Daytona Beach Shores

Daytona Beach Shores police respond with SWAT team to suicide

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DAYTONA BEACH SHORES -- A SWAT team was called in several hours after Daytona Beach Shores Department of Public Safety officers received a call 2 p.m. Saturday of a suicidal man in his residence at 3716 S. Atlantic Ave. The man was later found dead inside his home, police said.

Failure in Washington to cut spending further erodes our economy

DAYTONA BEACH SHORES, Fla. -- In my last Guidepost, I very strongly urged the GOP to demand draconian spending cuts as the best means of saving our nation from bankruptcy and the world from a financial crash which could dwarf that of 2008, or even 1929.

Time to make meaningful cuts in spending in Washington and every state in the union

DAYTONA BEACH SHORES, Fla.  -- It is undeniably true, as several of our Republican leaders have said, that we do not have a revenue problem, we have a spending problem. In other words, government spending must be drastically reduced. Yet the Obama Administration continues to spend as if there were no end of money, driving our economy toward bankruptcy and the dollar toward collapse.

Judge's ruling against Obamacare jolt to leftist-government leanings of president

DAYTONA BEACH SHORES, Fla. -- Monday, Jan. 31, 2011, will go down in history as the day federal judge Roger Vinson moved the nation one very important step closer to a return to constitutional government and the defeat of Obama’s attempt to impose his vision of a leftist government fully in control of the lives and liberties of the people.

Send a message to Washington: Vote Republican in November elections

DAYTONA BEACH Shores, Fla. -- Republicans are calling for the voters to “send a Message to Washington” via the November elections. But what message should be sent?

Daytona Beach Shores cops: Two pedestrians and biker and passenger injured in South Atlantic Avenue collision Saturday night Henry Frederick Sun, 10/17/2010 - 00:37

DAYTONA BEACH SHORES -- Two pedestrians who were crossing South Atlantic Avenue when they hesitated then continued trying to cross after reaching the median and were struck by a Harley-Davidson, resulting in critical injuries to them as well as the biker and a passenger Saturday night, Daytona Beach Shores police reported.

Mainland High School football coach John Maronto resigns; two days after release of video alleging solicitation of sex with an undercover cop posing as a prostitute

The video and audio evidence against Mainland High School football Coach John Maronto released Monday by the State Attorney's Office leads to Volusia County's winningest coach stepping down today, though his criminal defense attorneys maintain his innocence. Maronto was scheduled to take his Mainland squad in two weeks to play at New Smyrna Beach against his former team, the Barracudas. He was New Smyrna Beach's coach in the mid 1990s.

DAYTONA BEACH -- Mainland High School football coach John Maronto abruptly resigned today, two days after release of a Daytona Beach police surveillance video by the State Attorney's Office that accuses him of soliciting sex from an undercover Daytona Beach female cop posing as a prostitute during the Labor Day weekend.

State Attorney's Office releases audio and video evidence in support of Daytona Beach P.D.'s prostitution arrest of Mainland H.S. football coach John Maronto; a former head coach at NSB High

The State Attorney's Office released its video and audio evidence against embattled Mainland High School football coach John Maronto to the media after NSBNEWS.net and other news organizations sought the digital evidence under Florida's freedom of information statutes. Maronto, 68, of Daytona Beach Shores, was arrested by Daytona Beach police two weekends ago during an undercover prostitution sting on the beachside. Maronto, the winningest football coach in Volusia County, held that position for New Smyrna Beach High in the mid 1990s. He's been allowed to continue coaching and teaching a gym class by Volusia County School District Superintendent Margaret Smith despite the misdemeanor arrest that has drawn widespread media coverage. After the 2 p.m. release of the electronic evidence, school district spokeswoman Nancy Wait said school officials were waiting for release of the video as well and would reassess the stuation.

DAYTONA BEACH -- In a frainy DVD video and accompanying audio, embattled Mainland High School football coach John Maronto is heard telling an undercover female cop he believes is a prostitute that he's "married," though it's his night out and he's looking for "sex" and willing to pay "fifty" for it, even asking the woman to get in his car.

NSB woman among five arrested in undercover strip-club busts by Daytona Beach Shores cops

DAYTONA BEACH SHORES, Fla. -- Lauren Heaton, 18, of New Smyrna Beach, was among five young women employed as strippers at the Biggins Gentlemen's Club who made decent tip money showing their assets to paying customers.