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Photo for Headline Surfer® / Erik Estrada is shown in this snapshot a new family-friendly movie 'Finding Faith.'

DAYTONA BEACH -- Ponch from CHiPS is coming to the Greater Friendship Baptist Church, but he's leaving his motorcycle and uniform home as he tackles a new role in the family-friendly film "Finding Faith" which will be shown Dec. 9, after which, he''ll make an appearance.

Estrada, the hunky Latino, who's acting is well chronicled from the popular TV series, also is the national celebrity spokesman for the Safe Surfin' Foundation the creators of the film Finding Faith, a full-length narrative motion picture that tells the true story of how a family found 'Faith' in their battle to find and rescue their 14-year old daughter 'Faith' who accidentally falls victim to an online predator.

Ronald J. Bynum: May 7, 1959 - Dec. 2, 2013

Headline Surfer photo / Ron Bynum, an activist and watchdog of local and county government, died Monday, Dec. 2, 2013, at the age of 54. Among his pursuits was legally challenging funding for the News-Journal Center, a project that became a debacle that resulted in the newspaper being sold in  federal-court supervised sale and more than half its 800 employees losing their jobs. 

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DAYTONA BEACH -- While the country was mourning another movie star, Volusia County lost a true local hero, Ron Bynum of Daytona Beach.

Photo for Headline Surfer® / Kandas Baker remains incarcerated at the Volusia Country Branch Jail in Daytona Beach on meth lab-related drug charges.

OAK HILL -- A 43-year-old Oak Hill woman is facing drug charges after a tip to narcotics agents led to the discovery of a meth lab in her home, an official with the Volusia County Sheriff's Office said.

Agents with the East Volusia Narcotics Task Force responded Monday to Kandas Baker’s home on Bills Hill Road to investigate a complaint about drug activity.

Duplication of investigations by State Attorney, FBI

Headline Surfer® / The appointment of Jon Kaney as investigator of Waverly bus bench probe for the County Council is something term-limited Council member Pat Northey is looking forward to in hopes of weakening at-large incumbent Joyce Cusack, whose seat she covets in the 20134 elections.

DAYTONA BEACH -- The ugliness of Volusia County politics continues to fester in the Frank T. Bruno chambers in DeLand with today's expected coronation of attorney Jonathan Kaney Jr. as the hired gun to investigate the Waverly bus bench advertising scandal, something already well under way with ongoing investigations by the State Attorney's Office and the FBI. 

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla -- After Southeast Volusia Advertising Authority Chairman Palmer Wilson was removed an unprecedented second time with County Councilwoman Deb Denys imploring her colleagues to "finish this" and getting her way in a 4-3 split vote seen by some as politically-motivated, Wilson's successor, Tom Clapsaddle, ate on the public's dime.