Today in history for Dec. 29: Noblemen in Russia kill Gregory Rasputin; Wounded Knee massacre takes place; Texas joins as the 28th state; Dissident playwright Vaclav Havel elected president of Czechoslovakia; First YMCA opens in Boston.
Coronavirus testing sites across the U.S. are overwhelmed amid a recent surge in COVID-19 cases propelled by the Omicron variant.
Sen. Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat, was widely acknowledged as one of the toughest dealmakers in Congress. He died Tuesday at the age of 82.
ORLANDO, Fla. – Two conspirators of a drug-dealing operation in Daytona Beach that distributed cocaine, fentanyl, and heroin for at least eight months until they got busted were shipped off to prison back in June.
The closing of Little Drug on Canal Street in New Smyrna Beach today is hitting old-timers and people born here very hard, says Darlene Vann in her newest Musings blog installment.
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla -- There was a hush-hush rumor swirling within Volusia County Republican leadership back in September that GOP blogger turned-child sex predator David Lee Davis of Daytona died in prison.
ORLANDO, Fla. -- Byron Brooks, administrator of the Orange County government was paid $261,920 in 2020. Among the Top 100 highest salaries paid in Orange County, the lowest was $110,135. So what gives? Headline Surfer will tackle the issue of public sector salaries in early 2022 in a series of investigative reports segments.
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Craig Flagler Palms Funeral Home, Memorial Gardens & Crematory’s area manager Sal Passalaqua, Jr. has received the 2021 Outstanding Philanthropist award from the Association of Nonprofit Professionals.
Highlights of this day in history for Dec. 28: Pres. Woodrow Wilson is born; John C. Calhoun becomes first US vice president to resign; Alexander Solzhenitsyn 'Gulag Archipelago' is published; Actor Denzel Washington & comic book creator Stan Lee are born.
President Joe Biden on Monday pledged the full support of the federal government to states facing surges in COVID-19 cases from the more transmissible omicron variant and a run on-at-home tests.
