WINDEMERE -- Johnny Damon, who played on World Series championship teams with the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees, lives in Windemere, He has a second home on the beachside of New Smyrna Beach where he enjoys crabbing on the North Causeway.
Photos for Headline Surfer / Georege Zimmerman still has an open case pending against him with Lake Mary police abd that's an alleged incident Sept. 9, in which his estranged wife, Shellie, claims he shattered her iPad while she an her father were moving items from the home the Zimmermans were living in owned by her parents. George Zimmerman was taken into custody that day as shown here, but he was not arrested.LAKE MARY -- The lead defense counsel for George Zimmerman, who was acquitted at trial of second-degree murder in the gunshot slaying of Trayvon Martin in neighboring Sanford, was willing to write out a check to cover $4,400 worth of items his client's estranged wife and her parents claimed were stolen from the home the couple lived in, but Lake Mary cops declined.
DELTONA -- The Volusia County Sheriff's Office is seeking the public's help in locating a mother and her two children who are considered missing and endangered under suspicious circumstances stemming from a domestic violence situation in Lake Mary involving her husband who has since been apprehended and jailed in Daytona Beach.
County Chair Jason Davis, shown in the far left photo on his Harley for Biketoberfest, stands in far contrast to his image on the dais in this Headline Surfer photo. Davis produced a video of the biker rally. DAYTONA BEACH -- First-year Volusia County Chair Jason Davis doesn't like it when people call him a politician. American Badass instead?
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NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- When all is said and done, Southeast Volusia Advertising Director Carl Watson understands what his No. 1 priority is as head of the tourism effort in greater New Smyrna Beach: "It's putting heads in beds."
Watsion added for emphasis, "I think aboiut putting heads in beds when I wake up in the morning and I think about putting heads in beds when I get ready to go to sleep at night."
Headline Surfer graphic / At left is a snapshot of a portion of the arrest report charging off-duty VCSO deputy Stephanie LeClerc with DUI of alcohol or drugs. She failed a field sobriety test and twice refused to submit to a breathalyzer leading to her arrest.NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- An off-duty deputy was arrested Saturday night on a charge of driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs after at least one motorist called 9-1-1 to report she was "all over the road" and even driving in the oncoming traffic lane. When she was pulled over, fellow deputies saw that her 7-year-old daughter was in the front passenger seat.
DAYTONA BEACH -- Bikes, babes and booze are the common denominators for Biketoberfest, the annual Fall motorcycle rally in greater Daytona Beach that draws tourists nesr and far.
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DAYTONA BEACH -- Volusia County Councilman Joshua Wagner was a strong proponent of the new fiscal year budget of $701 million and was pleased to see bipartisan support for it. He tackled the tough questions in Headline Surfer's online newsmaker show, "The Sunday Conversation."
Photos for Headline Surfer / Veteran AMA racer Rick Shaw, 65, was killed as was another motorcyclist, Eric Desy, 45, after their speed bikes collided during a Team Hammer School racing event Thursday at Daytona International Speedway.DAYTONA BEACH -- Two motorcyclists were killed after their bikes collided at high speeds coming off a high bank Thursday at Daytona International Speedway during a private racing school session, occurring on the first day of Biketoberfest, police and track officials confirmed late this afternoon.
Photo for Headline Surfer / Florida's longest serving Congressman, CW Bill Young, shown here at left, died Friday. He was 82.ORLANDO -- Gov. Rick Scott issued a statement earlier tonight from Orlando regarding today's passing of Florida U.S. Congressman C.W. Bill Young, 82, and the the longest-serving Republican in the House, who had been hospitalized in recent weeks at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Washington, D.C.
“Ann and I join all Floridians as we mourn the passing of Representative Bill Young," Scott said in a statement e-mailed to Headline Surfer and other Florida media outlets.
