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TAMPA, Fla. – Gov. Rick Scott today announced that HealthPlan ServicesSM, the nation’s leading technology, sales, retention and administrative services provider for the insurance and managed care markets, will expand its offices in Tampa to include a new state-of-the-art 95,689-square-foot facility.

The project will create more than 1,000 jobs and result in a $34.4 million capital investment in Hillsborough County.

Funeral bank fund set up for victim's family

Headline Surfer graphic / The intersection of Corbin Park Road and Paige Avenue in greater New Smytrna Beach is where where 11-year-old Mark Moore, a figth-grader at Reed-Patrtillo Elementary School, was struck by a motorist six days ago, leading to his death Wednesday afternoon.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- An 11-year-old New Smyrna Beach boy hit by a car at the intersection of Paige Avenue and Corbin Park Road while riding his bicycle six days ago, died earlier today, a spokesman confirmed at Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children in Orlando.

Mark Moore, a fifth-grader at Read-Pattillo Elementary School, was pronounced dead at 2:35 p.m. at the Orlando hospital, surrounded by family.

Winner gets to be 'Firefighter for a Day'

The deadline for the Lake Mary Fire Department Safety Poster contest is Tuesday, Oct. 8.

LAKE MARY -- Hey parents? Is your child Lake Mary's next fire safety hero? Have your little one show the Lake Mary Fire Department how much you know about fire safety and prevention in its 12th annual poster contest. Prizes will be awarded to the top heroes at our Open House on Saturday, Oct. 26.

A grand prize winner will be announced during the ceremony and will win the chance to be “Firefighter for a Day."

Buddy Dyer's salary would jump from $160,892 to $195,500

Photo for Headline Surfer / Mayor Buddy Davenport is in line to receive a $34,608 raise in the new fiscal year, which begins Oct. 1 as reported first by the Orlansdo Sentinel. Here is a link to the Sentinel's story http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2013-09-17/news/os-orlando-mayor-council-raises-20130917_1_commissioners-orlando-mayor-buddy-dyer-pay-increase. And here is Headline Surfer's story: 

ORLANDO -- Mayor Buddy Dyer and his elected colleagues on the City Council are planning to give themselves whopping 21 percent pay raises.

Dyer's salary would jump from $160,892 a year would climb to $195,500. That's a one-year increase in pay of $34,608. And Orlando City Council members would see their salaries rise from $49,393 to $60,000. That is is a one-year increase of $10,607 for each of them.

Photos for Headline Surfer / Conservative Republican Jim Oddie of Wilbur-by-the-Sea, poses with Wisconsin Congressman and Romney VP Paul Ryan.

THE VILLAGES -- Volusia County conservative Republican stalwart Jim Oddie let Paul Ryan know during his campaign stop in The Villages in August 2012 that Floridians support the R & R ticket.

That's Romney and Ryan, of course.

The Wilbur-by-the-Sea resident not only interacted with Ryan Saturday, but with Mitt Romney himself, along with Gov. Scott, on Monday in St. Augustine.

Oddie's interaction with the GOP big wigs comes in at No. 484 in Headline Surfer's Top 500 countdown of the biggest stories in Volusia County as part of Headline Surfer's 5th anniversary.

DELAND, Fla. -- The Tallahassee lawyer representing the legal interests of Trayvon Martin's parents in the George Zimmerman murder case that resulted in the Sanford gunman's acquittal, is now representing relatives of a black neighborhood barber they feel was deliberately run over and killed by a white DeLand cop who has since been fired.

DELAND, FL -- Marlon Brown was run over and killed May 8, 2013, by a DeLand cop,