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Family of 4 In Flagler County Set to See 75% Premium Increase for Obamacare; 4 Million Floridians Will See Sharp Jump

September 13, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

obamacare premiums

Health insurance rates will increase sharply for the 4 million-plus Floridians who rely on so-called Obamacare plans or small employer health insurance coverage in the coming weeks, according to data released by the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation. For a family of four with a household income of $85,000 in Flagler County, the monthly premium for an average silver plan will rise to 1,192, from $680, a 75 percent increase.

14th of the Year: DeSantis Signs Death Warrant for Samuel Smithers, 72, Who Murdered 2 Women in 1996

September 13, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Samuel Smithers.

In what could be Florida’s 14th execution this year, Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday signed a death warrant for a man convicted of murdering two women in 1996 in Hillsborough County and dumping them in a pond. Samuel Smithers, 72, is scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection Oct. 14 at Florida State Prison for the murders of Denise Roach and Christy Cowan at a secluded property where he worked as a caretaker.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Saturday, September 13, 2025

September 13, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

In Case Of Emergency, Break Law by Ratt, PoliticalCartoons.com

Peps Art Walk near  Beachfront Grille in Flagler Beach, American Association of University Women meeting, Second Saturday Plant Sale at Washington Oaks Gardens State Park, the connection between Seal Team 6’s killing of innocent Koreans and a Jules Verne pearl diver.

America’s 250 Years of Political Violence: It’s Very Much Who We Are

September 12, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

Punishment by tar and feather of Thomas Ditson, who purchased a gun from a British soldier in Boston in March 1775.

The day after conservative activist Charlie Kirk was shot and killed while speaking at Utah Valley University, commentators repeated a familiar refrain: “This isn’t who we are as Americans.” But it is. American politics has long personalized its violence. the U.S. was founded upon – and has long been sustained by – this very form of political violence.

Poll Said to Show Democrat Jolly in Statistical Tie with Renner and Donalds

September 12, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

David Jolly was comfortable, flawless and self-assured in front of a friendly crowd. (© FlaglerLive)

The campaign for Florida Democrat David Jolly said Wednesday that a new public opinion poll it has commissioned shows the former GOP congressman in a statistical dead heat with both Byron Donalds and Paul Renner, the two major Republicans to enter the contest for governor in 2026.

Florida Cabinet Supports Revoking Free Speech Rights and Visas of Migrants Over Charlie Kirk Expressions

September 12, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Blaise Ingoglia

Chief Financial Officer Blaise Ingoglia and Attorney General James Uthmeier argue admission into the United States is a “privilege” that shouldn’t be extended to immigrants who praise Kirk’s murder, Ingoglia and an Uthmeier aide told The Florida Phoenix. This comes one day after the State Department warned immigrants against mocking or praising 31-year-old Kirk’s death.

Overflow Crowd Tells County Commission: No to Taxing District on Barrier Island, Yes to Sales Tax for Beach

September 12, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

Forty people addressed the Flagler County Commission over a 90-minute public comment segment during Thursday's hearing, which lasted three and a half hours overall. (© FlaglerLive)

In spite of near-unanimous opposition from an overflow crowd at the Flagler County Commission Thursday, the commission adopted by a 4-1 vote a controversial special taxing district covering all unincorporated property owners on the barrier island, including the Hammock, to help pay for beach protection. There was not one voice in support of the taxing district as an exclusive funding mechanism. There was not one voice opposed to a sales tax increase for that purpose, and many supported the taxing district in conjunction with the sales tax increase.

County Commission’s Kim Carney Peddles False and Misleading Claims in Opposition to Sales Tax for Beach Protection

September 12, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 19 Comments

Flagler County Commissioner Kim Carney at Thursday evening's hearing. (© FlaglerLive)

Speaking to a capacity crowd at a budget hearing Thursday evening, Flagler County Commissioner Kim Carney, who has complained of misinformation getting peddled around about county business, dispensed false and misleading information of her own on a central issue dividing the commission: the imposition of an additional sales surtax to help pay for a long-term beach-protection plan.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Friday, September 12, 2025

September 12, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Florida ends kids vaccine mandates by John Darkow, Columbia Missourian

John Darkow and a few other voices on on Florida’s anti-vaccine reversion, the Florida Ethics Commission meets and presumably resolves the Lauren Ramirez questions, the Friday Blue Forum meets.

83% of Palestinians Killed in Gaza Have Been Civilians

September 11, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Assuming they make it past the next Israeli bullet. (Wikimedia Commons)

Figures from a classified Israeli military intelligence database, reported recently by the Guardian, indicate that 83% of the Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Gaza as of May have been civilians. Israel’s own military data also now shows that Israeli officials have both overstated the number of militants they say have been killed and, by implication, the ratio of civilian to militant deaths.

Flagler County Hires Tywan Arrington as Economic Development Manager, Replacing Dolores Key

September 11, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Tywan Arrington. (Flagler County)

Flagler County has hired Tywan Arrington to serve as the county’s new economic development manager. Arrington brings years of experience in the sector with a focus on economic and international development, research development, urban planning and rural development.

Paul Renner Banks on ‘Looming Civil War’ Between DeSantis Supporters and Trump Loyalists to Win

September 11, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

House Speaker Paul Renner, whose district includes all of Flagler County, at Flagler Tiger Bay today. (© FlaglerLive)

Paul Renner expects to win the GOP nomination by taking advantage of a deepening rift between DeSantis supporters and Trump loyalists ahead of the 2026 gubernatorial race and legislative session. Renner believes he may have the “unifying” message conservative voters are looking for.

Spree of Break-Ins Target Vehicles at Multiple Properties on Flagler County’s West Side

September 11, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

Properies along and around County Road 305 and nearby county roads were the target of a spree of vehicle breaki-ns on a night in late August. The above is a file photo. (© FlaglerLive)

The Flagler County Sheriff is investigating a series of burglaries and break-ins that took place the night of Aug. 28 to 29 on the west side of Flagler County, targeting vehicles at multiple properties in an area of the county rarely associated with such crime sprees. Two firearms and wallets were among the items reported stolen. The Sheriff’s Office is not releasing the addresses. The thefts took place in the area of County Road 305, County Road 302, County Road 15, and State Road 100, targeting properties on those roads and smaller roads in between. 

Over Mayor’s Objections, Palm Coast Signals It’ll Extend Agreement with Cultural Council to Manage $100,000 in Grants

September 11, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Members of the Flagler County Cultural Council board at last May's

Overcoming numerous unsubstantiated accusations about the Flagler County Cultural Council by Mayor Mike Norris, the Palm Coast City Council on Tuesday agreed to let the volunteer organization continue administering the city’s $100,000 cultural grants program for another year. It did so in the wake of friction between the City Council and FC3, as the cultural organization refers to itself. 

Shock, Sadness, Anxiety: Flagler County Leaders Grapple with Charlie Kirk Assassination, and Worry About What’s Next

September 11, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 48 Comments

Charlie Kirk at the 2015 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland. (Wikimedia Commons)

Flagler County leaders from across a broad spectrum were reacting with shock, sadness, anxiety and concern to the assassination Wednesday of Charlie Kirk, the right-wing activist, charismatic speaker and incendiary provocateur, who was shot while doing what he did best: engage with university students while manifesting the nation’s oldest tradition of free expression. 

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Thursday, September 11, 2025

September 11, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 18 Comments

Four Departments of the Apocalypse by Dave Whamond, Canada, PoliticalCartoons.com

9/11 Tribute Climb at Hammock Beach Resort, Flagler County government tax and budget hearing, Evenings at Whitney Lecture Series return tonight, the Flagler Beach City Commission meets, Model Yacht Club Races in Central Park, replaying the Gulf of Tonkin hoax in Venezuela.

Canadians, Like Others, Are Snubbing Travel to The U.S. This Summer

September 10, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

The Canadian-US border. (Wikimedia Commons)

Global attitudes towards the United States as a tourism destination are plunging. Travel pressures, exchange rate shifts and increasing economic uncertainty have all damaged the reputation of the American travel sector. Canadian travellers are increasingly turning to domestic destinations instead of heading south. In July, Canada recorded its seventh consecutive month of declining travel by Canadians to the U.S..

55% of Floridians in Survey Oppose DeSantis Push for Congressional Redistricting

September 10, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

more gerrymandering ahead

Although Gov. Ron DeSantis says he’s intent on pursuing a mid-decade congressional redistricting that would help Republicans maintain control of the U.S. House in 2026, the majority of Floridians do not agree — and that includes a majority of Republicans. The survey of nearly 500 Floridians of all political stripes conducted by Common Cause finds that 55% oppose the idea, with only 26% in support and  another 19% undecided.

Appeals Court Ruling Against Transgender Deputy May Buttress Florida’s Restrictions on Pronouns Use

September 10, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

A sharply divided 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday against a transgender Georgia sheriff's deputy. 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals

Florida’s defense of a 2023 law restricting pronouns that transgender teachers can use to identify themselves could be aided by an appeals-court ruling Tuesday in a Georgia case. A transgender Houston County, Ga., sheriff’s deputy filed that lawsuit after she was denied coverage under a county health-insurance policy for surgery related to gender dysphoria. The sharply divided appeals court ruled against the Georgia deputy, Anna Lange. Judge Nancy Abudu, in a dissenting opinion, pointed to potentially far-reaching effects of the majority ruling, calling it discrimination against transgender people.”

“The majority opinion effectively sanctions employment discrimination against transgender people,” Abudu’s dissent said.

Palm Coast Council Isn’t Thrilled by USTA Florida’s Approach Shot to Taking Over Southern Rec Center Management

September 10, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

For the Palm Coast City Council, the picture isn’t so clear as to let USTA Florida take over management of the Southern Recreation Center, the remarkably popular city tennis and pickleball center off Belle Terre Parkway. (© FlaglerLive)

The Palm Coast City Council is not ready to hand over the Southern Recreation Center, newest of the city’s many jewels crowning its parks and recreation provinces, to USTA Florida for management over the next six years.  The city will keep talking with USTA. But the council isn’t thrilled by the cost-benefit analysis of the proposed contract, finding it too much of a one-sided benefit to USTA while the city would still lose money at the center, as it does now, only it would also lose control. The contract’s vagueness raised questions. And the council worried about the respect USTA would show pickleball.

Palm Coast Would Limit Ebike Speeds to 10 MPH on Sidewalks, Ban Riders Younger Than 13 and AirPods While Riding

September 10, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 33 Comments

palm coast ebike regulations

Palm Coast is about to have strict new ebike regulations. Based on a proposal the city attorney presented to the City Council Tuesday, and the feedback he received from council members, ebike speeds will be limited to 10 miles per hour on all sidewalks, ebike riders must be 13 or older, ebike riders younger than 16 will be required to wear a helmet, ebike riders of any age may not wear AirPods or headphones while riding, and must–also at any age–carry a sate-issued, photo identification card. 

Nudity! Sex! Literary Chimps! Lady Day! City Repertory Theatre Readies New Season With Reboots

September 10, 2025 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Nudity and sex will be taking center stage when City Repertory Theatre opens its 15th season on Sept. 19 at its black box venue in Palm Coast. More precisely, nudity and sex will be taking center stage again at City Rep, when the cutting-edge, never-hesitant-to-be provocative community theater brings back the characters Princeton and Kate Monster, and – in full (frontal) view of the audience – they proceed to engage in boisterous, noisy… well, you know. But they’re puppets.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Wednesday, September 10, 2025

September 10, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

Trump Birthday Card To Epstein by Peter Kuper, PoliticalCartoons.com

Peter Kuper on Trump’s optical allusions, River to Sea Transportation Planning Organization’s bike and pedestrian committee meets, Weekly Chess Club for Teens at the library, remembering Charles Aznavour.

Netanyahu’s ‘Cowardly’ Attack on Qatar and His Rage for Decapitation

September 9, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 17 Comments

Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu is not interested in negotiations. (Wikimedia Commons)

Israel launched an unprecedented airstrike on the Qatari capital of Doha on September 9, the first time it has directly attacked a Gulf state. The Qatari government said it “strongly condemns the cowardly Israeli attack”, which it described as “a blatant violation of international law”. The Netanyahu government has now decided that its regional objectives will be pursued through “decapitation”.

Florida Universities Get Poor Marks for Students’ Free Speech

September 9, 2025 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Students sit on blankets on Florida State University’s Landis Green on Dec. 31, 2024, with Landis Hall in the background. (Photo by Jay Waagmeester/Florida Phoenix)

Florida’s average score in the College Free Speech Rankings was 63.1 out of 100, dropping 1.1 from the year before. However, Florida’s average rank out of 257 was 74, rising 25 spots since the year before. Not all institutions in Florida were rated; FIRE queried students at six public institutions and one private, the University of Miami. Florida State University scored highest in the state at 17th nationally of 257 schools. UM was the least favorable at 229th.

Bunnell Gives Final Approval to 6,100-Home Haw Creek Development That Will Dwarf City’s 1,000 Households

September 9, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 18 Comments

The view of the Bunnell City Commission Chamber from City Manager Alvin Jackson's vantage point on the very first night of a meeting at Bunnell's new City Hall Monday. It was a capacity crowd, with many people having to stand--not because they'd turned up to mark the occasion, but to address concerns about a development that will change the face and character of the city.

What Bunnell Vice Mayor John Rogers is calling a “city within a city” with “no compatibility with the size, the character or the infrastructure” of the city will start taking shape west and south of Bunnell as a divided City Commission on Monday gave final approval to the 6,100-home development known as the Reserve at Haw Creek. As was the case two weeks ago, when the commission approved a series of regulatory steps, it did so with the same 3-2 split. Commissioners Pete Young, Dean Sechrist and Mayor Catherine Robinson voted in the majority, Rogers and Commissioner David Atkinson were opposed. 

Ft. Lauderdale Joins Miami in Challenging Transportation Department’s Erasing of Street Art and Memorials

September 9, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

What used to be the rainbow=colored crosswalk near Pulse nightclub at West Esther Street and East Orange Avenue

Days after the city of Miami Beach filed a similar case, Fort Lauderdale has challenged the legality of directives by the Florida Department of Transportation to remove art and markings on streets. Fort Lauderdale filed its challenge Monday at the state Division of Administrative Hearings, arguing that the department did not go through a legally required rule-making process. Such directives went to local governments across the state and have drawn heavy attention, in part, because they required removing LGBTQ-themed rainbow crosswalks.

Woman Described in Court Last Week as ‘a Really Bad Influence’ Is Arrested on 5 Felonies, Including Child Abuse

September 9, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Cherie Ford.

Cherie Ford, 44, was re-arrested months after being sentenced to probation on a charge of battering a cop, this time on five felony charges, including a second-degree felony charge of child neglect causing great harm and a third-degree felony charge of child abuse. The arrest was a probation violation, so she faces a felony count for that as well, and two felony battery counts–felonies, because they are her third cuch charge following convictions on similar charges. 

4 Front-Runners Emerge as Palm Coast City Council Pares Down List of City Manager Candidates

September 9, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

The Palm Coast City Council in a quieter phase. (© FlaglerLive)

Palm Coast City Council members have pared down their list of some 112 applicants for city manager to 42, with nine of those favored by at least three council members, and four of them favored by four. No candidate has so far won the backing of all five. The council this evening will short-list the pool. Mayor Mike Norris previously suggested that the council focus on candidates with at least three votes.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Tuesday, September 9, 2025

September 9, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 17 Comments

Trump at Tiananmen Square - 2025 by Christo Komarnitski, Bulgaria

The Palm Coast City Council meets in an evening workshop, the Community Traffic Safety Team meets, so does the Flagler County Planning Board, a Bulgarian view of the tariffs, on the mythology of progress.

Duke Energy Wants Florida to Prepare for Power-Hungry Data Centers

September 8, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

A data center in Michigan. (Wikimedia Commons)

With artificial intelligence and other technology driving massive increases in demand for electricity, Duke Energy Florida on Friday filed a proposal aimed at preparing for the possibility of data centers being built in the state. The proposal, filed at the Florida Public Service Commission, came as the issue is also part of a broad Florida Power & Light rate case.

Why FEMA Is Essential in Disasters

September 8, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

fema essential

To better understand FEMA’s value, let’s take a look back at how the nation responded to disasters before the agency existed–it wasn’t pretty– and what history reveals about when FEMA was most effective.

Final Beam Tops Out of Palm Coast’s Fire Station 22

September 8, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Fire Chief Kyle Berryhill addresses the audience. (Palm Coast)

A major milestone was celebrated on September 3 as the City of Palm Coast, alongside contractor Wharton-Smith and design team Schenkel Shultz, marked the topping out of Fire Station 22. The event, held at the station’s future site at Palm Coast Parkway NE and Colbert Lane, commemorated the placement of the final beam—a symbol of progress, teamwork, and a safer future for Palm Coast.

How Peter Johnson’s ‘Bullshit’ Trespass Led to Sunshine on FC3 Cultural Board and Its Accountability to Palm Coast

September 8, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

Peter Johnson's undisciplined brilliance can at times be his Achille's heel. A minor incident got him trespassed from the board he was serving on last June. But the incident led to needed reforms on other fronts. (© FlaglerLive)

The trespassing of Peter Johnson, a former candidate for mayor, underscored what had become an uneasy and contentious relationship between the Palm Coast City Council and FC3, as the Flagler County Cultural Council likes to refer to itself. Palm Coast is requiring more accountability and openness. And it led to an opinion by the county attorney’s office that FC3 should henceforth operate under sunshine, meaning that its meetings must be advertised ahead of time and be open to the public, and that its members refrain from communicating with each other on FC3 business outside of those meetings. 

Derek Barrs Resigns School Board Seat to Be Senior Advisor to Transportation Secretary Pending Confirmation

September 8, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Derek Barrs, right, with Paul Renner, the former Speaker of the House, at an event last April. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler County School Board member Derek Barrs will log his last evening board meeting on Sept. 23 and resign his seat effective Sept. 30 as he prepares to assume the leadership of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration. He will move to the nation’s capital at the end of the month and start working as a senior advisor to Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy. Once confirmed, he’ll officially move over to the motor carrier side.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Monday, September 8, 2025

September 8, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 17 Comments

clay jones on trump's health

Clay Jones on the octogenarian president’s strange and shaky health, The Bunnell City Commission meets, the Library Board of Trustees meets, the great historian William H. McNeill’s optimism.

Florida’s DOGE Should Investigate the Money Wasted on ‘Alligator Alcatraz’

September 7, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 15 Comments

A judge said the state agency building “Alligator Alcatraz’ failed to present any evidence of the required environmental studies prior to construction. Building it cost the taxpayers millions and it’s being shut down after just two months. (Photo via Florida Division of Emergency Management X account)

Gov. Ron DeSantis decided to blow millions in taxpayer money on a tent-and-fence camp in the middle of a major nature preserve. Believe it or not, he did it without doing one single thing to check its impact on our endangered panthers, our clean water, or our recovering Everglades. Instead, he just rushed to build it as fast as possible, spending $218 million. He had to truck in everything the staff and inmates needed, from portable toilets that repeatedly overflowed to blinding lights that ruined one of the few dark-sky places left in our state.

How Targeted US Hit on Caribbean Boat Was a Blatant Violation of International Law

September 7, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

The moment before an alleged drug boat was hit in a targeted U.S. strike. @realDonaldTrump/Truth Social

The U.S. government is justifying its lethal destruction of a boat suspected of transporting illegal drugs in the Caribbean as an attack on “narco-terrorists.” To an expert on international law, that line of argument goes nowhere. Even if, as the U.S. claims, the 11 people killed in the Sept. 2, 2025, U.S. Naval strike were members of the Tren de Aragua gang, it would make no difference under the laws that govern the use of force by state actors. Unlawful killing is unlawful regardless of who does it, why, or the reaction to it. And in regard to the U.S. strike on the alleged Venezuelan drug boat, the deaths were unlawful.

DC Protests Demand End to Trump’s Military ‘Occupation’

September 7, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 15 Comments

Marchers sang protest songs and led “Trump must go now” chants as they walked down 16th Street NW in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 6, 2025, during the “We Are All DC” demonstration against the deployment of National Guard troops in the nation’s capital. (Photo by Ashley Murray/States Newsroom)

Thousands marched in Washington, D.C., Saturday to protest President Donald Trump’s continued deployment of National Guard troops and the increased federal law enforcement on the streets of the nation’s capital.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Sunday, September 7, 2025

September 7, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

School vouchers go to private school students by John Cole, Tennessee | Lookout, TennesseeLookout.com

Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village, when the Southern Baptist Convention told women to submit to their husbands the day before the Wisconsin Supreme Court opened the floodgates to school vouchers and called it safe for secularism.

Canada Leading UK and France in Boycott of American Goods Over Trump Tariffs

September 6, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

United against American goods. (© FlaglerLive)

Statistics Canada reports that Canadian trips to the U.S. are down by 28.7 per cent from last year. Left-wing and right-wing people are participating in the boycott of American products. There are no ideological differences in participation in Canada and France. However, in the U.K., those on the right are more likely to boycott American products, services and travel than those on the left.

Flagler Tiger Bay Re-Elects Jay Scherr, Marc Dwyer and Joe Saviak to Leadership

September 6, 2025 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Jay Scherr at last month's Tiger Bay banquet. (© FlaglerLive)

The Flagler Tiger Bay Club, the county’s non-partisan and unique forum for ideas and discussions, Friday announced the election and re-election of the following board officers to serve four-year terms, among them Jay Scherr, Marc Dwyer and Joe Saviak.

More Than Third of Flagler County’s Renters Are Under Water as Florida Rents Increased 39% in 4 Years

September 6, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 21 Comments

An apartment complex in Orlando. (© FlaglerLive)

A University of Florida study found that rent for multifamily units in Florida rose by 39 percent between 2019 and 2023, as 1 million households entered the state. In Flagler County, 4,478 renting households out of 12,000 total renting households–or 37 percent–are in that category. Among the most low-income, cost-burdened renting households in the county, 72 percent are occupied by one or two people. The majority are younger than 54.

Flagler Sheriff’s Detective Kathryn Gordon and Flagler Beach Officer Michael Snyder Are Crime Stoppers’ Officers of the Year

September 6, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

From left, Flagler County Sheriff Rick Staly, Master Detective Kathryn Gordon, Flagler Beach Police Officer Michael Snyder, and Flagler Beach Police Chief Matt Doughney. (CrimeStoppers)

The Flagler County Sheriff’s Master Detective Kathryn Gordon was named Crime Stoppers of Northeast Florida’s 2025 Officer of the Year in the large agency category. Gordon was selected as Officer of the Year among law enforcement agencies with over 125 sworn members, among nominees from four other agencies across Putnam, St. Johns, and Volusia counties.

Ex-School Employee Kermit Booth Extradited to Flagler to Face Charges of of Sexually Assaulting Neighbor Until She Was 9

September 6, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

Sheriff Rick Staly reading Kermit Booth his warrant. (FCSO)

Flagler County Sheriff Rick Staly on Friday flew to North Carolina to personally bring back Kermit Booth–the former Palm Coast resident facing two capital felony charges for the sexual assault of a child–extradited from North Carolina, where he’d been held after his second arrest on the same charges.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Saturday, September 6, 2025

September 6, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

Fact Checker by Harley Schwadron, CagleCartoons.com

It’s Casino Night at the Flagler Woman’s Club, the Flagler Beach All Stars hold their monthly beach clean-up, where medieval scribes and today’s fact-averse ideologues join hands, fact-checking Ronald Reagan.

How AI Is About to Change Military Command Structures

September 5, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

This U.S. Army command post, seen from a drone, is loaded with modern technology but uses a centuries-old structure.

Despite two centuries of evolution, the structure of a modern military staff would be recognizable to Napoleon. At the same time, military organizations have struggled to incorporate new technologies as they adapt to new domains – air, space and information – in modern war. AI agents – autonomous, goal-oriented software powered by large language models – can automate routine staff tasks, compress decision timelines and enable smaller, more resilient command posts. They can shrink the staff while also making it more effective.

He Faced a Minimum of 4.2 Years in Prison for Hit and Run. He Got Less Than 1 Year in Jail After Paying Victim $150,000.

September 5, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

A $150,000 settlement paired with a $100,000 insurance settlement can go a long way to convince the victim of a hit and run to turn advocate for his assailant and ask the court not to send him to prison. The prosecutor put it more bluntly: “It creates the perception that justice can be bought.” That’s what appears to have happened between Joao Fernandes and Tristen Thompson, who until last month had spent the previous year as adversaries, with Fernandes facing several years in prison on top of a civil suit from Thompson over a 2024 hit and run on Belle Terre Parkway that left Thompson in a heap of injuries.

Shuttered Baker County Prison Reopened as Migrant Lockup

September 5, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Inspiring? (Florida prisons)

Florida this week began accepting immigrant detainees at a repurposed prison in Baker County as part of the state’s support of President Donald Trump’s mass-deportation efforts, according to Gov. Ron DeSantis’ office.

Armed Burglar Wrecks Sharps Liquors in Flagler Plaza After Being Denied Drinks, and Faces Life Felonies

September 5, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

The wreckages left behind at Sharps Discount Liquors in Palm Coast by Jeffrey Kimmel, according to the Flagler County Sheriff's Office, which released these images.

A 38-year-old man whose recorded behavior at the time of his arrest suggests questionable mental competence is at the Flagler County jail on 12 felony charges, two of them punishable by life in prison, following an alleged armed burglary and a trashing rampage through Sharps Discount Liquors in Palm Coast. He is being held on $236,000 bond. The trashing left the area behind the counter entirely covered in broken bottles shoved off the shelves, along with a whole other segment of the store where the man had systematically upended, broken or wrecked everything in his way.

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