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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- A crash that brought out the safety car in the final race of the 1997 Formula 3 racing season in Fuji, Japan, where a young driver moving up fast from the back, Takashi Yokoyama, had failed to slow down in time, hitting a car in front of him and launching his own racing machine into the air before it tore through a signboard killing him instantly.

REALITY CHECK: Sheriff Chitwood in SR 44 Gun Battle

YouTube download / AP video / Highlights of this day in history for June 2: 1997: A federal jury finds Timothy McVeigh guilty in the Oklahoma City bombing resulting in 168 deaths. He's executred four years later; 1953: Coronation day for Britain's Queen Elizabeth II; 1979: Pope John Paul II visits his native Poland; 1941: Baseball's Lou Gehrig dies of the dreaded disease that bears hids name at age 37. 
 

YouTube download / AP video / 12 people were killed in a shooting Friday at a Virginia Beach municipal building, including the gunman. On Saturday, city officials named them, and showed their photos.

YouTube download / AP video / Bernie Sanders and Kamala Harris dueled Friday over Hispanic votes in California, a central front in the nation's immigration battle where Latinos represent the state's largest ethnic group.

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Never in his worst nightmare did Sanford Mayor Jeff Triplett ever dream he'd make national headlines of his own 3 1/2 years after a jury in Seminole County acquitted George Zimmerman of second-degree murder in the 2012 shooting death of unarmed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin.

PORT ORANGE, Fla -- Marilyn Ford should be given the nod by the voters today in the runoff special election to succeed her late husband, Robert Ford, for the district 1 seat he held on the Port Orange City Council.