Daytona Beach

DEBATABLE: No real consensus among Daytona Beach-Orlando-area citizens as to Clinton or Trump in the big debate

By HENRY FREDERICK
Headline Surfer

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- So who won the (not-so) great debate between Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump? 

Topix online post alleging failed political candidate & substitute teacher 'David Lee Davis is a pedophile' removed, but still shows up in google search

By HENRY FREDERICK
Headline Surfer

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Less than a day after Headline Surfer reported that an online site called Topix had a posting alleging David Lee Davis, the failed candidate in the Aug. 30 Volusia County primary and a substitute teacher, is a pedophile, the unsubstantiated allegation was taken down. However, the unsubstantiated accusation still shows up in the google search engines.

Failed political candidate & substitute teacher David Lee Davis accused of being a pedophile on Topix forum site

By HENRY FREDERICK
Headline Surfer
 
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Political consultant and substitute teacher David Lee Davis, who continues to use Facebook to lash out at those he views as the enemy with no signs of letting up weeks after he was soundly defeated for supervisor of elections in the Aug. 30 Volusia County primary, now finds himself in the unenviable position of staving off unsubstantiated allegations in an online forum that he's a pedophile who slept with a 17-year-old boy back home in Ohio.

Academian & Civic Giant in Daytona's African-American community seeking countywide political office investigated for alleged 'brutal' rape

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By HENRY FREDERICK
Headline Surfer

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Willie J. Kimmons, an academian and civic giant in Daytona Beach's African-American community and a candidate for countywide office in the November elections was investigated on allegations by a woman that he "brutally raped" back in February, but because she didn't report her claim for several days and Kimmons represented by legal counsel would not answer questions by cops investigating it, the State Attorney's Office "no info'd" the case in June.  

9/11 Twin Towers re-created at World's Most Famous Beach in Daytona

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- An anonymous sand sculpturer re-created the Manhattan skyline, complete with the Twin Towers, on the Word's Most Famous Beach in Daytona in commemoration of the 15th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. It is here where the hard wet sands, nurtured by the incoming surf, make it possible for beach driving to continue along certain stretches of the Atlantic coastline.

 

15th anniversary of 9/11: Never Forget

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By HENRY FREDERICK
Headline Surfer

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Wendell and Anita Bradford, like millions of Americans, are praying ask for prayers for all of the families, friends and first responders who suffer every day because of the 9/11 attack on our country 15 years ago today. Like millions of Americans across the country and countless people around the globe, they remember the all-too-real horror that came with with two hijacked airliners slamming into the Twin Towers of New York City's World Trade Center, a third airliner striking the Pentagon and a fourth crashing in a vacant field in Shanksville, Penn, by doomed passengers who stormed the cockpit to avert a likely strike on the White House or Capitol Building.

Orange City Mayor Tom Laputka Pushes Candidacy Of Daytona's Patrick Henry

By HENRY FREDERICK
Headline Surfer

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Orange City Mayor Tom Laputka's run for Volusia County's top elected office came to a less than stellar conclusion when the final votes were tallied in the Aug. 30 primary. Laputka finished dead last among the five candidates.

Beach Safety: 1 swimmer rescued in Daytona & dead manatee washes ashore in New Smyrna

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Beach patrol personnel had somewhat of an eventful day on Tuesday, rescuing a swimmer in the Daytona Beach surf and tending to a dead manatee that washed ashore in New Smyrna Beach.