ORLANDO -- The Orlando Magic will open the 2013 preseason at Veterans Memorial Arena in Jacksonville on Oct. 9 against New Orleans.
The Tip-off is 7 p.m. for the Wednesday game. This marks the third time that the Orlando Magic have played a preseason game in Jacksonville, with their last trip coming in 2008.
NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Does the high price of movies have you down? Watch some of the year’s most popular films at the New Smyrna Beach Regional Library. It won’t cost you a dime.
Headline Surfer graphics / The crash of a van into a neighbor's home early Wednesday was the freshest news in the Google News Directories for Orlando as shown in the snapshot graphics at left and below.ORLANDO -- Headline Surfer demonstrated once again why it truly is the 24/7 internet newspaper, picking up a bizarre motor vehicle crash early this morning under cover while the much bigger media outlets were asleep.
The brief story, headlined, "Florida Highway Patrol: Orlando man falls asleep at wheel of new Dodge Caravan; crashes into neighbor's garage," was filed just after 5 a.m. and picked by by the Google News Directories within 5 minutes where it was trending online as the freshest offering.
Photo for Headline Surfer / Preaching Christianity in Communist Cuba is the topic of a 9 a.m., Saturday, July 6 talk by native Pastor Humberto Berillo, shown here, when he visits United Church of Christ in New Smyrna Beach.NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Visiting Cuban Pastor Humberto Berillo will be the featured speaker as the United Church of Christ in New Smyrna Beach continues its Community Forum Series with an inside look at how Christianity is practiced in the communist country.
Photo for Headline Surfer / Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University President John Johnson, shown at front-center, announces partnership with Diamond Aircraft Industries that will allow for the manugfacturer to have a presence in Daytona Beach. Behind Johnson is Gov. Rick Scott.DAYTONA BEACH -- Today at the 50th Annual International Paris Air Show, Gov. Rick Scott and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University officials announced that its president, John Johnson, and Diamond Aircraft Industries' CEO and owner Christian Dries, signed a partnership agreement that will establish the global manufacturer's presence at the Daytona Beach campus.
Headline Surfer photos / The Beach Patrol's new Jeeps, though few and far between, are eye catchers as shown here south of the Flagler beach ramp in New Smyrna Beach.NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- The bright red Jeep Wrangler 4 x 4 driven by a Beach Patrol cop was like eye candy with its sleek features as it drove up and down the beach Saturday in the vicinity of the Flagler Boardwalk and beach ramp.
Gone, at least for the day, were the bigger white pick-up trucks as the sporty Jeep made its presence felt on the packed beach, one of only three such vehicles in the fleet, each at a cost of $27,100 purchased last year.
Still, this particular Jeep got the attention of beach goers.
Headline Surfer videos / Mike Catchings of Lake Mary was the lone biker in the empty lot at Pub 44 as opening night of Biketoberfest 2011 came to a sad conclusion. The local Cheapthrills Band plays a Chris Isaak '80s classic, "Wicked Game," to a handful of bikers earlier in the evening at the bar.NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Biketoberfest 2011 was quieter than a lawn mower on the first night of the four-day weekend at what was soon to be an extinct Pub 44. Just after midnight there were three Harleys in the parking lot and one bicycle.
2010's Biketoberfest recession was 2011's depression, at least through the first 24 hours at what for the last couple of decades or so has been the ground zero in Southeast Volusia for bikers, babes and booze.
Headline Surfer graphic / A topless woman interrupting traffic at the intersection of South Orange and West Euclid avenues, as shown here at left in this snapshot locator map, was taken into custody in the bizarre incident back in April 2008.DeLAND -- Motorists in the vicinity of a well-travelled certainly got an eyeful on a mid-April morning five years ago, when traffic flow was interrupted by a woman walking around topless, DeLand cops said.
Police received a number of calls about the 30-year-old woman's state of undress at the intersection South Orange and West Euclid avenues during the mid-morning hours of April 18, 2008.
Police received a number of calls about the 30-year-old woman's state of undress at the intersection South Orange and West Euclid avenues during the mid-morning hours of April 18, 2008.
Photos for Headline Surfer / NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Father's Day is bittersweet for Mark Severance, a New Smyrna Beach police officer and retired Marine.
"Father's Day (June 15,1986) our son, 'Kyle David Severance,' was born at the Naval Hospital, Marine Corps Air Station, Cherry Point, NC," the elder Severance wrote on his Facebook page.
DAYTONA BEACH. Fla. -- Dist. 26 State Rep. Dwayne Taylor, D-Daytona Beach, received the Florida Professional Firefighters 2013 "Legislator of the Year" award during the 69th annual conference for professional firefighters at the Hilton Daytona Beach Oceanfront Resort.
