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New Smyrna Beach surf & sand: Chosen as 'Best Beach'

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7th straight year for tourism destination award by Orlando Sentinel

Headline Surfer video produced by Serafina Frederick / Here is a view of the beach in New Smyrna Beach near the South Jetty, closest to the Ponce Inlet Lighthouse shot on Labor Day 2012, a stretch of beach where animals are allowed. Below, Elizabeth Gifford, marketing and project manager for the Southeast Volusia Advertising Authority, poses with a plaque after receiving the award on behalf of the SVAA.

Elizabeth Gifford of SVAA holds plaque for best beach award / Headline SurferBest Beach Award SVAA New Smyrna Beach / Headline SurferNEW SMYRNA BEACH -- For the seventh year in a row, New Smyrna Beach has the distinction of being the "Best Beach" as chosen by the readers of the Orlando Sentinel.

Under the "Best Bets" competition done by the daily metro newspaper annually, New Smyrna's sand and surf is No. 1, hands down.  

So while Daytona Beach may have the distinction of being coined, "The World's Most Famous Beach," New Smyrna Beach clearly has earned the moniker, "Best Beach.

"So while Daytona Beach may have the distinction of being coined, "The World's Most Famous Beach," New Smyrna Beach clearly has earned the moniker, "Best Beach."

Internet newspaper to leave New Smyrna Beach for Lake Mary with broader focus on Central Florida

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'Tortious interference' by NSB gov't; piling on by News-Journal cripple finances

24/7 Internet newspaper / Headline SurferHenry Frederick, publisher / Headline SurferSerafina Frederick, multi-media editor / Headline Surfer

DAYTONA BEACH -- With the growing popularity of Headline Surfer as a free digital source of online news accessed around the clock throughout Florida and globally for that matter, the 24/7 internet newspaper is going to slowly move away from hyper-local municipal government coverage focused on greater Daytona Beach Daytona Beach and New Smyrna Beach, in particular, to news of Central Florida.

Seminole State College campuses in Sanford/Lake Mary, Oviedo, Altamonte Springs & Heathrow now tobacco free

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Seminole State College in Sanford/Lake Mary tobacco free / Headline SurferPhoto for Headline Surfer / Tobacco products -- smoking and chewing are now banned on the campuses of Seminole State College with signs like this erected as a reminder.

SANFORD -- There will be no more lighting up anywhere on the campuses of Seminole State College. The ban went into effect with the the start of fall semester classes on Monday and includes all forms of tobacco, including chewing.

The designated smoking areas at Seminole State College of Florida have come down with the new tobacco-free policy in place. The College’s District Board of Trustees voted unanimously April 15 to ban tobacco use on all campuses beginning with the start of the 2013 fall term.

486. Holly Hill woman calls in bomb threat from work resulting in evacuation; tells cops she 'needed a break'

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 Latisha Anne Vester, 33, of Daytona Beach, who was an employee of Metra Electronics in Holly Hill,  was charged March 30, 2012, with falsely reporting a bomb threat where she worked.

HOLLY HILL -- An employee of Metra Electronics told investigators she called in a bomb threat that forced the evacuation of 300 co-workers because she "needed a break."

This bizarre story comes in at No. 486 in Headline Surfer's countdown of the Top 500 stories as part of its 5th anniversary.

Videos of Traders bar bullies harassing reporter at NSB shrimp festival trending on YouTube

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Dave Fernandez, Traders bar owner / Headline SurferNSB Mayor Adam Barringer secured a $60,000 CRA grant for Traders bar / Headline SurferNEW SMYRNA BEACH -- The videos showing Traders bar owner and three of his patrons harassing Headline Surfer's coverage a week ago today of the New Smyrna Beach Shrimp & Seafood Festival are trending on YouTube.

New motto for seaside community: 'City of Oak Hill -- We make fishers of many'

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Headline Surfer photos and videos / The 24/7 internet newspaper recognizes Oak Hill's motto contest with this quick-hit video set to the 1964 smash hit "The Name Game" by Shirley Ellis. The contest puts the city that much further ahead from the divisiveness of a community rocked by a scandal that led to the demise of the police force two years years ago  under embattled Police Chief Diane Young, a former cocaine addict.
 
Matthew 4:18-20: And Jesus, walking by the sea of Galilee, saw two brethren, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers. And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men. And they straightway left their nets, and followed him.

OAK HILL -- There's a winning motto for tiny Oak Hill, Volusia County's smallest city with a mere 1,793 residents straddling the border with Brevard County, just north of Titusville, Merritt Island and the Kennedy Space Center.

Windemere fraud

FDLE arrests Central Florida woman for one count of grand theft
Investigation alleges embezzlement of nearly $30,000 from non-profit organization

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August 30, 2013

ORLANDO, Fla. – Today Florida Department of Law Enforcement Orlando Regional Operations Center agents announced the arrest of Kim McDaniel-Morgan, 47, 910 Lascala Dr. Windermere, Fla., for one count of grand theft pursuant to an arrest warrant issued on Aug. 27, 2013. She was arrested and processed at the Lake County Jail on Aug. 29, 2013, and was released on $2,500 bond.