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Videos produced by Sera Frederick / Attendees highlighted are re-introduced in the first video, 'Lincoln Day Personalities,' with the song 'One' by U2 while the second video, 'Lincoln Day Personalities 2,' retains Neil Young's 'Rockin' in the Free World.'  

DAYTONA BEACH -- When it comes to using third party songs as background on videos uploaded to YouTube, it almost becomes a guessing game as to what record companies will challenge the "Fair Rights Act" that allows for use of copyrighted material without permission if what is used is for editorial criticism or for general public knowledge enhancement.

DAYTONA BEACH -- A video produced by Headline Surfer showing still photos of attendees from Friday night's Lincoln Day Dinner at the Daytona Beach Plaza Resort and set to the background song, "We're an American Band," by classic rock group Grand Funk Railroad has been blocked by YouTube at the request of music giant EMI.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- The Little Theatre of New Smyrna Beach will host three WonderLand Summer Camps.

# A summer camp for 8 to 14 year olds from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The camp will begin on June 10, and run for two weeks, ending on June 21. The cost of the camp is $240. It features "The Hobbit Adventure," a play by Edward Mast, adapted from J.R.R. Tolkien's novel, a suspenseful, fast-moving journey through the sometimes dark, sometimes charming, always compelling world of Middle Earth.

Headline Surfer videos produced by Sera Frederick / Congressman Ron DeSantis brought the house down at the Lincoln Day Dinner.

DAYTONA BEACH -- Who says Volusia County's Republicans can't rock? Feeding off the successful November campaign victories of County Chair Jason Davis, dist. 3 Council member Deb Denys and dist. 3 Council member Pat Patterson, as well as Dorothy Hukill for the State Senate and State Reps. David Santiago and Dave Hood, all newcomers to their elected posts, there's plenty of momentum continuing to build on six months later. 

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- You'd think juggling a marriage, family and career would be enough to handle for Edgewater's Kerry-Anne Purkiss, but she takes motherhood to a whole new level as a community mentor to a dozen or so other children in the greater New Smyrna Beach.

Headline Surfer photo by Serafina Frederick / Birds fly high on New Smyrna Beach, but not because of a large quantity of old pot that washed up on shore on 2010.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Fireworks debris wasn't the only thing littering the beach on the Fourth of July weekend three years ago.

Something else that requires a flame washed up on shore: A kilo of marijuana. The discovery comes in at No. 499 in Headline Surfer's countdown of the top 500 stories of its 5th anniversary.

DAYTONA BEACH – Nine-time GRAMMY winner Sheryl Crow, whose long list of hits include “All I Wanna Do,” “Soak Up The Sun” and her latest single “Easy,” will perform a hour-long pre-race concert prior to the 55th annual Coke Zero 400 Powered By Coca-Cola NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race on Saturday, July 6 at Daytona International Speedway.

And you won't find a bigger fan than Daytona International Speedway President Joie Chitwood. 

Headline Surfer graphic / Riccilynn Rigoli, 32, and mother of three girls, shown with her husband of two years, Donald J. Rigoli, is the fatality victim in the early Monday rollover on the South Causeway Bridge. 

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Below is a copy of the 4-page preliminary police report from the NSBPD on the 12:43 a.m. single-vehicle crash in the westbound lanes of South Causeway Bridge that resulted in the death of 32-year-old Riccilynn Rigoli, a Port Orange resident and mother of three, on her way home with her husband after partying at the Cinco de Mayo festival on Flagler Avenue.