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DELAND, Fla. -- Sheriff Mike Chitwood's personal grudge against the award-winning internet news outlet continued for the 77th day as Headline Surfer was the last media outlet to learn the identity of the distraught attorney who apparently was drinking and suicidal when he fired shots at the law firm he shares with his estranged wife and co-counsel in their law practice on Sunday before fleeing in his Mercedes and engaging in a gunbattle with deputies and a DeLand cop before he was shot to death.

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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Sheriff Michael J. Chitwood was universally condemned by five leading former county leaders contacted by Headline Surfer for their reaction to the elected lawman's pointed description of County Manager Jim Dinneen as a "lying sack of (expletive)" in a story published Wednesday in the Daytona Beach News-Journal.

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- This is the Bike Week scene from Main Street in Daytona via live stream around the clock by DaytonaBikeWeek.com, which has a video cam on site. You can interact with others in the live comment section by clicking the YouTube video. This is ground zero for the annual biker rally that draws several hundred thousand motorcycle enthusiasts from across the US. 

YouTube download / Daytona BikeWeek video / The sights and sounds of Daytona Bike Week 2017.

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Certainly, you've heard of the jingle, "Yes! We Have No Bananas." Well bananas, sand and sardines are things we could be running out of.

DELTONA, Fla -- Headline Surfer was not notified by the Volusia County Sheriff's Office of a homicide that occurred Saturday in Deltona in which two suspects in a Dodge Dart who were seen fleeing after gunning down a 40-year-old man in the 2300 block of Fountain Road, who was transported to Florida Hospital Fish Memorial in Orange City, where he was pronounced dead shortly after arrival. 

LAKE MARY, Fla. -- Two baby-faced teens, ages 13 and 14,  were hanging around on bicycles in the middle of the night with thw other juveniles when an alert neighbor caught them pilfering pocket change and gift cards from her unlocked vehicle before they were forced to high-tail it on their bikes.

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Would you ride in a driverless ambulance? In three separate studies, about half of 1,028 US adults polled were significantly less willing to be lifted into an automated ambulance, compared with a conventional one, researchers from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and Florida Institute of Technology have discovered.