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Dark cloud hangs over Sunshine State with partisan political rancor amid Sunday's recounts in Broward & Palm Beach counties

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YouTube download / AP video / (11 Nov 2018) The recounting of Senate and gubernatorial ballots is underway in Florida's second most-populous county after it fixed problems with its machines.

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Amid continuing partisan political rancor from both sides, the court-mandated recounting of ballots for US senator and Florida governor was well underway Sunday in Broward County and across the Sunshine State.  

The recount of 700,000 votes in Broward, the second most populous of Florida's 64 counties, was delayed for three hours early on early on because a machine wasn’t registering all ballots when it was tested. GOP party observers on hand insisted all the machines and that task was carried out in earnest.

 

Headline Surfer Endorsements for Nov. 6 elections in Central Florida (Volusia, Orange & Seminole counties)

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Headline Surfer provides its endorsements for races at stake in the Nov. 6 elections at the federal, state, county and municipal levels in the Central Florida counties of Volusia, Orange and Seminole as follows:

Fla gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum wows Dems in Deltona: Touts Nancy Soderberg for Congress, Heidi Herzberg for mayor & State Rep Patrick Henry of Daytona for re-election

DELTONA, Fla. -- Florida gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum wowed Democratic supporters at a campaign stop in Volusia County's largest city Friday night with the partisan Deltona crowd chanting his signature phrase, "Bring It Home!"

Pipe bomb suspect from Florida has lengthy criminal record

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YouTube download / AP video / (26 Oct 2018) According to court and other public records, Cesar Alteri Sayoc Jr., 56, has been convicted on theft, stolen property and traffic charges and in 2002 on a threat to "throw, place, project or discharge any destructive device."

Florida resident Cesar Sayoc Jr, 56, arrested on multiple bomb-making related charges today, faces up to 58 years in federal prison, according to the feds.

A latent fingerprint lifted from one of 13 packages sent by mail was linked to Sayoc. His white van, seized by the FBI, had pro-Trump stickers adorned to the windows with the exception of the windshield. 

CNN reported Sayoc attended a-pro Trump rally in 2017 in Melbourne, FL. 

 

TC Wilder dies at home in New Smyrna Beach at 88

NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. -- Thomas Clinton “T. C.” Wilder, Jr., of New Smyrna Beach, formr owner of the Settle-Wilder Funeral Home and credited with spearhading establishment of the Canaveral National Seashjore, died Thursday, Oct. 18, 2018, at home. He was 88.

Deltona GOP party elders play host to Jeanette Nunez, running mate of gubernatorial candidate Ron DeSantis

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By HENRY FREDERICK
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DELTONA, Fla. -- The meter is running on the mid-term elections and the stakes are high, not only in Washington but here in the Sunshine State, especially in cities like Deltona, by far, the largest in Volusia County and with a sizeable Hispanic population. 

Port Orange Mayor Don Burnette tags along with Spruce Creek Elementary kids in National Walk to School Day

PORT ORANGE, Fla. -- Being the face of municipal government for Port Orange Mayor Don Burnette entails some really exciting duties like sitting through long-winded city council budget hearings, posing for grip-and-grin ribbon cuttings and sitting some more for the steady diet of community chicken dinner events.