DEBARY -- I will start by saying I am not an expert on foreign affairs like former Ambassador (and fellow Headliner Surfer blogger) Stan Escudero. He knows practically everything like one of those professors you had in college who is like a walking encyclopedia.
NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- I offer thanks to the late, great Groucho Marx for that title quotation, which appears to aptly describe what we are now learning about our current Federal Executive branch.
DAYTONA BEACH -- On Sunday, I spent the better part of the day at the Ocean Center covering the New Smyrna Beach High School, from which I am processing close to two dozen videos. This is the fifth year our 24/7 internet newspaper has covered the achievements of the A-rated school, which saw its largest graduating class ever and richest in terms of college scholarships and grants.
DAYTONA BEACH -- When an elderly woman hit the gas pedal instead of the brakes and careened into the Intracoastal Waterway near the Brannon Center, Adam Barringer and two other men jumped in and rescued her from an almost certain drowning death as her car began sinking. That was five years ago.
By Sally GilliesDAYTONA BEACH -- Why are we electing liars, cheaters and thieves?
Henry Frederick, the journalist who operates Headline Surfer (HeadlineSurfer.com, NSBNews.net, VolusiaNews.net) is right. Journalism has changed greatly since he began his reporting career more than 25 years ago. And that change has not been for the better as shown with the recent Volusia League of Cities awards dinner.
OAK HILL -- This little city, famous for Mosquito Lagoon and more recently the demise of its police force, has a connection to Super Bowl lore. It's the winter home of Miami Dolphins great Larry Csonka and his name was bandied about quite a bit before the 2012 Super Bowl between the NY Giants and NE Patriots.
DAYTONA BEACH -- Headline Surfer has the top stories in three Volusia County cities this morning in the Google news directories, a testament to the power of new media.
Heading the Daytona Beach and New Smyrna Beach directories is the 24/7 internet newspaper's story headlined "Volusia League of Cities calls cops on internet newspaper to protect embattled mayor from glare of media spotlight."
Photo by David S. Williams for Headline Surfer / Stetson's Kevin Fagan, shown at far left, and teammate Patrick Mazeika, were both named to the 2013 Louisville Slugger Freshman All-America team.
Headline Surfer locator / Brian A. McLane, 34, shown at left in VCBJ mug shot, was arrested Friday in the suffocation murder of his 70-year-old roommate, Richard F. Carton, four days earlier in their residence at 1709 S. Ridgewood Ave., lot No. 8, Edgewater police said.EDGEWATER -- A 34-year-old man was arrested Friday on a charge of first-degree murder in the suffocation of his 70-year-old roommate four days earlier, Edgewater cops said.
On Friday, Edgewater police arrested 34 year old Brian A. McLane, Carton’s roommate, and charged him with first-degree murder after cops said he confessed to killing the older man by suffocating him until he was dead.
DAYTONA BEACH -- The avalanche of scandals threatening to engulf the Obama Administration cannot be wished away, no matter how many smiling diversionary speeches the president reads to us from his teleprompter.
