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Roberts Rules

ORMOND BEACH, Fla. -- One of the things that struck Father James Harris, a runner in the fateful Boston Marathon, was how the large crowd reacted to the two explosions at the finish line.

Orange City woman apprehended in North Carolina

Iredell County, N.C., Sheriff's Office mug shot / The long arm of the law caufght up with Steffani Lariscy, 37, arrested in North Carolina after Volusia County Sheriff's deputies accusaed her in a warrant arrest with stealing nearly $170,000 from her employer and using some of the stolen cash for breast implants. 

ORMOND BEACH -- A former accountant who bragged of spending $7,000 of the thousands of dollars she alledgedly pilfered from her employer while working as an accountant, has been arrested on theft charges after being taken into custody in North Carolina, a Volusia County Sheriff's official said.

ORMOND BEACH -- Just 4% of Americans indicate they are worried about gun control, and the intense media campaign and Obama’s failure to inflict background checks on ordinary American citizens peacefully exercising their 2nd Amendment rights is a massive fail.

DAYTONA BEACH -- The Daytona 500 is just one race. I will say that growing up in DeLand, I was not that interested in the races. I only went to one race and it was not one of the big ones and I had no clue who the drivers were and I still do not know. But I do know how important Daytona International Speedway and the Daytona 500, the Coke Zero 400 and the other races are to the economy of Daytona Beach, Volusia County, Central Florida and Florida as a whole.

By Robert Littleton

ORMOND BEACH -- Earlier this month, 16 Republican senators sided with the Democrats to end U.S. Senators Paul, Lee and Cruz’ filibuster of a gun control bill. According to the rules, 60 votes are needed for cloture. They got 68.

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Dear Friend – Last week, you helped me reach over 1,000 Facebook likes, which was a wonderful way to celebrate my first 100 days in Congress! Thank you to everyone who has connected with on Facebook and on Twitter at @RepDeSantis - hearing from you is the most important part of my job.

It is a privilege and an honor to represent Florida's sixth district in Congress! When I announced last week that I had co-sponsored legislation mandating that the new drone medal not be given a higher precedence than the Purple Heart, I also stated that it was my hope that Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel would simply handle it himself at the Department of Defense level.

I am pleased to report that Secretary Hagel has discontinued the drone medal entirely.

By Stan Escudero

DAYTONA BEACH -- The Boston Bombers, brothers Tamerlan and Djokhar Tsaraev, lived up to their violent Chechen heritage, even though neither was raised in Chechnya. Having spent their childhoods in Kyrghistan and the United States, it is not clear if either had ever even been to Chechnya. Yet they proved themselves as gratuitously violent as any of their kinsmen.