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Arrested for Driving School Bus Severely Drunk, He’s Back in Jail for Showing Up to Court Drunk

June 14, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

Mark McNeill in court on Monday. (Zoom via Wesh 2 News)

Mark McNeill, 60, was arrested in February for driving severely drunk with 40 Buddy Taylor Middle School students aboard. He appeared before a judge on Monday for a plea deal. He was drunk. The judge sent him back to jail. The plea deal is in doubt.

Larry Cavallaro, 75, Says He’s Guilty of Raping Flagler Woman, But Evades Prison Time in Plea

June 13, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 18 Comments

Larry Cavallaro, left, in court this afternoon with his attorney, Warren Lindsey. (© FlaglerLive via zoom)

Larry Cavallaro, 75, a former gallery owner in Flagler Beach, pleaded guilty today to raping a woman at his home in Beverly Beach in December 2017, but was sentenced only to two years’ house arrest and eight years of sex offender probation.

Flagler Pride: Local LGBTQ+ Community Celebrates Itself, with Activism, Avowals and 2 Mayors

June 13, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

Flagler Pride, like dozens of other such events around the country typically held in June, found the local LGBTQ+ community – with the support of family, friends and allies -- celebrating itself. The festival featured a carnival-like atmosphere with musicians, comedians and a belly dancer performing before the 500-plus attendees (who were counted by festival staff).

The third annual Flagler Pride weekend held at Palm Coast’s Town Center and in Flagler Beach this weekend drew some 500 participants, featured musicians, comedians and a belly dancer on Saturday, a vigil on Sunday, and two mayors along the way–Palm Coast’s David Alfin and Flagler Beach’s Suzie Johnston–reflecting Flagler Pride’s growing local imprint and embrace.

Armed Car Jacker Who Stole Pick-Up in Daytona Beach Is Chased in P-Section, and Apprehended

June 13, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

The search for an alleged c ar-jacker focused on a quadrant immediately northeast of the area of Point Pleasant Drive and Royal Palms Parkway, where the man was apprehended early this morning. Early morning traffic, above, was as brisk as usual even within 45 minutes of an AlertFlagler notice about the armed car-jacker in the neighborhood. (© FlaglerLive)

An alleged car-jacker who’d stolen a work truck in Daytona Beach before dawn was apprehended after a two-hour search in Palm Coast’s P-Section, including the assistance of an emergency helicopter.

Prison ‘Gain Time’ Case Roils Court as Sexual Offender Is Deemed Eligible for Early Release

June 10, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

Rejecting longstanding legal precedent, a state appeals court said Friday that a man convicted of attempted sexual battery on a child is eligible to be considered for early release from prison.

In Major Shake-Up, Bossardet Is New FPC Principal, Peacock to Wadsworth, LaShakia Moore is Deputy Superintendent

June 10, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Bobby Bossardet, left, is the new principal at Flagler Palm Coast High School, and LaShakia Moore is the new assistant superintendent for instruction. (© FlaglerLive and Flagler Schools)

The district insisted the two former assistant superintendents, Bobby Bossardet and Paul Peacock, were not being demoted back to principalships, a claim that was far more credible regarding Bossardet taking over FPC than it was about Peacock, who is taking over Wadsworth Elementary School and whose tenure at the district had been problematic.

For Emma Stanford, an Odyssey on Behalf of K-9s Leads to Bill-Signing in Bunnell With Gov. DeSantis

June 10, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

Gov. Ron deSantis turns to Emma Stanford, who is between Sen. Travis Hutson and Sheriff Rick Staly, at the bill signing this morning at the Flagler County Courthouse. Rep. Ki (© Emma Stanford for FlaglerLive)

Emma Stanford, 14, a Flagler County resident, has been advocating and fund-raising for local sheriff’s K-9 units for years. Today, she stood alongside Gov. Ron DeSantis at the signing of a bill at the Flagler County courthouse that will ensure the payment of medical expenses for retired K9s across the state.

Flagler Beach Kills Fireworks on July 4 Over Dissatisfaction With Vendor and Contract Changes

June 10, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 24 Comments

The Flagler Beach City Commission Thursday evening killed this year's July 4 fireworks, which means it'll be the third year in a row that the pier will be dark the night of Independence Day. (© FlaglerLive)

The Flagler Beach City Commission Thursday evening finally and irrevocably killed this year’s July 4 fireworks after further dissatisfaction with both the fireworks vendor and the administration’s handling of the matter, which means it’ll be the third year in a row that the pier will be dark the night of Independence Day.

In Flagler, Red-Flag Law and Therapy Dogs Begin to Impact Response to Domestic Violence and Other Crimes

June 9, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Dottie, one of the Flagler County Sheriff's Office's three therapy dogs, was among the stars of the latest Domestic Violence Summit today at the Hilton Garden Inn in Palm Coast. Dottie is soon to retire. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler County Sheriff Rick Staly hosted the latest domestic violence summit today at the Hilton garden Inn, where much of the discussion centered on changes that have taken place since 2016, and more especially since 2018: how the so-called red-flag law now plays a role in the gravest domestic violence cases, and how therapy dogs can be the difference between a witness cooperating, or opening up, and not. 

DeSantis Scraps Another Cabinet Meeting, Canceling State Business; Fried Calls It ‘Insult’ to Floridians

June 9, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

Agriculture and Consumer Affairs Secretary Nikki Fried, at right, challenged Gov. Ron DeSantis during a Florida Cabinet meeting on June 15, 2021. (Screenshot/Florida Channel)

Gov. Ron DeSantis has cancelled a meeting of the Florida Cabinet again, prompting complaints from Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Nikki Fried that the governor is evading oversight under Florida’s unique executive branch mechanism.

Flagler Beach Mayor Declines to Sign Fireworks Contract, Citing Unapproved Cost and Shorter Show

June 9, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 16 Comments

Flagler Beach Mayor Suzie Johnston is waiting until tonight's meeting of the city commission before signing a contract with a fireworks producer. Johnston has been displeased with the changes in the contract that the commission had not approved. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler Beach Mayor Suzie Johnston said she is not signing the city’s fireworks contract with a pyrotechnics producer, at least not until the city commission reviews them, because the commission had not approved the extra $1,000 cost and a diminution of the show’s length to 17 minutes, from 20. it is is yet another delay from yet another unexpected twist in what has been a drudging effort to secure a July 4 fireworks for the city.

A 45-Year-Old Woman Is Killed in 2-Vehicle Crash at U.S. 1 and Whiteview Parkway

June 9, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 26 Comments

A 45-year-old woman driving the Jeep, which was t-boned by a pick-up truck, died at the hospiotal within the hour of the crash Wednesday evening at Whiteview Parkway and U.S. 1. (Palm Coast Fire Department)

A 45-year-old Palm Coast woman was killed Wednesday evening in a t-bone crash at the intersection of U.S. 1 and Whiteview Parkway. The crash resulted in the 16th fatality of the year on Flagler roads.

Anti-Alabama Slurs Aside, Palm Coast Council Clears 251-Apartment Complex in Town Center

June 8, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 18 Comments

A rendering of the central building, among five, in the Wilton apartment complex planned for Town center in palm Coast. That large building will have 201 of the planned 251 apartments. (Crest)

The Palm Coast City Council on a 4-1 vote approved the 251-unit Wilton apartment complex off Brookhaven Drive, but not before Council member Eddie Branquinho repeatedly took on the project’s Alabama-based investors, asking openly whether the council was “on the side of Alabama” or on that of Palm Coast residents.

The Live Profile | Raise High the Roof Beam: Kyle Berryhill Is Palm Coast’s New Fire Chief

June 8, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Palm Coast Fire Chief-Designee Kyle Berryhill. (© FlaglerLive)

Kyle Berryhill, 42, was named Palm Coast’s next fire chief when Jerry Forte officially retires on Oct. 14, though Berryhill has been gradually taking the reins for months. It is the culmination of a career that started in 2005 with his first job as a firefighter-EMT in Palm Coast, and that’s been defined by a combination of command and humility both as a union leader and a manager.

District Readied to Open Summer School Without Deputies. Sheriff ‘Wasn’t Going to Tolerate It.’

June 7, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 34 Comments

Sheriff Rick Staly said the Flagler district prepared to open summer school at Rymfire Elementary with 350 students and no deputy requested. Livid at the possibility in light of the most recent school shooting, he ordered that a school resource deputy be dispatched to the school regardless, and told the district he’d be billing it regardless. The district has since conceded the point.

How Mud Muckers in West Flagler Bogged Down in Its Own Lawsuit and Wetlands Violations, and Lost

June 7, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

The old Mud Muckers office in 2012. (© FlaglerLive)

Mud Muckers for many years operated as a huge ATV park southwest of Bunnell, until it was found to be violating wetlands rules and required to move. Mud Muckers sued its landlord, and today lost its final appeal, four years after it said–inaccurately–that it had been unceremoniously shut down.

The Gardens, Now Veranda Bay, Clears Last Hurdle Before Construction of First 56 of 334 Homes

June 6, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

Ken Belshe, developer of Veranda Bay. (© FlaglerLive)

After innumerable public, regulatory and legal hurdles, including a lawsuit, Veranda Bay today won with another key vote from the Flagler County Commission–an almost-routine 5-0 vote this time approving the final plat for the first 56 lots of a development that’ll eventually number 334 homes.

Judge Won’t Revoke or Reduce $500,000 Bond on 16-Year-old Damari Barnes After Jail Incident

June 6, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

Damari Barnes is being held on $500,000 bond in the shooting death of 19-year-old Jamey Bennett. The prosecution wanted his bond revoked following an jail incident in which Barnes allegedly attacked another inmate and forced him to drink urine. The defense wanted the bond reduced to $100,000, so Barnes could go home. The judge denied both.

U.S. Supreme Court Sides With Florida Government Agency Against Family in Medicaid Dispute

June 6, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

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Justices, in a 7-2 opinion, sided with the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration in a case that drew attention from officials across the country. They ruled that the agency could claim $300,000 of an $800,000 settlement a company paid a family after a 13-year-old girl was permanently injured bya company truck.

Trial Diary: A Journalist Sits on a Baltimore Jury

June 5, 2022 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

A jury room at the Flagler County courthouse. (© FlaglerLive)

Could 12 strangers agree on justice in Baltimore, a city riddled with killings and distrust of the police, in a shooting case where the victim was an actor on the legendary drama “The Wire”?

‘Our Democracy Is At Risk’: FPC’s Jack Petocz’s Winning Essay in ACLU Contest

June 4, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 72 Comments

Jack Petocz will be a senior at Flagler Palm Coast High School this fall. c(© FlaglerLive)

Jack Petocz, who will be a senior at Flagler Palm Coast High School next fall, won First Place in the ACLU of Florida Volusia/Flagler Chapter’s first Annual “Cary Ragsdale Future Voter’s Essay Contest.” The award carries a $500 prize underwritten by FlaglerLive, and publication of the essay here.

Florida’s Relatively New Red-Flag Law Emerging as Model for Other States in Gun Debate

June 3, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri says a Florida red-flag law has prevented harm. (NSF)

As a national debate rages over gun laws after last month’s mass shooting at a Texas elementary school, proponents of “red-flag” policies point to a Florida law as a model for states seeking to strip deadly weapons from people who could cause harm.

Mask-Up Again: Covid Patients Up to 13 at Hospital, Flagler Positivity Rate Above 21% as Cases Rise

June 3, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 17 Comments

Time to put it back on again? (Ashkan Forouzani on Unsplash)

Covid cases have increased for the 10th straight week in Florida, to just under 72,000 as of May 27, and have also increased in Flagler County, to 270 this week, up from 219 the week before, according to the Flagler County Health Department. The county’s positivity rate was 21.3 percent. Flagler is averaging 26 new cases per day. But there are glimmers that the surge is leveling off.

Bunnell’s Long-Awaited Commerce Parkway Survives Veto, as Does Barrier Island Sewer Project, But Not Ag Museum

June 2, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

That was 11 years ago, at the groundbreaking of Commerce Park and the new Wendy's at the corner of Commerce Parkway and State Road 100, when Bunnell officials were still dreaming of Commerce Parkway becoming a bypass around Bunnell, to U.S. 1. The project now appears a go. Gov. Ron DeSantis did not veto a $6 million allocation for it. (© FlaglerLive)

Gov. Ron DeSantis issued $3.13 billion in vetoes Thursday as he signed a record $109.9 billion budget for the fiscal year that will begin July 1. For Bunnell, the $6.8 million allocated for long-awaited Commerce Parkway survived, as did an $8 million allocation for the barrier island’s septic-to-sewer project.

Travis Smith, Convicted in Lyft Driver Attack, Wants a New Trial and to Be Let Out of Jail

June 2, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

Travis Smith testifying last week. (© FlaglerLive)

Travis Smith, the 38-year-old Palm Coast resident convicted of battery by a jury last week for attacking a Lyft driver, has filed for a new trial. Smith is challenging the jury’s findings. He has also filed a motion to get out of jail, challenging the judge’s decision to revoke his $5,000 bond immediately after the May 25 verdict.

Yet Another Felony Charge for Moultrie as He Awaits Trials on Rape and Murder Accusations

June 2, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Kwentel Moultrie in court six weeks ago. (© FlaglerLive)

Kwentel Moultrie was charged with assaulting another inmate, adding a third-degree felony to a rap sheet that also includes a first-degree felony rape charge and a life-felony murder charge from separate incidents.

Florida Healthcare Providers Sue the State Over 15-Week Abortion Law that Starts July 1

June 1, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

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The law has caused an upset among reproductive rights activists, and the lawsuit claims that HB 5, the piece of legislation that was approved this spring by the Legislature, violates protections under the Florida Constitution.

‘Shocking’ Ages: 4 Children, Youngest 12, Arrested on Felony Theft and Burglary After Joyride

June 1, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 57 Comments

Danielle, 15, emerges from the car that had been stolen from a Cooper Lane driveway around midday Wednesday in a still from body camera footage released by the Sheriff's Office.

Four Palm Coast children–12, 14, 15 and 17–with the 15 year old at the wheel, were arrested at gunpoint after allegedly stealing a Palm Coast resident’s car and joyriding through Flagler Beach and Palm Coast.

“Be Prepared to Be Off the Grid”: Flagler Emergency Management Chief Decodes Hurricane Season

June 1, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

Flagler County Emergency Management Chief Jonathan Lord discussing the 2022 hurrricane season, which began today, as a tropical system that may turn into the season's first named storm loomed over the Guld of Mexico. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler County Emergency Management Chief Jonathan Lord today prefaced the 2022 hurricane season, with 14 to 21 storms predicted, six to 10 of them expected to become hurricanes. There are some worrisome weather factors in play, but also improvements in preparation and infrastructure.

U.S. Supreme Court Blocks Florida-Like Texas Law Limiting Content Moderation by Social Media

June 1, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

The Supreme Court responds to immoderate laws. (Gian Cescon on Unsplash)

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday blocked a Texas law similar to one in Florida that prohibits large social media companies, such as Facebook or Twitter, from banning or removing users’ posts based on political viewpoints. A three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals last week ruled that Florida’s law unconstitutionally restricts free speech.

Person Killed in T-Bone Crash at Cody’s Corner, Where DOT Renounced Building Roundabout

May 31, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 45 Comments

The Excursion. (© FlaglerLive)

A 32-year-old woman was killed in a two-vehicle, t-bone crash at the intersection of State Road 11 and County Road 304, also known as Cody’s Corner, south of Bunnell this afternoon.

Flagler 3rd Graders’ Reading Scores Fall Again, to Lowest Level in 7 Years, Yet Rank 12th in State

May 31, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 15 Comments

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The percentage of Flagler County 3rd graders achieving a reading level of 3 (out of 5) or above–that is, reading at a satisfactory level–fell to 58 percent, the lowest level in at least seven years of comparable testing results, and down from last year’s 59 percent. Scores had peaked at 69 percent in 2017 and 68 percent in 2019, the year before the pandemic.

Another Unprovoked Attack at a Local Business Lands 35-Year-Old Palm Coast Man in Jail

May 31, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 20 Comments

Dustin M. Patrick.

Dustin M. Patrick, a 35-year-old resident of Breeze Hill Lane in Palm Coast, was booked at the Flagler County jail on a felony child abuse charge after allegedly attacking a teen employee Friday at Red Crab in Palm Coast. It was the second unprovoked attack by a stranger against another in six days at different Palm Coast businesses, in front of others.

Measure Up to What Vets Fought For: A Call to Flagler’s Community and State Leaders

May 30, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

At the Normandy American Cemetery Museum in Coville-sur-Mer, France. (© FlaglerLive)

It is time county commissioners, governors and legislators exhibited some plain common sense, balancing serious gun-safety regulations with responsible gun ownership. The politicians who let the carnage continue are the cowards for not taking action.

Our National Pathology Over Guns Is Inhuman

May 29, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

(Emad Hajjaj, Alaraby Aljadeed newspaper , London)

Insanity, as has been famously remarked, is doing the same thing over and over again, and hoping for a different result. And that is the story of our lawmakers’ ongoing inability to pass even the simplest of gun violence reduction measures. And, then, under our very noses, we’re hit with another Sandy Hook.

Cancel Student Debt and Bail Out Ordinary People for a Change

May 28, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 36 Comments

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Donald Trump and the Republican Party passed a $1.9 trillion, high-end tax cut in 2017 that’s been called “socialism for the rich.” It led to billionaires paying a lower average tax rate than the working class for the first time in U.S. history. That sounds a lot more radical than helping regular people, Robert P. Alvarez argues.

DeSantis Appoints Ex-Education Commissioner Corcoran to University System’s Board of Governors

May 28, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

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The Board of Governors oversees Florida’s 12 state universities and is tasked with such responsibilities as adopting regulations designed to carry out state laws related to higher education. Corcoran, a former Republican House speaker, served three years as the state’s top education official overseeing Florida’s public-school and college systems.

5th District’s Judge Meredith Sasso Among Applicants to Florida Supreme Court Vacancy

May 27, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Judge Meredith Sasso of the Sixth District Court of Appeal. (5th District)

After reshaping the Florida Supreme Court to reflect his legal and political ideology, Gov. Ron DeSantis is poised to pick a new justice who will give him four appointees on the state’s highest court. Judge Sasso is a member of the American Enterprise Institute Leadership Network and the ultra-conservative Federalist Society, whose faculty advisors included Robert Bork and Antonin Scalia.

Flagler Beach Commissioner Has ‘Zero Confidence’ July 4 Will Be Pulled Off as Planning Drags

May 27, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

Flagler Beach City Manager William Whitson had to answer uncomfortable questions about July 4 plans at Thursday's Flagler Beach City Commission meeting. (© FlaglerLive)

As the Flagler Beach city manager is giving a fireworks producer until just 24 days before July 4 fireworks to sign a contract, City Commissioner Eric Cooley said he had no confidence that the fireworks or other preparatory plans for Independence Day could be pulled off safely, absent more detailed information.

Apparently Unprovoked, Palm Coast Man Throws Coffee and a Punch at 76-Year-Old Customer

May 27, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 23 Comments

Sean Ruel, 39, seen about to punch a 76-year-old man outside a convenience store in Palm Coast on May 22 in a still from surveillance camera footage released by the Sheriff's Office. (© FlaglerLive via YouTube)

Flagler county Sheriff’s deputies arrested Sean Michael Ruel, a 39-year-old Palm Coast man, for what appears to be a brazen, unprovoked attack on a 76-year-old man at a convenience store four days before.

Stand-Off With Armed Individual Ends Near 8-Hour Mark With Arrest

May 27, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

Mark Francioni in a booking photo at the Volusia County Branch Jail in 2018, when he was arrested on drug charges.

What started as a potential domestic violence situation at 6 Welling Place in Palm Coast in mid-afternoon today turned into a nearly 8-hour stand-off between 51-year-old Mark Francioni, who had barricaded himself in his house, with firearms, and the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office’s Crisis Negotiating Team.

2.2 Million Floridians Expected on the Roads This Weekend Despite Record High Gas Prices

May 27, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Americans are taking to the roads with a vengeance this Memorial Day weekend despite record high gas prices in Florida and many parts of the country. (© FlaglerLive)

More than 39 million people are expected to travel 50 miles or more across the country this Memorial Day weekend, including 2.2 million Floridians–10 percent of the state’s population–even as gas prices hit a new record of $4.58 a gallon in the state on Thursday.

From One Massacre to Another: Friday Vigil in Veterans Park Will Mark Mass Murders in Uvalde and Buffalo

May 26, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Marchers heading to a vigil at veterans P{ark in Flagler Beach in March 2018, after the massacre at the high school in Parkland. A vigil is planned Friday, after the massacres in Buffalo and (© FlaglerLive)

A vigil in memory of the 31 victims of the Buffalo and Uvalde mass-shooting victims is scheduled for at 8 p.m. Friday, May 27, at Veterans Park in Flagler Beach. The vigil will have no speeches. Participants are encouraged to bring candles or lighters. A bell or a gong will be rung 31 times.

Provider Still Hasn’t Signed Flagler Beach Fireworks Contract or Shown Insurance. City Chief ‘Not Yet’ Worried.

May 26, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

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Less than six weeks from July 4, and two weeks after the Flagler Beach City Commission voted to approve a $24,000 contract with Ryan Allen to set off Independence Day fireworks, the contract is still not signed, Allen has still not provided proof of insurance, and the city has therefore not issued a deposit check.

Travis Smith Found Guilty of Battery In Lyft Driver Attack, But Acquitted Of Felony Charge

May 25, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

Travis S. Smith testifying before the jury today. (© FlaglerLive)

Travis Schriever Smith, the 38-year-old Palm Coast resident who assaulted a Lyft driver in an unprovoked and drunken attack in the early days of the pandemic, was found guilty of battery, a misdemeanor, but not guilty of burglary at the end of a three-day trial in Circuit Court in Bunnell this evening.

In Response to Texas School Massacre, Biden Calls for More Gun Regulations, Florida GOP for Prayers

May 25, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 29 Comments

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In the wake of the latest mass shooting at a school, President Biden called for tougher gun controls and for Americans to stand up to powerful gun lobbyists. Florida’s GOP leaders maintained opposition to gun restrictions and offered prayers.

Two Jacksonville Motorcyclist, 22 and 29, Are Killed on I-95 at Old Kings Road Overpass

May 25, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 21 Comments

The 22-year-old victim, a competitive racer, posing with her motorcycle in a self-portrait she posted on Facebook in December.

A group of four Jacksonville motorcyclists who had been at a bike meet in Palm Coast crashed on I-95 near the Old Kings Road overpass as they were riding home Tuesday evening. They were each on his or her own motorcycle. All four were ejected. Two of the four riders were killed.

In Trial of Lyft Driver’s Attacker, Dramatic Moments for Prosecution Yield to Lapses by Alleged Victim

May 24, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Travis Smith, flanked by his two attorneys, watches himself in footage of his attack on Nihat Aksezer at the aborted end of a Lyft ride Aksezer was giving Smith, his friend and his friend's son in Palm Coast two years ago. Smith is on trial over that attack. (© FlaglerLive)

The prosecution and defense traded successes today in the trial of Travis Smith, the 38-year-old Palm Coast resident accused of violently attacking a 49-year-old Palm Coast Lyft driver unprovoked and spitting on him during Covid’s early days in 2020. Smith faces from 21 months to 17 years in prison if convicted.

DeSantis Veto of Modest Bankruptcy Relief Will Hurt Stressed Floridian Families That Need It Most

May 24, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

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The bill would have afforded a measure of relief for Floridians already beset by bankruptcy, by giving them a little credit for equity in their primary vehicle. DeSantis voted no, claiming, ridiculously, that it would “incentivize” people to file for bankruptcy. But no one wants to file personal bankruptcy.

At His Sentencing, Another Aggrieved Weeks Duels With a Judge: ‘This Isn’t Going to Work For Me’

May 24, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Duane Weeks in court Monday, immediately after his sentencing. (© FlaglerLive)

Duane Weeks Jr., son of ex-Elections Supervisor Kim Weeks and a repeat offender, was sentenced to prison Monday but took on his plea deal and the judge over a no-contact order with his victim, once he’s released from prison.

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