DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — The France family love affair with racing began when Bill France was a teen willing to skip school to catch events in suburban Washington, D.C. “My Dad used to say he moved to Florida to get out of the weather in Washington; he always said, ‘I got tired of shoveling snow,’” Jim France, his youngest son, …
DAYTONA BEACH SHORES, Fla. — Damages are estimated at more than $522 million in a central Florida coastal county where homes collapsed into the Atlantic Ocean following Hurricane Nicole last week. The damages from the category 1 storm in Volusia County, home to Daytona Beach, exceeded those from the much stronger Hurricane Ian, which caused $377 million in the county, …
WILBUR-BY-THE-SEA, Fla. — Tropical Storm Nicole weakened to a tropical depression Thursday night as it crossed the Florida Panhandle on its way north into Georgia. The storm had sent Florida homes toppling into the Atlantic Ocean earlier Thursday and threatened a row of high-rise condominiums in places where Hurricane Ian washed away the beach and destroyed seawalls only weeks ago. …
