James Smith was booked into the Volusia County Branch Jail early Thursday on aggravated rape charges.
NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- A 34-year-old man apprehended in Daytona Beach was arrested early this morning on rape charges involving violence on a female victim Wednesday night who had to be hospitalized for her injuries.
Photos for Headline Surfer / Ida Duncan Wright, shown here from a photo on her Facebook page, along with voter totals from Tuesday's special runoff election for the zone 2 seat on the Volusia County School Board, won easily and pledged to represent the voters with a 'high degree of integrity.'
ORMOND BEACH -- Let's examine the language of proposed assault weapons bans. The term assault weapon is a made up term used by lazy liberal journalists who think it distinguishes them from ordinary guns.
NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- The spirit of the holidays brings people together, makes everyone a little more charitable and makes life more than bearable.
DAYTONA BEACH -- The online site for the Daytona Beach News-Journal was down at 5 p.m.
Headline Surfer got an error mesage in calling up news-journalonline.com. The site was back online 10 minutes later.
EDGEWATER -- Edgewater cops are looking for a hit-and-run motorist who struck and killed a 75-year-old person walking north in the 2300 block of South Ridgewood Avenue at 6:55 p.m. Monday.
Award-winning journalist Henry Frederick, shown here, is the editor/publisher and owner of Headline Surfer (HeadlineSurfer.com), the 24/7 Internet newspaper launched Apri
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NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Mayor Adam Barringer is Headline Surfer's 2012 "Newsmaker of the Year" for being embroiled in a second scandal involving allegations of using his elected position for financial gain with his private business holdings, the latest resulting in an ethics complaint file with the state. He also appointed a friend to the planning board who admitted in court to buying cocaine from an undercover police officer, voted $20,000 in CRA taxpayer funding for a boyhood friend to fix up his bar and cursed out a rookie cop who wouldn't let him drive through a closed side street before the start of the Christmas parade -- a cop who served in combat in Iraq.
NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Bill Roe, proprietor of Ocean Properties, the premier Realtor in New Smyrna Beach, is Headline Surfer's choice as the 2012 "Citizen of the Year" for his patriotic spirit and loyalty to God, country and overall standing in the community.
Honorable mention for this year-end award is Sheriff Ben Johnson who handled himself with class and distinction in his successful re-election as Volusia County's top cop.
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DELAND -- County Council at-large member Joyce Cusack believes the time is at hand for she and her colleagues to take a critical look at how CRAs are being managed by the cities before and if any new agreements are struck as the current ones begin to sunset.
