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Challenger Nancy Epps and incumbent dist 2 County Council member Joshua Wagner agree to public debate

Nancy Epps and Joshus WagnerHeadline Surfer photo by Henry Frederick / Former Ponce Inlet Mayor Nancy Epps, shown here, is challenging first-term dist. 2 Volusia County Council member Joshua Wagner in the Nov. 6 general elections.  

PORT ORANGE -- Challenger Nancy Epps and incumbent dist. 2 Volusia County Council member Joshua Wagner have each committed to participating in a public debate sponsored by Headline Surfer leading up to the Nov. 6 general elections.

Epps, who finished second to Wagner in the Aug. 14 primary in a three-way contest to force the run-off said she's looking forward to debating the issues.

Body of 17-year-old Avon Park boy recovered in New Smyrna Beach surf

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New Smyrna Beach mapGoogle map / An Avon Park boy, 17, drowned Friday in the surf off New Smyrna Beach.

night NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- The body of a 17-year-old Highlands County boy was recovered early this evening in the surf off New Smyrna Beach, the Orlando Sentinel and several other print newspapers reported in their online sites.

The body of the Avon Park teen was found just after 7 p.m. Capt. Tammy Marris of the Beach Patrol told the newspaper, adding he had been swimming with friends in area with no lifeguards when he went under about 4:30 p.m. The boy's name was not be released because authorities were in the process of contacting his family.

Headline Surfer, based in New Smyrna Beach as NSBNews.net, was not notified of the boy's disapperance or the recovery of his body by Volusia County officials. Messages left with Marris and Volusia County spokesman Dave Byron went unanswered.

Better care of America's foreign embassies and personnel by Washington a must

EDGEWATER -- I don’t understand why we allow Americans to be employed in embassies in volatile countries without better protection. ABC News with Diane Sawyer recently showed diagrams of the compound where we lost four American lives and how poorly they were protected.

Even the so called safe house which was far behind the outside walls was broken and burned. They didn’t have a place to go until help could arrive.

NSB Mayor Adam Barringer's wedding anniversary top visited story Wednesday

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NSB Mayor Adam Barringer and wifeHeadline Surfer images from Google News Directories for New Smyrna Beach /

The first anniversary of New Smyrna Beach Mayor Adam Barringer's marriage to Shannon Sumner on the beach with a spin on the topless photo flap involving royals William and Kate was the most visited story Wednesday on Headline Surfer. The story is in the third main news rotator. Here is a link for quicker access: http://headlinesurfer.com/content/410137-new-smyrna-beachs-royal-couple-celebrates-1-year-anniversary

Frank Bruno Senate candidate TV adThe initial general election campaign story of dist. 8 State Senate candidate Frank Bruno, featuring his embedded TV commercial,

Political club and newspaper conflicts brought to light in wake of Tiger Bay candidate debate snub

DAYTONA BEACH -- Jason Davis, the upstart county chair candidate snubbed in an earlier Tiger Bay Club debate that featured fellow candidates Carl Persis and Ted Doran, remained an after-thought Tuesday with a new debate between dist. 8 State Senate candidates Dorothy Hukill and Frank Bruno.
 

Romney absolutely right about entitlements

Liberal newspapers, media pundits and others of the loony left have had a field day because -- ta dah -- Mitt Romney told the truth. They have unearthed a secret video and splashed it all over the Internet.

They are furious and not holding back. This from NewsMax quoting New York Times columnist David Brooks who “called Romney's economic vision "a country-club fantasy." What? Get an education? Get a job? Own a home? Plan for the future? Be self-sufficient, reliable? Of course not. Those goals aren’t part of Obama’s plan for America.