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Tornado Warning for Northern Flagler County Until 4:45 p.m., Watch until 8 p.m. Wednesday

March 30, 2011 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

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Some 33 North Florida counties, including Flagler, St. Johns and Volusia, are under the tornado watch advisory as a large swirl of sever storms moves from the Panhandle across the northern portion of the state.

July 4th Twice Over Again As Flagler Beach And Palm Coast Will Each Launch Fireworks

March 30, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

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The Tourist Development Council would grant each city $15,000. Flagler Beach will have the July 4 display this time, while Palm Coast will launch on July 3rd, at Town Center. Last year, they did it in reverse.

Circuit Judge Julianne Piggotte, in Daytona Beach, Retiring After 21 Years

March 29, 2011 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

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Piggotte has been a judge since 1990, and was chief judge of the Seventh Judicial Circuit, which includes Flagler County, from 2003 to 2005.

For Palm Coast, Community Centers Are “Pie in the Sky” But City Hall Hovers Closer

March 29, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

The city council says there’s no money for ambitious, long-range plans for community centers it discussed on Tuesday, although at previous meetings it never disputed the availability of $10 million for a new city hall.

15-Year-Old Faces Charges Over a .40-Caliber Gun at Indian Trails Middle School Campus

March 29, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 38 Comments

The .40-caliber Springfield similar to the one a student had shown at the Indian Trails Sports Complex.

The gun never made it into the school building, nor was it found during school hours. But Travis Williams was already serving a 10-day suspension from school when he allegedly walked with the gun on school property.

Gov. Scott Vows to End “Oxycontin Express,” Yet Legislature Weakens Pill Mill Regulations

March 29, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

When it comes to pill mills and drugs such as Oxycontin and Oxycodone, it's not yet clear, in Florida, who has what, or whom, in a vise. (© Steve Gray)

Gov. Rick Scott gave no details on his assault on the “Oxycontin Express,” and a Senate committee approved eliminating a ban on doctors dispensing more than a three-day supply of drugs to patients who pay with cash or credit cards.

Flagler Reads Together: Huckleberry Finn, Chapter 29

March 29, 2011 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

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In celebration of the 10th anniversary of Flagler Reads Together, FlaglerLive is serializing Huckleberry Finn, this year’s book. Here’s Chapter 29: Contested Relationship; The King Explains the Loss; A Question of Handwriting; Digging up the Corpse; Huck Escapes; With E.W. Kemble’s original illustrations.

From Teacher Merit Pay to Charter School Expansion: Legislature Marches On

March 28, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

Old school: the Florida Legislature is demolishing education as the state knew it. Charter schools and merit pay.

Like the swiftly-approved teacher merit pay reforms, the push to expand charter schools, including expanding preferential admittance, has the strong backing of Gov. Rick Scott, and continues to revamp education.

Flagler Firefighters Battling 2-Day, 300-Acre Brush Fire on Old Brick Road

March 28, 2011 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

The fire started Saturday, at the same time that firefighters were responding to the plane crash and ensuing brush fire at the Flagler County airport. The brush fire was 30 percent contained by Monday afternoon.

As the School District Agonizes Over Cuts, Imagine Prepares to Almost Double in Size

March 28, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 21 Comments

Imagine School at Town Center is expanding to accommodate 910 students even as the rest of the district’s enrollment stalls and its budgets are being slashed. A video report of Imagine’s expansion plans.

Yes, Stetson Kennedy Is Still Alive: Labor and Civil Rights Legend at Stetson Wednesday

March 28, 2011 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

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Stetson Kennedy, who unmasked the Ku Klux Klan after infiltrating it and remains a prominent voice for unions, labor and civil rights, gives a free lecture at Stetson University. He is 94.

Our Legislature for Sale, Breastfeeding Stupidity, End of High School Sports: The Live Wire

March 28, 2011 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Rick Scott’s sunshine problems, developers’ Florida free-for-all, return of the pythons in the Everglades, nuclear accidents, cave art, Hunter S. Thompson interviews Keith Richards, and more.

Flagler Reads Together: Huckleberry Finn, Chapter 28

March 28, 2011 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

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In celebration of the 10th anniversary of Flagler Reads Together, FlaglerLive is serializing Huckleberry Finn, this year’s book. Here’s Chapter 28: The Trip to England; “The Brute!”; Mary Jane Decides to Leave; Huck Parting with Mary Jane; Mumps; The Opposition Line; With E.W. Kemble’s original illustrations.

Flagler Reads Together: Huckleberry Finn, Chapter 27

March 27, 2011 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

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In celebration of the 10th anniversary of Flagler Reads Together, FlaglerLive is serializing Huckleberry Finn, this year’s book. Here’s Chapter 27: The Funeral; Satisfying Curiosity; Suspicious of Huck; Quick Sales and Small; With E.W. Kemble’s original illustrations.

Blue Skies, Wild Bill: Wings Over Flagler Bids Fallen Pilot Farewell

March 27, 2011 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Wild Bill Walker, a veteran of Alabama’s Red Thunder Air Show Team, was 58 when his plane crashed Saturday. Fellow pilots paid tribute to him today at the Wings Over Flagler air show, which ended on a sober, sunny roar of flights into the blue.

Video: The Crash Scene Shortly After the Yak-52 Went Down at Wings Over Flagler

March 27, 2011 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

The tail end of the Yak-52 shortly after the crash. Click on the image for larger view. (© Robert Kilroy for FlaglerLive)

This video from the crash scene at the Flagler/Palm Coast Wings Over Flagler air show was provided by Robert Kilroy, and taken within an hour of the accident.

Palm Coast’s Shaklyia Chess, 16-Year-Old FPC Student, Killed in Wreck South of Bunnell

March 27, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 24 Comments

Shaklyia Chess was a 16-year-old junior at Flagler Palm Coast High School. She was driving south late Saturday night on US1 when she lost control of her car.

Flagler Reads Together: Huckleberry Finn, Chapter 26

March 26, 2011 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

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In celebration of the 10th anniversary of Flagler Reads Together, FlaglerLive is serializing Huckleberry Finn, this year’s book. Here’s Chapter 26: A Pious King; The King’s Clergy; She Asked His Pardon; Hiding in the Room; Huck Takes the Money; With E.W. Kemble’s original illustrations.

Single-Engine Yak 52 Crashes at Wings Over Flagler; One Pilot Is Dead; Tribute on Sunday

March 26, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

The Yak 52 went down at 4:27 p.m. while in the middle of a maneuver with another plane. The pilot was killed.

Wings Over Flagler: Warbirds, Yakrobatics and Tributes This Weekend at the County Airport

March 26, 2011 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Pilot Doug Matthews of West Palm Beach in front of his vintage 1944 P-51 Mustang. (© FlaglerLive)

Wings Over Flagler, the second annual fly-in at the Flagler County Airport, features several dozen vintage warbirds, choppers and other attractions. Visitors can chat with pilots and mingle with history. With a photo gallery.

Flagler Reads Together: Huckleberry Finn, Chapter 25

March 25, 2011 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

In celebration of the 10th anniversary of Flagler Reads Together, FlaglerLive is serializing Huckleberry Finn, this year’s book. Here’s Chapter 25: Is It Them?; Singing the “Doxologer”; Awful Square; Funeral Orgies; A Bad Investment; With E.W. Kemble’s original illustrations.

Flagler Sex Survey: Most Students and Parents OK Better Sex-Ed and Condoms in Schools

March 25, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

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Preliminary results from the broadest sex survey every conducted in Flagler schools point to sexual activity among 30 percent of middle school,teens and broad approval for more than abstinence-only education.

Flagler Unemployment Drops to 14.9%, Lowest Since May 2009; Florida Improves to 11.5%

March 25, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 17 Comments

While Flagler County is still at the top of the unemployment chart in the state, improvements suggest that job creation is finally reaching Florida, which added 22,000 net jobs. Flagler’s employed grew by 360.

Wreck and Fatality on I-95, Just South of Flagler-Volusia Line

March 25, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

A single-vehicle wreck and a fatality closed the southbound lanes of I-95 this morning at mile marker 276 in Volusia County, leading to a five-mile back-up to the State Road 100 interchange in Flagler County.

FPL, Progress Energy, Florida’s Nuclear Fraud

March 25, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

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Florida taxpayers and ratepayers are footing the bill of Florida Power & Light’s and Progress Energy’s risk-free, $40-billion plan to build nuclear reactors, a fraud enabled by the Legislature and Congress.

Flagler Beach Dog Lovers: “If We Wanted More Rules We’d Go To Palm Coast”

March 24, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 28 Comments

More enforcement of existing rules and more self-policing, but no change in Flagler Beach’s dogs-on-the-beach ordinance, city commissioners decided after hearing from 38 people over 90 minutes Thursday evening.

She Trusted Them, Put Them Up, They Robbed Her of $50,000: Marsha Fingland’s Story

March 24, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Local Realtor Marsha Fingland trusted John and Joanne Johnson when they claimed to be inheritors of millions looking for a church to tithe, and places to stay before they could tap their money. She turned out to be their scam’s latest victim.

Gov. Scott Orders Florida’s 33 Public Hospitals Reviewed for Possible Privatization

March 24, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

As the former CEO of a private hospital chain, Scott was opposed to publicly-run hospitals, which he considers to have an unfair competitive advantage over the privately run sort. The commission is a first step toward privatization.

States’ Buck-Passing, NASA Waste, Your Ignorance, Google’s Gaga: The Live Wire

March 24, 2011 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

How states pass the buck to cities, how Nasa wastes $1.4 million a day, health care reform’s many liars, living with nukes, Israel’s goodbye to peace, the winter of our lesbian content, Julian Schnabel and more.

Flagler Reads Together: Huckleberry Finn, Chapter 24

March 24, 2011 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

In celebration of the 10th anniversary of Flagler Reads Together, FlaglerLive is serializing Huckleberry Finn, this year’s book. Here’s Chapter 24: Jim in Royal Robes; They Take a Passenger; Getting Information; Family Grief; With E.W. Kemble’s original illustrations.

Children as Billboards: From School Buildings to Buses, a Lunge for Ads and Revenue

March 23, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 24 Comments

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The Flagler school district just broadened its advertising policy to allow ads in school buildings, websites and uniforms. State lawmakers are moving toward lifting the ban on ads on schoolbuses to make up for revenue the state is cutting.

88-Year-Old Palm Coast Woman Scammed by Dominican Republic Phone Fraud

March 23, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

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A scammer in the Dominican Republic claimed the Palm Coast resident’s grandson was in jail and needed $2,500 to be released. The grandson was, in fact, still in the military. The woman lost her money.

Murder-Suicide Update: Shooting Took Place Saturday, According to Autopsy Results

March 23, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

David Sharp shot his wife Terry Sharp twice—once in the chest, once in the head–according to the sheriff’s office, then shot himself once in the head.

How Grim Are State School Spending Cuts? Try 7 to 10% Per Student, Layoffs to Follow

March 23, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

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Florida House and Senate proposals would cut from $447 to $473 per student, or close to 7 percent, a little less than Gov. Rick Scott’s proposal to slash per-student spending by $680 in addition to recent reductions.

Flagler Reads Together: Huckleberry Finn, Chapter 22

March 23, 2011 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

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In celebration of the 10th anniversary of Flagler Reads Together, FlaglerLive is serializing Huckleberry Finn, this year’s book. Here’s Chapter 22: Sherburn; Attending the Circus; Intoxication in the Ring; The Thrilling Tragedy; With E.W. Kemble’s original illustrations.

Rick Scott Orders State Employees Randomly Drug-Tested Often, Like Welfare Recipients

March 22, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 25 Comments

Gov. Rick Scott signed an executive order requiring drug testing, and compared the testing of employees to the drug-testing of welfare recipients, a proposals lawmakers also approved unanimously in a Senate committee Tuesday.

Their Battle Already Won, Flagler Beach Dog Owners Still Mobilizing to Ward Off Ban

March 22, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 24 Comments

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Flagler Beach resident Vicky Mulvaney kicked off a firestorm of opposition to her proposal to ban dogs altogether from the city’s beaches. The city commission, unlikely to go along, hears from Mulvaney and her opponents Thursday.

Get Some: Sex Ed Survey Now Open to Flagler Parents; Student Survey March 23 and 24

March 22, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

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Parents with children in school and residents without children are invited to take the Flagler school district’s sex education survey to guide school board policy. Middle and high school students take the survey March 23 and 24.

Two Burglar-Squatters Arrested Near Rymfire Drive, an ‘Accidental’ Shooting in West Flagler

March 22, 2011 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

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Lisa Touhey and Jennie McAfee had shacked up in the house on Ryan Drive after leaving jail a few days earlier. In an unrelated incident, 20-year-old Walton Kinney was shot in the stomach while wrestling a gun away from another man.

Gleeful Power Chords, an Illustrious Wasteland and Gordon Lightfoot: Culture Worth the Miles

March 22, 2011 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Gordon Lightfoot at the Plaza Theater, ‘My Illustrious Wasteland,’ the rock musical, returns to Orlando, the Glee-like Power Chords at the Orlando Repertory Theatre, the Orlando Philharmonic’ shows off its brass, and more.

Flagler Reads Together: Huckleberry Finn, Chapter 23

March 22, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

In celebration of the 10th anniversary of Flagler Reads Together, FlaglerLive is serializing Huckleberry Finn, this year’s book. Here’s Chapter 23: Sold; Royal Comparisons; Jim Gets Home-sick; With E.W. Kemble’s original illustrations.

Trailer Trap: Flagler Beach Commission Still Circling Around Changes to RV Ordinance

March 22, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Changes to the ordinance would make it difficult for some to park their RVs by their home. The city commission decided to further analyze the matter until May, when it may produce yet another version of the ordinance.

Bunnell Rededicates, and Renames, a Park to Honor Long-Time Mayor Joann B. King

March 22, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

FEMA and other grant dollars paid for the refreshed park, washed out in the rains of 2009. Joann B. King now joins her husband Herschel in having a park named after her.

3-Truck Wreck Briefly Closes Southbound I-95 Just North of Palm Coast Parkway

March 22, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

One semi was carrying a full load of lumber planks. Another was carrying huge steel beams. The crane truck was clipped from behind during the chain wreck. One driver was injured.

Abigail Lemay, NOW and ACLU Activist at Stetson, Wins National Undergraduate Social Action Award

March 22, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

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Lemay re-founded Stetson’s chapter of the National Organization for Women and the university’s American Civil Liberties Union chapter, and produced Even Ensler’s “Vagina Monologues” in 2010 and 2011 .

Hijacking Home Rule: Stiff Fines if Local Gun Regulations Exceed the State’s

March 21, 2011 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

The Senate proposal adds financial penalties of between $5,000 and $100,000 on cities and counties with stricter gun regulations than the state, and removes a longstanding shield protecting elected and appointed officials from civil lawsuits relating to their job function.

Mystery Scarring Unsolved, Malacompra Trail Policing Is Turned Over to Biking Group

March 21, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

The Malacompra mountain bike trail, for years a somewhat anarchic free-for-all recently torn up by bikers, will now, in an unusual arrangement, be policed by a mountain biking group and supervised by county authorities in cooperation with Hammock conservationists.

Autopsies To be Conducted Tuesday In Murder-Suicide; No Note Left Behind

March 21, 2011 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

The time of death has yet to be determined, and the case remains officially open, though all indications point to a murder-suicide. A .12-gauge shotgun was recovered in the Sharp home.

No Money, No Director: Flagler Youth Coalition Struggles for Survival and Identity

March 21, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Created to fight youth drug abuse, the Focus on Flagler Youth Coalition is out of money, has had no executive director since last year, and its non-profit status may be in jeopardy. Coalition board members are exploring survival options.

Florida Slush Funds, Radioactive Coulter, Corrupt Editors, Bullies and Body-Slammers: The Live Wire

March 21, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

The Australian anti-bully body-slammer talks, Ben Stiller on manchild syndrome, Ann Coulter thinks radiation is good for you, acts and pictures worse than Abu Ghraib, Willem de Kooning and more.

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