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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- At 63, and having spent much of his adult life helping his wife, Stacie, raised their five children while holding down a variety of demanding jobs over the years, Michael Cantu, a true conservative Republican with strong Judeo-Christian values, and a BA in Political Science from the University of Central Florida, feels the time is right for him to give back to his community by representing local interests in Tallahassee.

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- With the distinct possibility Hillary Clinton skates by with the private email server scandal, based on the way the FBI is mishandling the investigation (being shown up by Wikileaks with thousands of emails published), now is not the time to punish failed presidential candidate Marco Rubio or Ron DeSantis from making the 11th-hour decisions to seek a return to the seats they have held in Washington in the US Senate and the House, respectively.

SANFORD, Fla. -- Hillary Clinton is speaking to a large overflow partisan crowd inside the Sanford Civic Center here in downtown Sanford saying she would defeat ISIS, mentioning the Pulse massacre in nearby Orlando and that she was a US Senator during the 9/11 that toppled the World Trade Center towers.

Then she quickly turned to gun violence, norting Trayvon Martin was gunned down in Sanford. It is Sanford where the Black Lives Matter movement was borne as a result, but she avoided any mention of it.

The Statue of Liberty is dedicated in New York; Benito Mussolini takes control of the Italian government; The Cuban Missile Crisis ends; Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and actress Julia Roberts are born (Oct. 28).

SANFORD, Fla. -- Headline Surfer, the award-winning 24/7 internet news outlet serving the greater Daytona Beach-Orlando metro area based in Sanford, proudly endorses Donald J. Trump for President of the United States and urges voters here in Central Florida and those across the US to vote for the Republican nominee on Nov. 8. 

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Passenger traffic at Daytona Beach International Airport  increased 22.8 percent for September in comparison with September last year.

During the month, 53,691 passengers flew in or out of the county-operated airport, compared to 43,728 passengers last September.

AT&T and Time Warner are playing up how their $85.4 billion merger will lead to innovative new experiences for customers. But analysts, public-interest groups and some politicians like Donald Trump are far from convinced (Oct. 24).

Kathleen G. Kane, 50, The first woman elected Pennsylvania's top prosecutor has been sentenced to 10 to 23 months in jail for illegally disclosing details from a grand jury investigation to embarrass a rival and then lying about it under oath (Oct. 24).