Rolex 24 at Daytona: 1st Hour: Alex Gurney takes the green flag as the pole sitter before pitting on lap 25

Photo for Headline Surfer® / DAYTONA BEACH -- Alex Gurney was on the pole for the Rolex 24 in his No. 99 DP Corvette as the 24-hour endurance race got under with rhe dropping of the green flag at this adfternoon at Daytona International Speedway.


Photos for Headline Surfer® / Daytona State College has made the grade and then some in awarding associates degrees.
Photo for Headline Surfer® / Skipper Norman Church had history on his side and perhaps a little faith Sunday as he repeated as champion in the 2013 Lipton Cup Regatta.
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Headline Surfer® interviewed Dr. L. Ronald Durham (shown here), the senior pastor of the Greater Friendship Baptist Church of Daytona Beach, on the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., holiday and the non-violence espoused by the civil rights leader back then with the message carried forward today in a 21st-century world.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- The Rev. Lorenzo Laws of the Allen Chapel AME Church and others in the predominantly-African-American Westside community and other parts of this coastal community marched across the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Memorial Bridge and into the Old Fort Park downtown for the MLK holiday vigil.

Headline Surfer® graphic / The AFC and NFC Championship games that saw the Denver Broncos and Seattle Seahawks advance to the Super Bowl was a big story. So was the post-game rant of Seattle DB Richard Sherman.