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Photo Opp - Daytona Beach-area insurance exec Tony Grippa mugs it up with former GOP presidential candidate George Pataki

Create: Fri, 10/21/2016 - 04:22
Author: Henry

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Local insurance magnate Tony Grippa of Brown & Brown Inc., was all too eager to showcase a picture-perfect display shot of himself mugging it up with former New York Gov. George Pataki, who was unable to make much of a dent in the crowded 2016 GOP field for president, with Trump out-muscling even the likes of of former Florida Gov. Jed Bush and US Sen. Marco Rubio, the early favorites.

2-time Daytona 500 champion Dale Earnhardt Jr. joining NBC broadcast booth for Talladega & Martinsville races

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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- NASCAR fans here in Daytona and across the country will see and hear Dale Earnhardt Jr at Talladega and Martinsville, but it will be in the announcing booth as opposed to his No. 88 Chevrolet,as he remains sidelined from for the duration of the season recovering from an early-season concussion in a crash.

News-Journal allows itself to be conduit for promotion of Capri as successor to Chitwood as Daytona chief of police amid a murder no less

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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- It has become all too obvious that the Daytona Beach News-Journal is allowing itself to be used as a conduit for the promotion of Craig Capri as Sheriff-elect Mike Chitwood's successor for police chief during a murder mo less.

Daytona Beach cops: Mainland HS student struck & killed in crosswalk on way to school

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- A 19-year-old special needs student at Mainland High School was struck and killed Monday in a nearby crosswalk while walking to school after apparently missing her bus, Daytona Beach cops said.

Ex-county chair candidate & 'retired' AT&T tech Greg Gimbert warns linemen of customers he terms 'eaters' as they work to get greater Daytona power fully restored in Matthew's wake

Create: Thu, 10/13/2016 - 04:42
Author: Henry

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- He was once an AT&T outdoor tech himself who "retired" or so he claimed in his failed campaign in the August primary for Volusia County chair. And so Greg Gimbert in a social media treatise to linemen, has nothing but admonition and disdain for utility cutomers he dismisses as "eaters" who have been without electricity since Hurricane Matthew's wrath six days ago.

Sunshine State's Death Toll Mounting in Matthew's Wake: Daytona boy among 3 killed Monday in addition to 5 Floridians who perished in Friday's hurricane

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- How ironic that the parents of 9-year-old Jose Angel Barrios would learn well after the fact that thick grey-colored packing tape affixed to keep windows from breaking during Friday's crush of Hurricane Matthew -- would continue to hold the glass in place three days later as he lay lifeless on his bed in the family's home at 113 Mason Park Drive, the result of acute carbon monoxide poisoning from a generator in another room being used because the electricity had not yet been restored, Daytona Beach cops said.

 

Matthew Fatality: DeLand woman posted hurricane Facebook meme that eerily foreshadowed her own death the next day

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Betty Jean Lappin Cogley was upset by the social media message her sister, Susan Lappin Mathes of DeLand, posted the day before she was killed when a tree fell on her after she went outside to feed her animals during Hurricane Mathew.

Volusia County: Hurricane Matthew wind threat could be 'extreme' for greater Daytona Beach; beachside residents urged to evacuate; bridges to be locked down Thursday eve

Create: Wed, 10/05/2016 - 16:35
Author: Henry
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Powerful Hurricane Matthew is forecast to move northwest through the lower Bahamas this afternoon, then take aim on East Central Florida and approach the coast, passing very close to greater Daytona Beach's coastline coastline Thursday night and Friday.
 

Daytona-area beach driving supporter livid with county's banning of cars on hard sands 2-3 days ahead of Hurricane Matthew's expected arrival

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Jim Oddie is livid Volusia County government officials have moved so quickly to ban beach driving for the rest of the week and possible though the weekendd if there is significant damage as a result of Hurricane Matthew's expected torrential rain and strong winds.