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Blue at the Topaz in Flagler Beach expanding dining hours for holidays

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Blue at the Topaz restaurant in Flagler Beach, Fla / Headline Surfer®Photos for Headline Surfer® / Blue at the Topaz, 1224 S. Oceanshore Blvd., is a quaint and hospitable restaurant along the shoreline.

FLAGLER BEACH, Fla. -- Blue at the Topaz is extending its dining hours hours during this festive season.

“We are excited about bringing lunch hours back for the holidays,” said Kelli O’Reilly, the restaurant's general manager and co-owner. “The feedback from our customers has been great so far and we are happy to be able to accommodate group gatherings during this time of year.”

Seminole County Sheriff's Office: Apopka man arrested on kiddie porn charges

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Accused of sharing downloaded images with other adults

Donald Murray of Apopka is charged with possession of child porn / Headline Surfer®Photo for Headline Surfer® / Donald Murray bonded out of jail on child porn charges. This is a jail mug of Murray from a previous unrelated arrest.

APOPKA -- The Seminole County Sheriff's Office Crimes Against Children Unit arrested an Apopka man on nearly a dozen child porn charges.

Donald Murray, 49, was arrested on a search warrant Monday, alleging 10 counts of possession of obscene material/child pornography and one count of distribution of obscene material/child pornography.

"Investigators yesterday executed a search warrant at Murray’s residence after receiving information from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement that possible child pornography images had been detected and were associated with an IP address belonging to Murray," Seminole County Sheriff's spokesman Heather Smith told Headline Surfer®."A preliminary forensic analysis of Murray’s computer found child pornography and evidence that he was sharing the images with others."

VCSO: DeLand man reported missing after jail release may be in Daytona Beach; needs meds

Scott Mandis is missing and considered endangered / Headline Surfer®Photo for Headline Surfer® / Scott Mandis, 33, has not returned to an assisted living facility and is in need of medicine and may be somewhere in the Daytona area. 

DAYTONA BEACH -- The Volusia County Sheriff's Office is seeking the public's help in locating a man with a diminished mental capacity who has been missing for a week and requires medication.

Scott Mandis, 33, was arrested Nov. 18 in DeLand on a trespassing charge and was released from the Volusia County Branch Jail in Daytona Beach the next day, but has been missing since.

Deltona City Commissioner calls on 'all elected officials' locally to condemn KKK flyer drop in New Smyrna Beach Henry Frederick Sat, 11/23/2013 - 13:09
Deltona City Commissioner Webster Barnaby speaks out against KKK flyer drop in New Smyrna Beach, FL / Headline Surfer®Photo for Headline Surfer / Deltona City Commissioner, Webster Barnaby, shown here at left, is one of three Volusioa County officials to speak out against the KKK flyer drop in New Smyrna Beach. The other two are County Chair Jason Davis and at-large County Council member Joyce Cusack.
 

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Deltona City Commissioner Webster Barnaby is incensed very few elected officials in Volusia County have publicly condemned the Nov. 11 recruitment flyer drop by the Ku Klux Klan in the historic Westside African-American community of New Smyrna Beach, a tourism-destination city known for its surfing, street festivals and laid-back charm.

Theory on anniversary of John F. Kennedy's assassination: LBJ had JFK killed because he wanted to be president

EDGEWATER -- With this being the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's assassination, everyone keeps asking: Who killed the president? Was it a lone gunman in Lee Harvey Oswald or as the conspiracy theories suggest, he had help? Did Lee Harvey cart alone? Did shots come from the grassy Knoll? There are many theories.

JFK 50 years later

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YouTube video uploads / At left is a copy of the Zapruder film of the assassination of President Kennedy, on this, the 50th anniversary of that fateful day that shocked the nation and the world. At right is a video recap of the TV network bulletins for ABC, CBS and NBC.

DAYTONA BEACH -- For many Americans who were home the afternoon of Nov. 22, 1963, the CBS television soap opera "As the World Turns" was in its opening 10 minutes minutes, when their world stopped with the news bulletin announced by Walter Cronkite: "Here is a bulletin from CBS News. In Dallas, Texas, three shots were fired at President Kennedy's motorcade in downtown Dallas. The first reports say that President Kennedy has been seriously wounded by this shooting."

Waverly Media investigation shows divided county council

DELAND, Fla. -- "I move to hire a special counsel to independently advise the County Council on a process and procedure, pursuant to Section 309 of the Volusia County Charter, in order to make investigation into the affairs of county governmental operations, relating to the Waverly matter, in order to determine whether new legislation is required for purchase or additional ethical standards of conduct for public officials in light of the investigation." And so went the motion by Councilwoman Patricia Northey, which was seconded by Councilman Pat Patterson, that got the ball rolling on partisan bickering.

 

County Chair Jason Davis: KKK flyer drop in New Smyrna Beach's African-American Westside community a 'hate crime'

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KKK flyers in New Smyrna Beach's black Westside neighborhood / Headline Surfer®New Smyrna Beach police supplement on KKK flers in black neighborhood / Headline Surfer®

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Volusia County Chair Jason davis has no doubt the dropping of recruitment flyers in New Smyrna Beach's historically African-American Westside community was a deliberate act and as such sees it as a hate crime.

Daytona Beach International Airport passenger traffic up 9%

Passenger traffic up 9% at Daytona International Speedway / Headline Surfer®Small planes use Daytona Beach International Airport / Headline Surfer®Photos for Headline Surfer® / Large and small planes use Daytona Beach Internatuonal Airport, which has seen passenger service increase by 1 percent in thr past year.
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Passenger traffic at Daytona Beach International Airport increased 9 percent during October compared to October of a year ago.

During October, 50,930 incoming and outgoing passengers traveled through the county-operated airport. This compares with 46,704 passengers in October 2012.

And for for the past 12 months, 602,146 travelers have flown in and out of the airport, a 1 percent increase compared to the year.

BREAKING: Justice Dept. to visit New Smyrna Beach to investigate KKK situation in African-American Westside

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Mayor Adam Barringer, Councilwoman Deborah Denys remain silent

KKK flyers left in front of homes in New Smyrna Beach's black Westside community / Hreadline Surfer®

New Smyrna Beach Mayor Adam Barringer, member of all-white, all-male Anglers Cub silent on KKK / Headline Surfer®County Councilwoman Deb Denys silent on KKK in New Smyrna Beach / Headline Surfer®While the Rev. Lorenzo Laws was praying with his congregation  in the black Westside community of New Smyrna Beach tthat was the target of hate recruitment flyers of the KKK, Mayor Adam Barringer, a member of the all-white, all-male Anglers Club,  and County Councilwoman Deb Denys, remained silent and out of media reach.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Pastor Lorenzo Laws of the Allen Chapel AME Church informed his parishioners in Sunday morning's sermon that he was contacted by a senior staffer in the Miami field office of the U.S. Department of Justice and she's making arrangements to personally pay a visit to the city and "get to the bottom" why blacks got the lion's share of Ku Klux Klan flyers.