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As brutal as President Obama's presidency has been Republicans can't seem to capitalize
ESSEX, Vt.— We could inquire as to what Barack Obama’s presidency communicates in these years of brutal disappointment, and waning American entheos.
Feds: Port Orange man indicted in scheme to defraud oil spill compensation fund
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ORLANDO, Fla. – A federal grand jury has handed up an indictment charging 54-year-old Robert Lee Craddock of Port Orange with wire fraud arising out of a scheme to defraud the compensation fund established as a result of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010.
If convicted, Craddock, who also may have a residence in Daytona Beach Shores, faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison. The indictment also notifies Craddock that the Office of US Attorney A Lee Bentley, III, is seeking a money judgment in the amount of $135,153, the proceeds of the charged criminal conduct.
According to the indictment, following the April 2010 explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, which was being leased by BP, formerly known as British Petroleum, Craddock submitted a claim to BP and the Gulf Coast Claims Facility, an independent facility established by BP to compensate qualified claimants, for lost earnings purportedly related to the impact of the oil spill on his businesses.
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OAK HILL -- The Oak Hill cemetry clean-up Day is March 21
Kurt Busch: 'All I've got to do is go out there and do my job," at least that's what he says in the NASCAR PR video
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla -- NASCAR has put out a nw video featuring the re-instated Kurt Busch with the message: I just have to go out there and do my job."
What's the point? Why does he have to say it? Is it to convince himself? Convince NASCAR fans? Convince his team? Convince NASCAR? Or is this NASCAR PR? Or perhaps some combination of all of the above?
The age-old adage is yiu keep your mouth shut and you let your driving do your talking for you? He says the team has provided him with the cars. That his name is atop the door. So what?
Hasn't he always been among NASCAR's top-tier talents? He has a Sprint Cup championship to his credit. Dale Earnhrdt, Jr., is trying to garner his first campioship, though Junior has two Daytona 500 championships under his bert while Busch has none.
Busch maintains he was innocent of any wrongdoing that led to his championship. And that was re-empgasized by the [proesecutor's office in Delaware where cklaims of domestic abuse were lodged by his ex-girlfriend. And there was the injuction for protection that led to NASCAR suspending him and focing him to sit out the Daytona 500.
I-95 south re-opened between Oak Hill & New Smyrna Beach in wake of clean-up for over-turned semi with sheet rock
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Photos for Headline Surfer® / This overturned semi, shown at left resulted in traffic snarling north on I-95 as the southbound lanes were closed for more than 6 hours shortly after the 9 a.m. Thursday accident near the Brevard County line as shown in this state DOT snapshot in the inset.
OAK HILL, Fla. -- Traffic has been flowing smoothly in both direction on Interstate 95, but that wasn't the case for the better part of the day when a tractor-trailer overturned on the south-bound side in Oak Hill and causing the south-bound lanes to be closed for more than 6 hours.
New Smyrna Beach firefighters 'pinned'
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Photos for Headline Surfer® /Edgewater Police Sgt. Robert Hazelwood 'pins' a promotion badge on his New Smyrna Beach firefighter-son, Brandon Hazelwood, at New Smyrna Beach City Hall.
NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. -- A firefighter received a promotional pin from his police officer-father during a ceremony before the City Commission, showing a penchant for public safety runs in the Hazelwood family.
82. DeLand cops: Man drinking beer in middle of road at night run over and killed
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DELAND, Fla. -- A man who stopped in the middle of the road to drink a beer the night of May 30, was struck and killed by a motorist in a Chevy Tahoe, DeLand cops said
83. NSB cops: Dim-witted alleged meth user cooks drugs in men's bathroom at Detwiler Park
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Photo for Headline Surfer® /NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. -- An alert construction worker helped police catch a homemade chemist turned burglar the day after Thanksgiving.
Just after 8 a.m., a construction worker called 9-1-1 to report smoke coming from the men’s restroom in Detwiler Park, 701 Oakwood Ave. The worker also saw a young man running from the area carrying a bag and Justin Hill, 20, of New Smyrna Beach, was apprehended a short time later and charged with trying to cook up meth in the men's bathroom at Detwiler Park.
