as a "habitual felony offender.
Headline Surfer® graphic / A 4-year-old boy drowned in the family's backyard pool Sunday afternoon on South Fairbairn Drive in Deltona as shown in this locator map.DELTONA, Fla. -- A mother's worst fear was realized when she awoke from a nap and found her 4-year-old boy face down in the bottom of the family pool late this afternoon, a Volusia County Sheriff's spokesman said.
Deputies were dispatched to a home on South Fairbairn Drive after receiving a 9-1-1 call at 4:19 p.m. "The boy’s mother told the Sheriff’s Office that she fell asleep, and when she awoke and started looking for her son, she found him at the bottom of the pool," agency spokesman Gary Davidson told Headline Surfer®.
Sheriff's investigators did not release the name of the mother or the child.
