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DELTONA -- The Volusia County Sheriff's Office is seeking the public's help in locating a mother and her two children who are considered missing and endangered under suspicious circumstances stemming from a domestic violence situation in Lake Mary involving her husband who has since been apprehended and jailed in Daytona Beach.

County Chair Jason Davis, shown in the far left photo on his Harley for Biketoberfest, stands in far contrast to his image on the dais in this Headline Surfer photo. Davis produced a video of the biker rally. 

DAYTONA BEACH -- First-year Volusia County Chair Jason Davis doesn't like it when people call him a politician. American Badass instead?

Headline Surfer videos by Henry Frederick / 

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- When all is said and done, Southeast Volusia Advertising Director Carl Watson understands what his No. 1 priority is as head of the tourism effort in greater New Smyrna Beach: "It's putting heads in beds."

Watsion added for emphasis, "I think aboiut putting heads in beds when I wake up in the morning and I think about putting heads in beds when I get ready to go to sleep at night."

Witnesses reported vehicle 'all over the road'

Headline Surfer graphic / At left is a snapshot of a portion of the arrest report charging off-duty VCSO deputy Stephanie LeClerc with DUI of alcohol or drugs. She failed a field sobriety test and twice refused to submit to a breathalyzer leading to her arrest.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- An off-duty deputy was arrested Saturday night on a charge of driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs after at least one motorist called 9-1-1 to report she was "all over the road" and even driving in the oncoming traffic lane. When she was pulled over, fellow deputies saw that her 7-year-old daughter was in the front passenger seat.

DAYTONA BEACH -- Bikes, babes and booze are the common denominators for Biketoberfest, the annual Fall motorcycle rally in greater Daytona Beach that draws tourists nesr and far.

DAYTONA BEACH -- Volusia County Councilman Joshua Wagner was a strong proponent of the new fiscal year budget of $701 million and was pleased to see bipartisan support for it. He tackled the tough questions in Headline Surfer's online newsmaker show, "The Sunday Conversation."

Was longest-serving member of the House until his death

Photo for Headline Surfer / Florida's longest serving Congressman, CW Bill Young, shown here at left, died Friday. He was 82.

ORLANDO -- Gov. Rick Scott issued a statement earlier tonight from Orlando regarding today's passing of Florida U.S. Congressman C.W. Bill Young, 82, and the the longest-serving Republican in the House, who had been hospitalized in recent weeks at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Washington, D.C.

“Ann and I join all Floridians as we mourn the passing of Representative Bill Young," Scott said in a statement e-mailed to Headline Surfer and other Florida media outlets.

No details released on double-track fatality by Daytona Beach PD

DAYTONA BEACH -- Two motorcyclists are confirmed dead after crashing into each other on the track during a riding school demonstration Thursday as part of Biketoberfest, an official there confirmed.

"Yes, there were two deaths,"DIS spokesman Lenny Santiago told Headline Surfer just after 3 p.m. today, adding details of the double fatality are contained in a Daytona Beach police report, which he was earlier told police were distributing to media.

Headline Surfer video by Henry Frederick / A man and woman take off on their chopped Harleys on Main Street in Daytona Beach. Check out how the woman biker handles the steering with her high-rise handlebars like a piece of cake.

DAYTONA BEACH -- More and more women are riding their own bikes at the motorcycle rallies in and around Daytona Beach.