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Salespeople long for days of old -- 2002

On a recent Thursday, a car salesman at Sunrise Automotive in Holly Hill smoked a cigarette outside, surveying the lot of used cars. You might think there would be an uptick in used-car sales with the economic downturn, but Michael Nealy, president of ...

From SETH ROBBINS, Daytona Beach News-Journal,  8 Nov 2008

Local auto dealers just hope to survive

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Jack Holcomb's waist has thinned since sales dropped at his two auto dealerships. "I've lost about 40 pounds," he said, sitting behind his desk one recent afternoon. "It's the best diet I've ever been on." The lagging sales have ...

From SETH ROBBINS, Daytona Beach News-Journal,  8 Nov 2008
Related Topics: Ford Motor Company

Voters celebrate and bellyache day after election

The noise of traffic on Woodland Boulevard disappears behind the door to Hunter's Restaurant where the tinkle of dishes and smell of bacon and eggs lure those who step inside on the morning after a historic election. A day earlier, DeLand's sidewalks ...

From RONALD WILLIAMSON AND SETH ROBBINS, Daytona Beach News-Journal,  6 Nov 2008
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  U.S. Republican Party,  George W. Bush,  John McCain,  Tommy Smith

Election officials report few problems at the polls

DELAND -- Voting ran smoothly Tuesday in Volusia County, with shorter wait times at the polls than during early voting. Flagler County election officials also reported no long lines at the polls. Ann McFall, supervisor of Elections for Volusia County, ...

From SETH ROBBINS, Daytona Beach News-Journal,  5 Nov 2008
Related Topics: Kurt Browning

Who are these undecideds?

The pundits, both on the right and the left, can agree on one thing: Undecided voters will decide our next president. Who are these swing voters, though, with their sexy moniker of promiscuity? An informal survey showed they have some common ...

From SETH ROBBINS, Daytona Beach News-Journal,  2 Nov 2008
Related Topics: John McCain,  Barack Obama,  Jon Stewart

Fire officials determine art gallery blaze accidental

DAYTONA BEACH -- The blaze that engulfed a Segrave Street art gallery was accidentally ignited, fire officials said. No one was injured in the fire Tuesday at Top Gallery, 316 N. Segrave St. The blaze started in the processing room of the picture frame ...

From SETH ROBBINS, Daytona Beach News-Journal,  31 Oct 2008

Competition goes to the dogs

DAYTONA BEACH -- Before strutting to center stage, the Gipper schmoozed with the judges, licking a few hands and offering his neck for a scratch. They would not be swayed. In this doggy competition, congeniality didn't matter, nor did looks. Rather, ...

From SETH ROBBINS, Daytona Beach News-Journal,  25 Oct 2008

Professor: Oration style a reflection of speaker's persona

Friends, Volusians, Flaglerites, lend me your ears. But how long has it been since you really used them? Ever since the early 1960s, when television came to dominate the political media, the sound bite -- gobbled both by ear and eye in less than thirty ...

From SETH ROBBINS, Daytona Beach News-Journal,  5 Oct 2008
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  John McCain,  George W. Bush,  Bill Clinton,  Mary McLeod Bethune

Biggest Fan

DAYTONA BEACH -- Eight bobblehead dolls still encased in their boxes. Twelve battered foul balls. Twenty-four faded T-shirts. And one Mr. Potato Head wearing a Cubs hat. What does it add up to? A lifetime of memories for Dennis Smith at Jackie Robinson ...

From SETH ROBBINS, Daytona Beach News-Journal,  1 Sep 2008
Related Topics: Dennis Smith,  Jackie Robinson,  Shoeless Joe Jackson

Case closed?

Crammed inside a single brown folder are the faded and tattered papers, reeking of must, that make up the case file of Volusia County's oldest unsolved murder. In the past six decades, only half a dozen investigators have opened it. When investigator ...

From SETH ROBBINS, Daytona Beach News-Journal,  17 Aug 2008
Related Topics: Federal Bureau of Investigation,  McDonald's

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