Photo at left by Rusty Jarrett/Getty Images for NASCAR.

At left, Dale Earnhardt Jr. makes a pit stop as the No. 3 Wrangler Chevrolet crew services the NASCAR Nationwide Series new car Friday at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach.

Photo at right by Sam Greenwood/Getty Images.

Before the Subway Jalapeno 250 Powered by Coca-Cola NASCAR Nationwide Series new car race, Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Richard Childress get ready to roll out the No. 3 Wrangler Chevrolet, bringing back memories of Dale Earnhardt Friday in Daytona Beach.

DAYTONA BEACH -- Dale Earnhardt Jr. drove the No. 3 Wrangler Chevrolet to Gatorade Victory Lane in an exciting and emotional win in Friday night's Subway Jalapeno 250 Powered By Coca-Cola at historic Daytona International Speedway.It was the same No. 3 his father raced with.

In a green-white-checkered finish, Earnhardt, who was running the legendary blue and yellow paint scheme in honor of his father's recent induction into the NASCAR Hall of Fame, was able to hold off a hard-charging Joey Logano.

By Mark Williams for NSBNEWS.net

DAYTONA BEACH -- Headed out for the Fourth of July holiday weekend? Good news for you if you drive. Gas prices across Central Florida have stabilized.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- The city economic development crisis is far more severe than even NSBNEWS.net reported in breaking the story online Wednesday: Not only were planning documents dating back five years not sent to the state for compliance purposes, the final applications were never even created in the first place.

NSBNEWS.net videos by Sera Frederick.

Bert Fish Medical Center officials as expectedconsummated a deal Wednesday to allow Florida Hospital to take over administrative functions. Meanwhile, The New Smyrna Beach City Commission last Tuesday allowed Bert Fish to absolve itself from the Community Redevelopment Agency, which leaves a gaping hole of 26 percent less in revenues the CRA can now count on before it sunsets in 2015. Our first video looks at the debate over hospital funding with the highlights of the City Commission voted in our second video.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- A lease agreement signed early Wednesday means Bert Fish Medical Center is now under the management of Florida Hospital. Florida Hospital, under the umbrella of the Adventist Health System, will take over management of the 112-bed hospital off the South Causeway, with an option to buy the hospital outright in five years.

NSBNEWS.net photo by Henry Frederick.

David Swentor, at right, the developer of the proposed Hampton Inn & Suites on Flagler Avenue, shown here with local attorney Glenn Storch earlier this month, was pleased to finally have the city sign off on the project, or so he thought.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- South Carolina-based developer David Swentor was floored when he learned Tuesday that his proposed $15 million Hampton Inn & Suites for Flagler Avenue could be jeopardized because city staff failed to follow through with zoning and land-use amendments.

"This is insane," Swentor told NSBNEWS.net when reached by phone late Tuesday night.

NSBNEWS.net file photo.

Mayor Adam Barringer, shown in this photo in the weeks leading up to his successful election in November with economic development as his cornerstone, faces a major crisis with at least two multi-million dollar projects now in jeopardy because of a breakdown in planning management and oversight.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Just hours before Mayor Adam Barringer met with his newly formed economic advisory board Tuesday night, he was facing the biggest crisis of his seven months in office, and perhaps in modern times for this seaside community: Screw-ups in planning oversight at City Hall that have put the proposed Hampton Inn on Flagler Avenue and the Super Walmart near I-95 in peril.

"It's as bad as it can get," Barringer said tersely in a brief interview. "We stand the potential to lose the hotel. We've identified some administrative issues back through this entire process and I'm working with the city manager to resolve them."

NSBNEWS.net photo by Henry Frederick.

Mayor Adam Barringer, second from right is joined, from left to right, by Jill Carlton, Jack Holcomb, and Paul Mayer, at Tuesday's inaugural meeting of the Economic Development Advisory Board. Not pictured are fellow board members Randy McHenry, Dr. Arlen Stauffer and Bill Hall.

Monday Night Raw was nothing to write home about, which is why this report is short and sweet: The real excitement was the wrestling of Randy Orton.

The Viper was on his game in the main event match, a double tag team, with R. Truth, Evan Bourne, and Jon Morrison teaming up with Orton with the bad guys consisting of Ted Dibiase Jr., Chris Jericho, the Miz and Edge.

Feb. 3, 1929 - June 23, 2010

Memorial service for Milford "Dink" Dinker, Jr. age 81,New Smyrna Beach, who died Wednesday, June 23 at Bert Fish Medical Center. will be 11:00 a.m. Monday, June 28 at Trinity Lutheran Church, 485 Turnbull Bay Road, New Smyrna Beach, with the Reverend Don Reiter, officiating.

Editor's Note: The following was submitted by Thomas S. Brown, a former Daytona Beach News-Journal employee who has sought federal court intervention to stop liquidation of newspaper retiree benefits there. NSBNEWS.net Publisher/Wed Editor Henry Frederick, has a vested interest in the pension as a former employee there.