5 years ago: Tim Tebow Drafted
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HeadlineSurfer.com video by Sera Frederick / Fla. QB Tim Tebow is picked by the Denver Broncos (1st round 2010 NFL Draft)to the delight of to young women at Pub 44 in NSB.
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52. Ex-County Chair Frank Bruno celebrates 66th birthday; pinch hits on elections panel
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Though Frank T. Bruno, Jr. stepped off the dais in November 2012 after a 20-year-run as the face of Volusia government -- the final eight as the first elected county chair -- his political legacy remains in place, considering his successor and others meet twice monthly in the council chambers re-named in his honor.
Sanford cops: 72-year-old disabled vet carjacked at gunpoint
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SANFORD, Fla. -- A 7-year-old diabled veteran a carjackd at gunpoint in the 100 block of Country Club Circle on Thursday night, Sanford cops said.
The Sanford Police Department is currently investigating an armed carjacking that occurred on the 100 block of Country Club Circle on August 13, 2015 at approximately 8:00 p.m. The victim in this crime is a 72 year-old disabled veteran.
Port Orange cops: Woman's body floating in Halifax River near Peninsula Drive
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Headline Surfer® graphic / A woman's body found floating in the Halifax River in the vicinity of the Seven Seas Marina in Port Orange as shown in this locator map is being treated as an active homicide investigation. The woman's' ID is known to Port Orange cops, who are withholding her identity until her immediate family members are contacted.
PORT ORANGE, Fla. -- The body of a woman was found floating in the Halifax River early Wednesday near the Seven Seas Marina at 3300 S. Peninsula Drive, police said.
Here's a synopsis of what cops came across as described in an email to HeadlineSurfer.com from Port Orange Police Lt. Scott Brozio: "Responding officers found an unidentified female floating in the vicinity of the marina. Port Orange Detectives responded to the scene and the Volusia County Medical Examiner’s Office was contacted to remove the deceased."
VCSO: Suspect sought in Edgewater credit card fraud case
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Photo for Headline Surfer® / This surveillance image shows a man using someone else's credit card without their permission at two stores in Edgewater. If you know this man with the red shirt, please contact the Volusia County Sheriff's Office at the numbers posted below.
EDGEWATER, Fla. -- Volusia County Sheriff's investigators are seeking the public's help in identifying a suspect who fraudulently used a woman's credit card information to make purchases at two stores in Edgewater, an agency spokesman said.
"The suspect pictured used the victim's information (last) Thursday at Publix and Dollar General stores on Ridgewood Avenue in Edgewater," Sheriff's spokesman Andrew Gant told HeadlineSurfer.com, in supplying a still surveillance photo with information on the case.
Gov. Rick Scott appoints William R. Giffing, Jr. to Early Learning Coalition of Lake County
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Photo for Headline Surfer® / William R. Giffing, associate vice president of Wells Fargo, 127 N. Bay St., Eustis, has been tabbed by Florida's governor to serve on a Lake County public service agency.
EUSTIS, Fla. -- Gov. Rick Scott has appointed William R. Giffing, Jr. to the Early Learning Coalition of Lake County.
Giffing, 39, of Eustis, a financial advisor with Wells Fargo Advisors, succeeds Jeanie Rowin on the Early Coalition.
NSB angler Adam Barringer can't buy GOP talent to help in congressional run against Sandy Adams
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NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. -- Perception is the reality former New Smyrna Beach Mayor Adam Barringer is counting on if he's to have any chance in his quest for Congress against frontrunner and GOP rival Sandy Adams.
Barringer let it be known through an intermediary in trying to woo a prominent Republican party insider from Volusia County to join his campaign that he had amassed $125,000 as a sign that he was serious and with this insider's help he could prevail.
DIS President Joie Chitwood evasive in press conference after Coke Zero 400 catch fence disaster at Daytona
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Joie Chitwood, III, president of Daytona International Speedway, was evasive in answering questions during a press conference early Monday after the last-lap crash that sent Austin Dillon's No. 3 Chevrolet airborne and into the catch fence at the end of the Coke Zero 400, tearing a section out in the process with debris causing minor injuries to 13 fans in the grandstands before the car tumbled back onto the track upside down.
BREAKING NEWS: Several fans injured when debris from race car rips through catch fence at finish of Coke Zero 400 at Daytona
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Who needed fireworks any way when thy were enough sparks and some flames to boot at the finish of the Coke Zero 400 just after Dale Earnhardt Jr., the checkered flag: A race car ripped down a section of fencing that sprayed debris into the stands injuring several fans in the process at Daytona International Speedway early this Monday morning.
William 'Bill' Koleszar II of New Smyrna Beach, FL: March 5, 1944 - July 3, 2015
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NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. -- Bill Koleszar did what few have been able to do: He fought (New Smyrna Beach, FL) City Hall on a September night in 2009, and he won!
William L. (Bill) Koleszar II , a resident of New Smyrna Beach and former Orlando police chief for a couple of years in the early 1980s, passed away on Friday, July 3, 2015, after a lengthy battle with heart disease.
Born in Fairfield, Conn., Mr. Koleszar's candle burned brightly for 71 years across six continents.
From 1975 to 1982, he served as chief of police in Montpelier, Vt, and Arvada, Colo.; and as chief of police in Orlando, Fla, 198-1984. He also served on the cabinet of Colorado Gov. Richard D. Lamm as that state's first director of public safety, from 1984 to 1987.