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NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. -- Sandy Adams, the former one-term Republican Congresswoman vying for a return to Washington has suspended her campaign, citing an undisclosed "serious health issue health that demands  (her) focus and attention."

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DELTONA, Fla. -- Two Deltona teens were killed 10 days ago ago in a single-vehicle accident while a third occupant in his early 20s survived, despite being thrown from the vehicle which overturned and came to rest against a tree in the median in the middle of the night.

HOMESTEAD, Fla. -- Kyle Busch won the 2015 Sprint Cup Championship on Sunday at Miami-Homestead in spite of the severe leg injuries at Daytona International Speedway in the XFinity race that caused him to miss the next day's Daytona 500.

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NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. -- A 24-year-old Ohio man saw two under-age teen girls coming out of the women's public bathrooms at the Flagler Avenue Beach ramp and brazenly unbuttoned and then unzipped his shorts, pulled out his penis and began masturbating, over the weekend, according to an arrest report from the Volusia County Office of Beach Safety.

The object of his desire? Two teen gals -- ages 14 and 16 -- who got an eyeful -- as he walked by and started zipping up again. But there were another set of eyes on him: A Beach Safety cop who was in his vehicle in the parking lot adjacent to the beach ramp.

YouTube downloads by Headline Surfer® / Videos by AP / Raw footage of aftermath of terrorirst attacks Friday in Paris at six venues that left more than 120 people dead people dead and at least eight suspected terrorists killed. 

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Geraldine Morgan Clinton used a Facebook app to place her profile photo with a flag of France in the background as a show of "support for the people of Paris" in the wake of Friday's terrorist attacks with ISIS claiming responsibility for six coordinated bombings or gunfire that led to bloodshed. "That was a cold calculated & merciless plan of attack," Clinton, an Oak Hill-area cattle rancher told Headline Surfer®."

BUNNELL, Fla. -- Michael Gerard Stavris II, a sergeant with the Bunnell police force who stands 6 foot 3 and weighs in excess of 400 pounds, was arrested on child solicitation charges March 25, 2014, allegedly passing himself of as a provacative under-age teen gal on Facebook to try and hook up with teen boys.

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement charged the 30-year-old Palm Coast resident with two counts of computer pornography and child exploitation and one count of criminal use of personal identification information.

Acting on a tip, in December of 2013,  FDLE agents began investigating allegations in December 2013, and soon thereafter gathered evidence they claim showed Stavris created a fraudulent Facebook account posing as a teenage girl.