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Volusia's Ugly Streak: 200 Days & Counting with Sheriff Mike Chitwood's spiteful blockade of Headline Surfer & county leaders all silent

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Ed Kelley, Billie Egger Wheeler, Heather Post, Deb Denys, Joyce Cusack, Pat Patterson & Fred Lowry all have 2 things in common: 1. They are elected members of the Volusia County Council; 2. They have said nothing -- not one word publicly -- about Volusia Sheriff Mike Chitwood's spiteful exclusion of HeadlineSurfer.com from his law enforcement agency's email media alerts and banning from press conferences.

Ted Doran & other Daytona-area attorneys remember retired Circuit Judge Kim C. Hammond who died Sunday

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Ted Doran, one of Central Florida's top lawyers, said there was "no finer man in the world," than Kim C. Hammond, a retired circuit judge who passed away Sunday at age 72. 

Voting Tally on suggested names for former Port Orange police station

Port Orange Administrative/Administration 21
  Allen Green 14
  City of Port Orange Administration/Administrative 14
  Dr. John Milton Hawks 10
  Building McBuildingface 9
  Port Orange Annex 9
  James Richard Sr. 7
  City Center  6

BREAKING NEWS: Sanford cops arrest man on gun-related homicide charges after early morning argument over a cigar turns deadly

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SANFORD, Fla. -- Sanford Police investigators said they have arrested Joseph A. Irwin for the gunshot-homicide of James Gilson, after an argument over a cigar turned deadly several hours before sunrise today.

NSB book club to meet July 25 to review ‘House of Sand and Fog’

NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. -- Members of the NSB Select/Reflect Book Club will meet at 10 a.m. Tuesday, July 25, at the New Smyrna Beach Regional Library to watch the movie “House of Sand and Fog” and then discuss the novel of the samename by Andre Dubus III.