The Sunday Conversation -- No raises for Longwood cops for 5-plus years
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COMING TODAY: Headline Surfer video / The 24/7 internet newspaper is on location in Longwood, a suburb of Orlando here in Central Florida, where the police department's cops have gone without raises for half a decade. At left is Teamsters' Bob Walker, his assistant Gary Conroy, Jr., & a Longwood officer.
LONGWOOD, Fla. -- The 42 cops of the Longwood police force have gone without a pay raise for five-plus years and the head of the local Teamsters Union says that's not acceptable. Headline Surfer® goes on location in Longwood for its online newsmaker show, "The Sunday Conversation."
Photos for Headline Surfer® / Linda Hyatt shows off her prize catch just a few weeks ago in the local woods. The hog shown in the inset is from a previous year's hunt.
At far left is a snapshot of the lead story offfered online early Saturday by the Daytona Beach News-Journal. It's got to be tough these days for the editor, Pat Rice, shown in the inset, having to come up with strong centerpiece stories with scores of reporters on the business desk to bang out the pro-chamber and ad authority PR fluff and no full-timers for Port Orange or Edgewater. That's what happens when you have to cut positions like the five this month and having a sixth employee quit. You end up with a headline like the gem next to Rice: 'Cincinnati may get Daytona tourism dollar.'
Headline Surfer® graphic / Debra Annette Smith's badly decomposing body was found in an open field off of South Leisure World Drive near Barwick Road, as shown in this locator map. The ME's Office won't have details on the 48-year-old DeBary woman's cause of death until toxicology reports come back in a few weeks.
Photo for Headline Surfer® / Judge Donald E. Scaglione, shown here at left, was elevated Friday from Hernando County judge to a judgeship in the 5th judicial circuit that covers Citrus, Hernando, Lake, Marion, and Sumter counties, with main administrative offices in Tavares. The 5th circuit is part of the 5th District Court of Appeal, which sits in Daytona Beach. 
Photos for Headline Surfer® / Another chapter in George Zimmerman's life concludes with no charges filed in domestic violence case alleged by his estranged wife, Shellie, shown here in court with him during his murder trial. Later, he's shown cuffed after his wife claimed he displayed a gun (which she later recanted), punched her dad in the nose and shattered her iPad, like the one shown here. 
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