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Daytona Beach cops: Orlando man arrested in shocking throat-slash murders of local husband & wife on way home from Bike Week

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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla, -- An arrest has been made in the murders of a married couple who were found dead four days ago as they were heading home from Bike Week festivities on Main Street.

First shark bite of 2022 reported in New Smyrna Beach: New Jersey man, 21, fishing in waist-deep water bitten by 5-6 foot blacktip shark

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NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. -- Volusia County has had its first reported shark bite incident of 2022: A 21-year-old New Jersey man fishing at New Smyrna Beach in waist-deep water was bitten by a 5-6 foot blacktip shark, according to Volusia County Safety Ocean Rescue.

Daytona Beach Shores cops: Five Orlando-area teens in stolen vehicle arrested for attempted car break-ins at beachside resort

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DAYTONA BEACH SHORES – Five Orlando-area teenagers trying to break into vehicles at a Daytona Beach Shores hotel fled from a Daytona Beach Shores Public Safety officer who attempted to stop their vehicle on South Atlantic Avenue, but were soon found hiding in a residential neighborhood in Port Orange and arrested.

Daytona Beach cops offer $50,000 reward for info leading to an arrest in throat slash murders of husband & wife on way home from Bike Week

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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- A $50,000 reward is now being offered by Daytona Beach Police for anyone who has information leading to an arrest in the murders of a husband and wife who were murdered after leaving the Bike Week festivities on Main Street early Sunday under cover of darkness.

Daytona Beach cops: Grisly double-murder just a block from Main St - epicenter of Bike Week - husband & wife stabbed - their throats slashed

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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- A local husband and wife on bicycles checking out the Bike Week scene on Main Street were found brutally murdered on a side street over the weekend - both stabbed multiple times and their throats slashed, Daytona Beach cops said.

Daytona Bike Week fatalities; Four bikers in Central Florida have died in the first weekend of the big motorcycle rally

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DAYTONA BEACH,  Fla. -- Five motorcycle riders have died in four different crashes around Central Florida since Saturday night, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.

Daytona Beach cops: Man hospitalized in stable condition with gunshot wound in the chest during apparent robbery early Sunday morning at Bike Week

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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- One man is in stable condition at a local hospital and another is detained by the Daytona Beach Police Department after cops responded to the shooting off of Main Street on the first Sunday of Bike Week 2022, a Daytona Beach police spokesman said.

26. Ex-Sanford Mayor Jeff Triplett, who was at the helm during the Trayvon Martin homicide, dies of lung cancer at 52

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SANFORD, Fla. -- Jeff Triplett, the former Sanford mayor who led the city through the Trayvon Martin-George Zimmerman crisis more than eight years ago, died of lung cancer on Feb. 27, 202, at the age of 52 - a shocking breaking news development considering few people even knew he had been sick.