Local News Now

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Who could forget Michael Waltrip's first win in NASCAR cup compeitition, in the 2001 Daytona 500, of all races.

DELAND, Fla. -- Lisa Lewis ends the month of January with training as she was among a dozen new supervisors of elections statewide to take part in a symposium and orientation in Orlando.

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Running second with a few laps left on June 12, 2013, Jason Leffler was involved in a crash during a sprint car heat race at Bridgeport Speedway in  Logan Township, NJ.

DELAND, Fla. -- She had been mercilessly attacked by one of her opponents throughout the 2015 election cycle by one of her opponents, but Lisa Lewis never reacted to the mud slinging and she won the post outright in the Aug. 30 primary.

PORT ORANGE, Fla. -- A 68-year-old man is in police custody at this hour after cops responded to his Shahab Lane home where they found his grown stepson dead from an apparent gunshot wound,Port Orange cops said.

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- A tornado watch is in effect for the I-4 corridor -- from Daytona to Sanford and Orlando, according  to the National Weather Center in Melbourne.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. -- The New Smyrna Beach Fire Department responded for a residential structure fire located at 404 Rush St. at 1:35 a.m. with visible flames and smoke from one side of the house.

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Henry Frederick, an experienced internet-based journslist in Central Florida who publishes Headline Surfer, has won journalism awards for literally dozens of stories since the mid-1990s, both with print media and online.