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Florida Highway Patrol: I-95 reopened near Edgewater with 3 dead from multiple crashes involving 17 vehicles due to dense fog & smoke from controlled burn

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EDGEWATER, Fla. -- Dense fog and thick black smoke from a controlled burn were major causes of a horrific series of crashes overnight Thursday on both sides of I-95 between Edgewater and New Smyrna Beach resulting in three fatalities and numerous injuries, the Florida Highway Patrol said.

Sunny skies through the weekend at the World's Most Famous Beach in Daytona

Create: Fri, 03/04/2022 - 17:15
Author: Sera King
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- It's picture-perfect weather through the weekend at the World's Most Famous Beach in Daytona with plenty of sunshine and seasonably warm temps in the high 70s. Just what the doctor ordered.

27. Daytona Beach cops: Speeding Ormond motorist killed, 5 firefighters injured in traffic crash between Pontiac & fire truck during Bike Week

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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- A 52-year-old Ormond Beach woman was killed and five City of Daytona Beach firefighters were hurt following a traffic crash between her car, a Pontiac, and a fire truck near Halifax Health Medical Center on the first Saturday of Bike Week 2021, though no motorcycles were involved.

26. Ex-Sanford Mayor Jeff Triplett, who was at the helm during the Trayvon Martin homicide, dies of lung cancer at 52

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SANFORD, Fla. -- Jeff Triplett, the former Sanford mayor who led the city through the Trayvon Martin-George Zimmerman crisis more than eight years ago, died of lung cancer on Feb. 27, 202, at the age of 52 - a shocking breaking news development considering few people even knew he had been sick.