NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- You'd think juggling a marriage, family and career would be enough to handle for Edgewater's Kerry-Anne Purkiss, but she takes motherhood to a whole new level as a community mentor to a dozen or so other children in the greater New Smyrna Beach.
Headline Surfer photo by Serafina Frederick / Birds fly high on New Smyrna Beach, but not because of a large quantity of old pot that washed up on shore on 2010.
NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Fireworks debris wasn't the only thing littering the beach on the Fourth of July weekend three years ago.
Something else that requires a flame washed up on shore: A kilo of marijuana. The discovery comes in at No. 499 in Headline Surfer's countdown of the top 500 stories of its 5th anniversary.
DAYTONA BEACH – Nine-time GRAMMY winner Sheryl Crow, whose long list of hits include “All I Wanna Do,” “Soak Up The Sun” and her latest single “Easy,” will perform a hour-long pre-race concert prior to the 55th annual Coke Zero 400 Powered By Coca-Cola NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race on Saturday, July 6 at Daytona International Speedway.
And you won't find a bigger fan than Daytona International Speedway President Joie Chitwood.
Headline Surfer graphic / Riccilynn Rigoli, 32, and mother of three girls, shown with her husband of two years, Donald J. Rigoli, is the fatality victim in the early Monday rollover on the South Causeway Bridge. NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Below is a copy of the 4-page preliminary police report from the NSBPD on the 12:43 a.m. single-vehicle crash in the westbound lanes of South Causeway Bridge that resulted in the death of 32-year-old Riccilynn Rigoli, a Port Orange resident and mother of three, on her way home with her husband after partying at the Cinco de Mayo festival on Flagler Avenue.
NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- The husband who survived a rollover crash early Monday on the South Causeway Bridge that resulted in the violent death of his wife, told the Daytona Beach News-Journal they had been partying on Flagler Avenue's "Cinco de Mayo," an alcohol-fueled festival sponsored by the Flagler Merchants Hospitality Group and funded in part by CRA-taxpayer dollars.
Headline Surfer photo by Henry Frederick / This surfer passes by the New Smyrna Beach Boardwalk as the sun rises over the Atlantic Ocean about 6:40 a.m. Monday.
NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla -- A woman was killed and a man critically injured after they were ejected from their pick-up truck in a rollover early this morning on the South Causeway Bridge, New Smyrna Beach police said.
Headline Surfer snapshot graphic / This locator map shows the location, 444 Seabreeze Bourlevard, of a deliberate hit-and-run fatality at 3:13 a.m. Sunday.
DAYTONA BEACH -- Cops are continuing their search this early Monday morning for the driver of a small red convertible car who they say deliberately struck and killed a man over the weekend in the rear parking lot of 444 Seavreeze Boulevard.
Police were vague in a brief press release with few details as to what happened. But this is as best what Headline Surfer could surmise from the release: A small red convertible car and a black Range Rover were at the light at Seabreeze and Oleander early Sunday heading westbound when words were exchanged between the driver of the red car and two pedestrians. The driver of the red car got out and a fight broke out.
Headline Surfer file photo / New Smyrna Beach native Jim Humphrey, shown at far left, enjoys pancakes and good conversation with Rick Newell at the 2009 fundraiser for the New Smyrna Beach Museum of History.NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- The Pancakes in the Park scheduled for 7 to 11 a.m. Saturday has been re-scheduled until the following Saturday because of the rainy weather. So please mark your calendars for 7 to 11 p.m. Saturday May 11, at the Old Fort Park.
The cost is $6 and includes pancakes, sausage, coffee, and orange juice under the oaks. A Bluegrass group will provide entertainment.
