Edgewater -- Riley Wood was decked out with a homemade Independence Day hat as he arrived wih his parents for the Fourth of July fireworks. Asked if he made the hat," the 6-year-old New Smyrna Beach boy answered, "Yeah, with mommy."
PORT ORANGE -- 236 years ago, our nation adopted the Declaration of Independence, thereby securing the many rights and freedoms that Americans through the generations have always enjoyed. We celebrate independence in recognition of the brave founders of our great Republic, who risked their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor in the pursuit of liberty.
Headline Surfer videos by Sera Frederick / All 392 graduating seniors, whose names were called to the stage to receive their diplomas are included in the 24/7 Internet newspaper's exclusive multimedia coverage of the NSBHS Class of 2012. More videos inside.NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Principal Jim Tager and his devoted staff of teachers and counselors got together for one last hurrah with the seniors of the Class of 2012 before unleashing them onto a world unto their own to begin life's journey as young adults.
NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Every American has seen the film classic "Animal House" depicting life in a college fraternity.
The fraternity brothers were depicted as being totally without any redeeming qualities. They were totally lazy, irresponsible, undisciplined, destructive and any academic achievement was accidental and discouraged by the fraternity.
Nobody took the movie too seriously. However there has always been the lingering fear that there is a little bit of animal house in all fraternities. Over the years a few mishaps occurred which gave fraternities a bad name at MIT.
NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- I felt very sad producing a tribute video in honor of Peter Mallory, who died Friday.
NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- I met Peter Mallory and his wife Jackie in 2003, when my husband and I moved to the same street in New Smyrna Beach, but I didn’t know them until I joined the Republican Club of Southeast Volusia County.
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Photo from Daytona Beach city website / Daytona Beach's eight-year city manager is not leaving the World's Most Famous Beach, at least not for Sarasota, where he was among the top 3 vying for the same post there.
DAYTONA BEACH -- Jim Chisholm, Daytona Beach's city manager since 2004, may have made the final round of three for the same post in Sarasota, but after he failed to garner more than one vote Monday by that commission, he was no longer in the running.
Sarasota officials are now looking to re-start their search process, seemingly uninpressed with the final big 3. Neither Chisholm nor the other two finalsts wowed the city commission there. The Sarasota Herald Tribune led off its online story after Monday's meeting making it clear officials there were far from wowed: "The City of Sarasota is desperate. But not that desperate."
The Sarasota newspaper quoted City Commissioner Shannon Snyder as saying of the choices, "I'm not voting for any of them."
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Headline Surfer photos by Sera Frederick and Henry Frederick / Here are video highlights from the 2011 Fourth of July fireworks show in Edgewater. More videos inside.
EDGEWATER -- For the fifth year in a row, Headline Surfer, will bring you the spectacular Fourth of July fireworks show from George R. Kennedy Park, which is expected to draw more than 20,000-plus proud Americans, city officials said. The fireworks will get under way at dusk and the 24/7 Internet newspaper will be there to capture all of the festivities, culminating in the night sky explosions.
The green arrow in the graphic shows where a 28-year-old motorist lost his life overnight Saturday in a horrific crash, the first of two fatal accidents resulting in three deaths in Seminole County.APOPKA -- A 28-year-old Fern Park man was killed overnight Saturday on Bear Lake Road in nearby Seminole County when his Ford Escape left the road and struck a number of objects before overturning, the Florida Highway Patrol said.
Henry Coleman Jr., was southbound on Bear Lake Road at Bear Lake Circle when he "drifted onto the west shoulder of the roadway, struck a signpost, a fire hydrant, a rock wall, two mailboxes and a tree before overturning," FHP spokeswoman Sgt. KJim Montes said of the 3 a.m. fatality.
The driver was not wearing his seatbelt and was pronounced dead at the scene. This crash remains under investigation, she said, including whether he had been drinking.
A head-on crash early Sunday claimed the lives of two women in a Ford Mustang in Seminole County as shown in this graphic.WINTER PARK -- Two people in a Mustang were killed early this morning in a head-on collision on Dodd Road near Kinsley the driver crossed over a raised median and directly into the path of another car before flipping over, the Florida Highway Patrol said.
For yet unknown reasons, the 2008 Ford Mustang, driven by 48-year-old Christine Matthews of San Antonio, Texas, "failed to negotiate a curve" in the road while heading north and slammed head-on into a 2004 4-door Volvo driven by Kimberly Pisarski, who was southbound on Dodd. The collision caused the Mustang to overturn, FHP spokesman Sgt. Kim Montes said.
