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Headline Surfer videos produced by Serafina Frederick / Then-County Chair Frank Bruno gives his 'State of the County' address in 2012 at the Ocean Center. Jason Davis gives his first Thursday. 

DAYTONA BEACH -- It might be a tall order to expect Jsason Davis to deliver his first state of the county address Thursday with the glitz and the glamour that were the calling cards of his predecessor, Frank Bruno.

This 10-acre  vacant beachfront property at 801 S. Atlantic is on the fast track for a $100 million Hard Rock hotel and cafe expected to open just in time for the 2016 running of the Daytona 500.

DAYTONA BEACH -- Like a gourmet meal, a Hard Rock hotel/cafe complex is going to be sandwiched between the World's Most Famous Beach and the super speedway with the high banks where they run the Great American Race.

Headline Surfer file photo / New Smyrna Beach native Jim Humphrey, shown at far left, enjoys pancakes and good conversation with Rick Newell at the 2009 fundraiser for the New Smyrna Beach Museum of History.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- The Pancakes in the Park scheduled for 7 to 11 a.m. Saturday has been re-scheduled until the following Saturday because of the rainy weather. So please mark your calendars for 7 to 11 p.m. Saturday May 11, at the Old Fort Park.

The cost is $6 and includes pancakes, sausage, coffee, and orange juice under the oaks. A Bluegrass group will provide entertainment.

Headline Surfer snapshot graphic / This locator map shows the location, 444 Seabreeze Bourlevard, of a deliberate hit-and-run fatality at 3:13 a.m. Sunday.

DAYTONA BEACH -- Cops are continuing their search this early Monday morning for the driver of a small red convertible car who they say deliberately struck and killed a man over the weekend in the rear parking lot of 444 Seavreeze Boulevard.

Police were vague in a brief press release with few details as to what happened. But this is as best what Headline Surfer could surmise from the release: A small red convertible car and a black Range Rover were at the light at Seabreeze and Oleander early Sunday heading westbound when words were exchanged between the driver of the red car and two pedestrians. The driver of the red car got out and a fight broke out.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla -- A woman was killed and a man critically injured after they were ejected from their pick-up truck in a rollover early this morning on the South Causeway Bridge, New Smyrna Beach police said.