DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Let's say you're 26 years old. Your dad is white, you mom is black. You grow up in the Deep South and you put aside other sports to pursue the life of a race-car driver. This in the age of Lewis Hamilton, the 6-time Black British Formula One World Champion.
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- It was bound to happen.
Two employees and a former inmate at the Volusia County Branch Jail have tested positive for COVID-19, marking the first coronavirus cases at the county-operated facility.
ORLANDO, Fla. -- Seminole County Tax Collector Joel Greenberg is accused of stalking one of his political opponents, according to a federal indictment unsealed Tuesday that led to his arrest and presentment in US District Court.
After peaceful protests celebrating Juneteenth, protesters on Friday night pulled down and burned the statue of Confederate Gen. Albert Pike in Washington D.C's Judiciary Square.
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- "Juneteenth" is a sacred holiday to Daytona Beach Mayor Derrick Henry.
By HENRY FREDERICK / Headline Surfer
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- The Volusia County School District is moving ahead with restrictive graduation ceremonies, despite complaints from graduating seniors and their families that limits attendance to only two tickets per graduationg senior with the coronvirus pandemic situation showing no signs of letting up any time soon.
The Florida Health Department announced a record-high 3,207 coronavirus infections Thursday that saw June’s total rise to 29,307. Florida now has has 85,926 COVID-19 cases.
YouTube download / AP video / Jimmy Kimmel to host the Emmys; Famous feline of "A Street Cat Named Bob" dies ; Stassi Schroeder announces pregnancy. (June 17)
-- Henry Frederick, Headline Surfer - Daytona Beach, Sanford, Orlando, FL
North Korea blew up an inter-Korean liaison office building just north of the heavily armed border with South Korea on Tuesday in a dramatic display of anger that sharply raises tensions on the Korean Peninsula and puts pressure on Washington and Seoul amid deadlocked nuclear diplomacy.
An Air Force sergeant already jailed in the ambush killing of a California sheriff's deputy was charged Tuesday in the shooting death of a federal security officer outside the U.S. courthouse in Oakland during a protest last month. Staff Sgt. Steven Carrillo was charged with murder and attempted murder in the killing of federal officer Dave Patrick Underwood, 53.
Highlights of this day in history for June 17: The Watergate scandal begins to unfold; The Battle of Bunker Hill during the American Revolution; O.J. Simpson arrested in the slayings of his ex-wife Nicole and Ronald Goldman; Singer Kate Smith dies.
