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Overkill: 65 cops, a tank-like vehicle and 2 SWAT teams against a lonely drunken man who never pointed a weapon at anyone

DAYTONA BEACH SHORES, Fla. – Sunrise was still 10 minutes from peeking through when the ebb and flow sound of the rolling surf on the far side of A1A was interrupted by the loud shrieking screams of a man with his cell phone in his left hand and a 12-ounce can of Budweiser in the other.

Volusia's Ugly Streak: 200 Days & Counting with Sheriff Mike Chitwood's spiteful blockade of Headline Surfer & county leaders all silent

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Ed Kelley, Billie Egger Wheeler, Heather Post, Deb Denys, Joyce Cusack, Pat Patterson & Fred Lowry all have 2 things in common: 1. They are elected members of the Volusia County Council; 2. They have said nothing -- not one word publicly -- about Volusia Sheriff Mike Chitwood's spiteful exclusion of HeadlineSurfer.com from his law enforcement agency's email media alerts and banning from press conferences.

Ted Doran & other Daytona-area attorneys remember retired Circuit Judge Kim C. Hammond who died Sunday

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Ted Doran, one of Central Florida's top lawyers, said there was "no finer man in the world," than Kim C. Hammond, a retired circuit judge who passed away Sunday at age 72. 

Voting Tally on suggested names for former Port Orange police station

Port Orange Administrative/Administration 21
  Allen Green 14
  City of Port Orange Administration/Administrative 14
  Dr. John Milton Hawks 10
  Building McBuildingface 9
  Port Orange Annex 9
  James Richard Sr. 7
  City Center  6