DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- The July 30, 2000, running of the Formula One German Grand Prix motor race at the Hockenheimring near Hockenheim, Germany, was won by Brazilian driver Rubens Barrichello driving a Scuderia Ferrari F1-2000 in his debut.
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Phil Krueger has had several bad wrecks and as horrible as this one looked, he escaped without major injury when he lost control of his car and struck the outside retaining wall with the rear-end, which cost him a chance to race in the 1981 Indy 500.
DELAND, Fla. -- It's a new era in Volusia County governance with three newbies on the dais in the Frank T. Bruno County County Council Chambers: County Chair Ed Kelley, District 2 Councilwoman Billie Wheeler and District 4 Councilwoman Heather Post, who complement Vice Chair Joyce Cusack, District 3 Councilwoman Deb Denys, District 1 Councilman Pat Patterson and District 5 Councilman Fred Lowry.
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Headline Surfer is counting down the Top 100 stories of 2016 in the greater Daytona Beach, Sanford and Orlando metro area otherwise known as the I-4 corridor of Central Florida through Volusia, Seminole and Orange counties.
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Headline Surfer is counting down the Top 100 stories of 2016 in the greater Daytona Beach, Sanford and Orlando metro area otherwise known as the I-4 corridor of Central Florida through Volusia, Seminole and Orange counties.
Among the top 5 contenders for the No. 1 story of the year in no particular order so as not to spoil the surprise: The Pulse gay nightclub terrorist massacre; the ugliness of the presidential election between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton; the continuing saga over homelessness in Daytona Beach; records tied or broken in NASCAR races at Daytona International Speedway and Daytona Beach yet again leading Volusia County in homicides.
So far Headline Surfer has presented recaps for stories ranked 16-100. Previous segments have come in story recaps of 10, but now that the countdown has arrived at the top 20, this current segment captures stories ranked 11-15. Then it will be 10-6, 5-2 and then No. 1 by itself. So without further delay, here are story recaps 11-15:
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Right from the onset, the 1960 Daytona Modified Sportsman race at Daytona International Speedway was a disaster with the biggest collection of cars caught up in a single crash at a NASCAR-sanctioned racing event -- 37 of them. Fortunately, though, there were no casualties.
It was on this date of Jan. 7, 1999, that the impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton bergan in the US Senate in the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla -- While much of the Southeastern US saw a winter blast with upwards of 8 inches of snow and 21 inch of sleet in the last 24 hours, Florida escaped the white stuff, but not the rain. Now there's a more deadly element for Daytona Beach's homeless overnight: Bone-chilling temps near freezing.
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- During the 2011 running of the 24 hours of Le Mans, driver Allan McNish destroyed the No. 3 Audi in a spectacular crash early on, careening into a retaining wall, and though some debris from the shattered car went over, it didn't cause any injuries to nearby spectators.
DAYTONA BEACH, FLA. -- It's known as the Roar Before the 24," and it's the weekend-long tune-up at Daytona Internationational Speedway for the upcoming Rolex 24.
