NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. -- A 71-year-ol motorist died shortly after transport to Florida Hospital New Smyrna Beach on Saturday morning after crashing his motor vehivcle into a utility pole that may have been precipitated by a medical episode, New Smyrna Beach cops said.
Always Dreaming prevailed in the 143rd running of the Kentucky Derby, winning on a rain-soaked muddy track at Churchill Downs in Louisville by 2¾ lengths with jockey John Velazquez on board.
At 9-2 odds, Always Dreaming was the pre-race favorite and did not disappoint, settling for the inside track early on and in second before Velasquez steered him to the front pretty quickly.
"He was running so gpod down the stretch," Velasquez said as Always Dreaming stayed the course up front.
This was the fifth consecutive Kentucky Derby that the pre-race favorite prevaild. Finishing in second a third, respctively were longshots: Lookin At Lee at 33-1, and Battle of Midway at 40-1. Velasqurez was pleased with the run by Always Dreaming, an 1¼ miles in 2:03.59 and paid $11.40, $7.20 and $5.80.
"This is the best horse (trainer) Todd (Pletcher) and I have ever come to the Kentucky Derby with,'' Velazquez said. "Being behind me for 24 years together, a long time for him to still trust in me and give me the opportunity, it's not very often it happens in this business.''
DELAND, Fla. -- Let's face it: Politics can be confusing, messy and downright emotionally charged.
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla -- The cops are asking citizens to call 9-1-1 if they see a 14-year-old African-American girl as shown in this accompanied still image.
Who knew? The crying Indian in the early 1970s ant-littering PSA commercial on TV was not Native American after all. This, according to Today I Found Out, the informative YouTube channel.
Simon Whistler, the narrator of the YouTube channel introduces the late Oscar “Iron Eyes” Cody as "The Crying Indian who wasn't."
Cody portrayed Native Americans in more than 200 films and countless television shows over his 64-year career. But his greatest role perhaps was that of the Native American Indian who sheds a ear when trash is thrown at his feet by those in a passing car near a riverbank after he's gotten out of a canoe.
Cody was actually the son of two Italian immigrants to the US.
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- For a little more than a decade now, Central Florida's major news outlets have long since become the servant to the master of the microphone and video camera -- Mike Chitwood -- the reality star of law enforcement media theatrics.
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- We are living through the divisive, hate-filled legacy of Barack Obama.
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Bob Tolley and his wife Marian received an escort Monday to Daytona Beach International Airport from their New Smyrna Beach residence for their flight to New York, thanks to a contingent of fire departments locally.
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Former National Security Adviser Susan Rice, the woman who lied to us about Benghazi, Bowe Bergdahl’s “honorable “ service, and her unmasking of the names of Americans incidentally included in intelligence intercepts, was given four pinocchios by the Washington Post for lying yet again – this time about the removal of chemical weapons from Syria.
The 8.5-acre fire off Pioneer Trail and Jungle Road was fully contained by 4 p.m., Sunday, officials with the Florida Forest Service in Bunnell told Headline Surfer, adding there were no evacuations and no structures were threatened by the nearby flames.
"We are continuing to closely monitor these wildfires and do everything we can to ensure our firefighters and first responders have all the resources they need to protect our communities," Scott said.
