MAITLAND, Fla. -- After 25 years and 11 months of service to the City of Maitland, Troy Smith is turning in his flashlight and other tools with his retirement imminent: His official last day as the city’s building inspector is on Aug. 11.
OVIEDO, Fla. -- The next Farmer’s Market is Saturday, Aug. 5, at the Lawton House grounds, 200 W. Broadway St.
CASSELBERRY, Fla. -- City residents now have the option of utility E-billing.
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – Bruce Page, president and chief executive officer of Intracoastal Bank, announces changes to the bank’s senior management team.
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- The First Amendment of the US Constitution means little in reality when a small media outlet like ours does not have the money or political clout to secure pro bono services of a lawyer to file a lawsuit to fight the abuses of an elected politician, especially one with a gun, a badge and the verbal vitriol of Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood, who has held the offce since Jan. 1.
In in that span of 215 days, Chitwood's draconian policies of singling out Headline Surfer® for exclusion: Immediate removed from the law enforcement agency's email media alerts on breaking news and updates, an outright ban on attending agency press conferences and the media outlet's two staffers names crossed off the agency's list for working press credentials.
With Chitwood's edicts that carry a threat of arrest and jailing, Headline Surfer's movements are severely restricted, its ability to report the news on a level playing field have been non-existent and its overall mission of news reporting and generating advertising revenue compromised.
YouTube download / AP video / Brady Kilpatrick, one of 12 prison escapees who used peanut butter to trick an inexperienced guard and flee an Alabama jail, appeared in court Wednesday in Stuart, Florida, where a judge ordered him held without bail pending his return to Alabama. (Aug. 3)
YouTube download / AP video / Lured by social media posts from people living in the Islamic State group’s self-declared capital, more than two dozen family members migrated to Syria. It didn’t take long before their dream was crushed. (Aug. 3)
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Four years ago, Frank Bruno, Joie Alexander and Carl Persis stepped off the county council dais, having done the people's work.
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood's vitriolic vulgarity dominates the law enforcemnt agency's social media pages on Facebook where there is little or no separation between postings presenting wanted individuals or those apprehended and charged with crimes identified as "scumbags" by the elected politician's civilian PIOs right next to or above and below other postings where the emphasis is on the good works of deputies and volunteers centerd around children's programs and community service announcements.
