Courtesy photo. Kyle Busch bests Carl Edwards to take the 2008 Coke Zero 400 at Daytona International Speedway.
DAYTONA BEACH -- After finishing second twice two previous times, Kyle Busch finally won the Coke Zero 400 at Daytona International Speedway, eking out Carl Edwards to victory under a checkered-caution ending in the July 5 race flag under the lights.
Courtesy photo. Craig Leron Flynt, the son of a Daytona Beach police officer, shot and killed the mother of his four children in August, pumping the final bullet into her head with a .357 Magnum as police arrived. He was later sentenced to life in prison after pleading guilty to first-degree murder.
DAYTONA BEACH -- Craig Leron Flynt, 37 and the son of a Daytona Beach police officer, stood above his fallen ex-girlfriend and mother of his four young children pumped a second bullet into her head across the street from her Maley Street residence just after midnight on Aug. 4.
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Courtesy photos. Mark Williams, news director at WNDB radio 1150 in Daytona Beach, has provided regular updates on the Caylee Anthony homicide in Orange County from the onset on the Nancy Grace show on CNN Headline News.
DAYTONA BEACH -- We've heard his voice for years as news director/reporter on WNDB radio 1150 am, but since early summer he's been a regular fixture on CNN Headline News' Nancy Grace reporting on the Caylee Anthony homicide.
DAYTONA BEACH -- A victim of a Saturday convenience store robbery near Daytona Beach got a good look at the suspects' getaway vehicle, to include the licenseplate, giving Volusia County Sheriff's deputies a valuable lead they needed to track down the suspects, Sheriff's spokesman Brandon Haught said.
Courtesy photo. Volusia County Judge Dawn Fields ruled in December that former City Commissioner and mayoral candidate Mike Shallow had a right of privacy when he was behind a closed bathroom stall in the Volusia Mall and because of that right, the accusation of lewd behavior was not found credible, and therefore, the case against him dismissed.
DAYTONA BEACH -- Former Daytona Beach City Commissioner Mike Shallow, who made two unsuccessful runs for mayor, was acquitted Dec. 16. of lewd and lascivious behavior amid accusations he was masturbating in a bathroom stall at Sears in the Volusia Mall.
ORMOND BEACH -- The Volusia County Sheriff's Office is investigating a Sunday morning armed robbery of a convenience store near Ormond Beach during which the suspect came into the store brandishing a knife and demanding money. But he was startled when the clerk lunged at him with a knife of his own and the suspect fled empty handed.
The store clerk was not injured, but it's not known if the suspect was cut by the clerk, said Brandon Haught, Sheriff's spokesman.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would no doubt have been thrilled to see the inauguration of President Barack Obama.
King was an outstanding leader whose loss was a tragedy not only for his supporters, but also for his enemies.
I'll bet some of you were thinking when you saw the passengers being pulled from the wrecked U.S. Airways jet in the Hudson River that you would probably never fly again. I have a different viewpoint.
The day before the Hudson incident, I was talking to a friend who told me that she always flies Delta, but no flights were available so she recently came from Connecticut to Charlotte, N.C., where she would change planes for the final leg to Orlando via U.S.Airways.
The Rev. Don Bremer of the First United Methodist Church of New Smyrna Beach summed up the inauguration of President-Elect Barack Obama this way Sunday: "In a free land, in a Democracy, anything is possible."
Amen to that.
How ironic is it that Obama's inauguration comes one day after the national holiday for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Forty years after an assassin's bullet cut King's life short, America celebrates the inauguration of its first African-American president. How often have we heard in our lifetimes that America is not ready for a black president? Remember in the 70s, 80s, and 90s, the refrain that it would probably happen sometime in the 21st century?
