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USA gymnastics based in Indianapolis

Headline Surfer photo (far left) / photo (far right) courtesy USA gymnastics / Get ready for three days of tumbling and aerial displays by American gymnasts Aug. 30-Sept. 1, at the Ocean Center.

DAYTONA BEACH -- Nearly 300 of America’s best trampoline and tumbling athletes training in Indianapolis will converge Indianapolis will converge on the Ocean Center for the 2013 Stars & Stripes Cup from Aug. 30 through Sept. 1. While here, they'll be able to get some sun and surf at the World's Most Famous Beach and perhaps take a tour of Daytona International Speedway, home of the Great American Race, the Daytona 500.

Photo for Headline Surfer / If you come across this 80-year-old Deltona man, Baltazar Maldonado, then please contact the Volusia County Sheriff's Office as he's reported missing by his family and suffers from Alzheimer's.

DELTONA The Volusia County Sheriff's Office is seeking the public's help this morning in locating a 80-year-old man who has Alzheimer's.

Baltazar Maldonado left his home in Deltona Wednesday afternoon without his cell phone.

"He was last seen at his home on Blackstone Avenue wearing a blue plaid shirt and black pants," Sheriff's spokesman Brandon Haught told Headline Surfer.

EDGEWATER, Fla. -- Local gal Tia McDonald, who has travelled quite a bit in her young modeling career, including a spot in an MTV music video shoot, was in Australia in early 2012, where she took part in the making of a book, "Fairy Tale -- Once Upon a Time, Act 1," by Somsay Toumngeun.

DAYTONA BEACH -- Gov. Rick Scott has re-appointed Robert "Bob" Davis to the Daytona State College District Board of Trustees.

Friday's Billfish Invitational tourism story remains in Top 5

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Once again, Headline Surfer showed on Sunday why it's a must-read for fresh Sunday news as demonstrated with the 24/7 internet newspaper's story on the motorcycle cop who was injured in a morning crash that was not explained by police.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Headline Surfer stands alone in showcasing SE Volusia's tourism events like the New Smyrna Beach Balloon & Sky to a 21st-century digital world. The proof is in the analytics. The quality is in the multimedia coverage.

Vehicle found abandoned in Sanford

Headline Surfer graphic / An alert cab driver used a little trickery on Sunday to escape from a gun-toting customers, but had his taxi stolen at the intersection of Volusia and Graves avenues in Orange City 8 a.m. Sunday as shown at left.

ORANGE CITY -- A taxi driver was held up at gunpoint early this morning and ordered to drive a man and woman to Orange city before he escaped at the intersection of Volusia and Graves avenues, A Volusia County Sheriff's spokesman said.

The 2002 Dodge Caravan was later recovered abandoned in Sanford and the duo remain at large.

Circumstances of accident not released by police

Headline Surfer graphic / At left is the locator site of the 7:30 a.m. Sunday crash of a New Smyrna Beach motorcycle officer, Richard Kirkland, shown below from a photo on his Facebook page. Details on the crash were not released by police.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- A New Smyrna Beach motors cop was injured when he crashed his motorcycle this morning at the intersection of North Dixie Freeway and Industrial Park Avenue, police said in a press release.

The officer, Richard Kirkland, was transported by EVAC ambulance to Halifax Health Medical Center in Daytona Beach with what was described as non-life threatening injuries. No description was given by police as to the circumstances of the 7:30 a.m. crash except that no other vehicles were involved.