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- 1. The Daytona Beach News-Journal | Sunday, September 18, 2016B1 FOLLOW US Mark Lane is the metro columnist and writes the occasional feature story. Follow him on Twitter @OtherMarkLane NEWS-JOURNAL SCOOP Contact us with tips and breaking news at njscoop@news-jrnl.com or 386-681-2220 volusia news Today in History Coast Guard looking for kayaks owner The United States Coast Guard is looking for the owner of a red and yellow kayak found near New Smyrna Beach inlet on Saturday. The Coast Guard said in a statement that a good Samaritan reported the empty kayak around 2 p.m.油The Pyranaha kayak HIN number is JBBNJDXK304. The Coast Guard Station Ponce de Leon boat crews and a油heli- copter crew from Air Station Clearwater are searching for a possible missing kayaker. New Smyrna Beach Patrol, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conser- vation Commission and Volusia County Sheriffs Office crews also searched, but Capt. Tamra Marris from油Volusia County Beach Safety Ocean Rescue said their search ended around 3:45 p.m with no results.油 There have been no missing person reports in the area, the Coast Guard said.油 Anyone with information on the kayaks owner is asked to contact the Coast Guard Sector Jacksonville Command Center at 904-714-7561. Allison Shirk Back the Blue rolls into Daytona Beach A coast-to-coast event sup- porting police officers across the nation Saturday afternoon brought miles and miles of jeeps 油some with Ameri- can flags flying out the back 油down Interstate 4 eastbound and headed toward Bruce Ross- meyers Daytona location. Back the Blue Florida was a convoy of vehicles that began in Tampa and ended in Daytona Beach in an effort to show sup- port for officers nationwide. According to the groups web- site, www.backthebluefl.com, it started out as a couple hundred jeeps and grew to a multi-state effort, Allison Shirk 油 24 people rescued from elevator Twenty-four people trapped in a hotel elevator were rescued Friday night, according to a news release from the Daytona Beach Fire Department. Firefighters responded to a call about a stuck elevator in the north tower of the Hilton Resort on Daytona Beachs beachside at 9:40 p.m. Once on scene, hotel employ- ees told firefighters that one of the individuals inside the elevator was complaining of a medical problem. Firefighters entered the elevator shaft and determined the elevator was stuck between the lobby and the third floor. All of the occupants were safely removed from the eleva- tor. Other than the one patient who experienced dizziness and weakness, the other 23 people were not injured. Staff Report 1946: Florida switches state road numbers Floridas road department changed the numbering system for state highways starting Sept. 18, 1946, and signs were switched accordingly. Whats now State Road 40, was State Road 75 under the old system. Whats now State Road 44 was changed from State Road 21. QUESTIONS? Contact Editor John Gallas at 386-681-2445 or john.gallas@news-jrnl.com Local By Katie Kustura katie.kustura@news-jrnl.com DAYTONA BEACH The legal drama surrounding the gentlemens club Grandview Live has taken another turn around the pole with new accusations of theft, drugs and conspiracy. A legal document filed by the attorney for 2D2G the com- pany formed by Robert Russell and Brett Hartley, tenants of 640 N. Grandview Ave. claimsHartleyandthebuildings owners, who recently filed to have2D2Gevicted,conspiredto cut Russell out of the business. GRANDVIEW LIVE Strip club feud escalates Drug, conspiracy allegations latest twist in Daytona club owners dispute A flyer at the Republican headquarters in New Smyrna Beach caused a ruckus last week. It was denounced by the local party chair. Its author was banned from the office. It caused the headquarters to be picketed by about 30 people carrying signs saying things like Shame, shame on NSB GOP. And it sparked news- paper stories and a TV news report. The handout was in the form of a letter arguing that gov- ernment benefit programs are worse than slavery for black people because at least under slavery they were better off than they were in Africa. When will you ever learn? the flyer closed, addressing black voters directly. Its author, Richard Gal- breath, wondered what the fuss is about. What was wrong with the letter? he asked when told about the planned demonstration. Where would one even begin? First off, the stated intention of the letter was to persuade more black people to vote Republican. Yet within days of it being handed to an actual black person, a multiracial Footnote How not to pitch to minority voters Mark Lane By Tony Holt and Mark Harper tony.holt@news-jrnl.com mark.harper@news-jrnl.com PALM COAST油 At 11, FranciscoCruzIIIdoesntyet have a vote. But he has a voice a voice thatjustgotamplifiedbyHill- aryClintonduringaspeechat the Congressional Hispanic Caucus gala late Thursday. He wears his Love Trumps Hate pin every day and refuses to take it off, Clinton told her audience in Washington and carried live on networks including CNN. Whenhisfatherwarnedhim that might make him a target for bullies, Francisco looked his father in the eye and he said, I was always told to standupformyselfandwhatI believeinandIbelieveTrump is wrong.油 2016 ELECTION With his parents Maribel Mejia Cruz and Francisco Cruz Jr. behind him, 11-year-old Francisco Cruz III, a Belle Terre Elementary student, proudly shows off his Love Trumps Hate button Friday. Hillary Clinton mentioned him and the button in a speech Thursday. NEWS-JOURNAL photos/JIM TILLER GOOD FOR YOU, FRANCISCO Palm Coast boy, 11, thrilled about mention in Clinton speech By T.S. Jarmusz tony.jarmusz@news-jrnl.com The worlds largest rodent is on the loose in Florida油 and theres only one biologist in America studying how to stop it. In what sounds like a B movie plot, a group of capybaras essentially oversized South American guinea pigs that weigh more than Justin Bieber escaped a research facility in northern Florida in the 1990s. Thecreatureshavesincemated, andunconfirmedsightingshave placed as many as 50 in the state, most along the Santa Fe River, said Elizabeth Congdon, assistant professor at Bethune- Cookman University. So just how big is it? Huge. The animals scientific name, Hydrochoerus hydro- chaeris, means water hog, according to a San Diego Zoo fact sheet. And weighing in at up to 150 pounds, the critter lives up to its moniker. To put it B-CU PROFESSOR AN EXPERT What you need to know about Floridas largest rodent A mother capybara with her young. Photo courtesy of Bethune-Cookman University Grandview Live in Daytona Beach remains open despite a legal feud between its partners that includes allega- tions of drug use in the club. News-Journal/ NIGEL COOK SEE club, B2 SEE lane, B2 SEE francisco, B2 SEE rodents, B2 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton gave 11-year-old Palm Coast supporter Francisco Cruz III a shoutout at the end of this speech last week at the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institutes 39th Annual Gala Dinner in Washington. Andrew Harnik/the associated press