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NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- When I was a reporter for the Journal News, a large metro daily in West Nyack, NY, one of my first reporting beats until I was freed to cover police and courts, my true love, was covering the sprawling town of Haverstraw, which was run by Sup

OAK HILL, Fla. -- There is no greater symbols of family and friends than the laughter of children at play under the rays of the Florida sun, grandparents and such sitting in folding chairs in the comfort of the shade provided by stately trees and the parents of young ones alternating between fishing out some change for cotton candy and checking their electronic gizmos for messages or news alerts.

Homicides continue unabated: 5 slain by gunfire, 1 run over & another beaten to death

Headline Surfer snapshot locator map / Shots were fieed just before 5:48 a.m. Sunday in a room at the Sunshine Inn, 12 34 S. Ridgewood, where police found a man dead in room 108.

DAYTONA BEACH -- Gunshot blasts woke up guests inside the Sunshine Inn, a rundown motel on South Ridgewood and when cops got there, they found a black man in his early 40s dead in a pool of blood inside one of the rooms. Police received at least one 9-1-1 at 5:48 a.m. about shots being fired, but very little other than the frightened caller saying he heard the gunfire.

Photo for Headline Surfer / At left is a still snapshot from surveillance video of one of two men who fled Kohl's, 1682 Taylor Road in Port Orange, after sticking a handgun in the store manager's face.

PORT ORANGE -- The cops have issued a BOLO (be on the lookout) for two men who robbed the Kohl’s Department Store while armed with a handgun Saturday night.

Editor's Note: Here is the weekly message from Congressman Ron DeSantis, the Republican from St. Augustine, representing the 6th district that includes greater Daytona Beach...

Washington DC -- This week, it was revealed that the IRS had inappropriately targeted conservative groups for extra scrutiny, the Department of Justice had seized phone records of the Associated Press, and that the administration is apparently unaware of the actions their own agencies are taking.