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Milissa Holland’s Daughter Responds to Danko’s Fabrications: Stop Bringing My Family Into This Immaturity

July 20, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 35 Comments

Tori Holman at her mother's swearing-in as mayor on Nov. 15, 2016, three years before her liver transplant but well into her illness. (© FlaglerLive)

“I am 25 years old and the amount of immaturity displayed in this campaign is embarrassing,” writes Tori Holman, former Mayor Milissa Holland’s daughter. “To Mr. Danko and his detractors, Stop bringing my family into this mess to try to boost your votes. Stop bringing my family into this at all. To the rest of you, thank you.”

Palm Coast at a Crossroad: Assassins of Civility or Governance

July 19, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 28 Comments

Ed Danko and Victor Barbosa since their election have turned the Palm Coast council into an embarrassment. The two are vying for a third vote in Alan Lowe and the mayor’s seat. That potential majority risks turning the city into a mirror of the toxic trio.

Palm Coast Council Defers Decision on Commercial Vehicles in Driveways to Next Mayor, Who’ll Break Deadlock

July 19, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 17 Comments

Commercial vehicles with signage exceeding a certain size are not allowed to park in residential Palm Coast driveways unless they're on a work call. (Palm Coast)

The Palm Coast City Council is split 2-2 on allowing commercial vehicles to park in driveways uncovered, in what has turned into one of the more contentious code enforcement matters on the council’s agenda. Council members Ed Danko and Victor Barbosa want the rule relaxed, Mayor Eddie Branquinho and Council member Nick Klufas are opposed.

Former Florida Chief Justice Kogan: Why Florida Should Abolish the Death Penalty

July 19, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

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In a compelling new interview conducted by attorney and filmmaker Ted Corless, the late Florida Supreme Court Chief Justice Gerald Kogan lists the numerous reasons why he believed Florida’s death penalty should be abolished.

Flagler’s Unemployment Rate Jumps a Full Percentage Point, to 6%, as Florida’s Only Ticks Up by Decimal

July 19, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Click on the graph for larger view. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler County’s unemployment rate jumped by a full percentage point in June, to 6 percent, from a revised 5 percent in May, reaching its highest level since August 2020. The rise appears to be a direct result of an economy unable to keep up with the return of people to the workforce.

For Palm Coast Little League, Years of Advocacy Culminate with Hosting State Championship, and a DeSantis 1st Pitch

July 18, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

Emily Warren and Sadie Schnell with Gov. DeSantis after catching the first pitches. (© FlaglerLive)

Palm Coast Little League this weekend marked its 20th anniversary by hosting the state championship, featuring a first pitch by Gov. Ron DeSantis. Hosting the tournament is a remarkable turn-around from a time a decade ago when Little League and the city were at loggerheads. The relationship turned around several years ago, and has flourished since, culminating with the championship event.

Danko-Lowe Campaign Fabrications: Governor’s Office Refutes Incendiary Claims About Holland “Criminal Charges”

July 16, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 45 Comments

Ed Danko, the Palm Coast City Council member, in the foreground, has been campaigning on behalf of Alan Lowe, left, and advising or managing his campaign--a campaign using false and misleading accusations as a talking point. (© FlaglerLive)

Ed Danko, the Palm Coast City Council member working on behalf of Alan Lowe to get him elected mayor, has been making misleading or baseless statements, including outright lies, and leveling false and potentially defamatory accusations about former Mayor Milissa Holland, her ailing daughter and to some extent former City Manager Matt Morton, a FlaglerLive investigation found. 

End of an Era: Flagler Beach Might Let Palm Coast Take Over July 4 Fireworks and Shift Its Own to New Year’s Eve

July 16, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 63 Comments

The July 4 fireworks off the Flagler Beach pier have been as iconic, on Independence Day, as the pier itself all 364 other days of the year. (© FlaglerLive)

The Flagler Beach City Commission has agreed to an explosive idea–explosive in the best sense and, potentially, in the worst sense: ending the July 4 fireworks, the single-most recognizable and beloved tradition associated with Flagler Beach. Instead, the city will shift its fireworks to New Year’s Eve as a way of helping business in slow winter months.

A Qualified Defense of Trump Supporters’ Obscenities in Flagler Beach

July 16, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 56 Comments

The mastodon truck now bearing much more offensive signs, when it was a bit more po9lite last November, parked at one of its favorite spots: Veterans Park in Flagler Beach. (© FlaglerLive)

Obscene pro-Trump demonstrators’ signs now flashing regularly in Flagler Beach are no different than signs using similar language at BLM marches. The fact that BLM marches have justice on their side, as Trump demonstrators do not, does not diminish the goons’ First Amendment rights.

Citing History, Gov. DeSantis Urges Cuban Military to Overthrow Its Government

July 16, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 18 Comments

Cubans at a crossroad. (MissChampers/Flicker)

Gov. Ron DeSantis told young members of Cuba’s military to “live in the history books” by overthrowing their nation’s communist leadership, as he pushed President Joe Biden to bring Wi-Fi access back to people protesting on the island nation.

Delta Variant Attacks Vaccineless in Flagler and Florida as Covid Cases and Hospitalizations Shape into 4th Wave

July 15, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 50 Comments

Flagler County's weekly positive covid caseload has been on the rise again as the Delta variant affects more people, most of them unvaccinated. Click on the graph for larger view. (© FlaglerLive)

Covid-19’s extremely infectious Delta variant is zeroing in on those without vaccines, who make up the entirety of the 430 hospitalizations in Central Florida’s AdventHealth hospitals alone. The proportion of those vaccinated in Flagler and Florida remains below 50 percent.

FPC’s Shauntiana Stafford, 17, Killed Herself in 2019. Her Mother is Suing Flagler Schools, Charging Wrongful Death

July 15, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 14 Comments

Shauntiana Autrice Stafford was a student at Flagler Palm Coast High School. She was 17. (Facebook)

Seemingly the first such lawsuit in recent decades in Flagler, the case opens a rare window into bullying issues behind normally restrictive student privacy laws, potentially revealing in detail the psychological and mental context of a student in the weeks and months leading up to her death, her relationship with school staffers, and the district’s responses in all its intricacies.

Their Boat Sank in Minutes 10 Miles Offshore of Flagler Beach: How 4 Men and 2 Boys Kept Their Cool Until Rescued

July 14, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 15 Comments

They floated for 15 to 20 minutes before another fishing boat spotted them. The sixth member of the group is in the water, not visible. (Jason Arnett)

A group of six Palm Coast boaters off on a snapper fishing trip Saturday (July 10) rapidly sank two hours into their trip, 10 miles offshore. Quick action, level heads and a series of fortunate events led to their rescue by another fishing boat, then the Coast Guard. here’s their story.

Palm Coast’s Joseph Carroll, 42, Indicted on 1st Degree Murder in Overdose Death of Michael Burnett Jr.

July 14, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Joseph Carroll, 42, and Allyson Bennett, 39, are accused of selling the drugs that killed Michael Burnett Jr. in 2018. Bennett this week pleaded to manslaughter, and faces up to 15 years in prison. Carroll was indicted on the first-degree murder charge, a capital felony, on Tuesday.

Michael Burnett Jr. was 31 when he overdosed on drugs allegedly sold to him by Joseph Carroll, 42, and Allyson Bennett, 39, in 2018. Bennett this week pleaded to manslaughter, and faces up to 15 years in prison. Carroll was indicted on the first-degree murder charge, a capital felony, on Tuesday.

State Board of Education Considers Overhaul of School Standards, Including Civics and U.S. ‘Exceptionalism’

July 13, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

If approved by the Board of Education on Wednesday, the new standards likely won’t show up in classrooms until the 2023-24 academic year, according to Education Chancellor Jacob Oliva. (© FlaglerLive)

Florida’s State Board of Education on Wednesday will consider adopting a wide-ranging overhaul of curriculum standards across multiple subjects in public schools, including guidelines for teaching civics and government courses and Holocaust education.

Flagler Free Clinic Receives $75,000 Donation, Largest-Ever Gift, as AdventHealth Auxiliary Sunsets

July 13, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Tom Sisti of the AdventHealth Auxiliary gifting the Free Clinic the big check. (© FlaglerLive)

The non-profit Flagler Free Clinic has been providing poorer residents free healthcare since 2005. Friday the clinic received its biggest donation ever, from the AdventHealth Palm Coast Auxiliary. 

‘It’s News to Me,’ Barbosa Tells Council of His Alleged Fugitive Status, Before Meeting Tips Into Brawl Again

July 13, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 32 Comments

Victor Barbosa. (© FlaglerLive via Palm Coast TV)

The Palm Coast City Council’s five-hour workshop today had its share of tense moments before devolving again into a verbal brawl as Victor Barbosa professed ignorance about the allegations behind his apparent fugitive status before verbally dueling with Mayor Eddie Branquinho again.

Sheriff Requests 10 Additional Deputies for Palm Coast, a 28% Policing Budget Increase Posing Dilemma for City

July 13, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 31 Comments

The sheriff's appearance before the Palm Coast City Council this morning. (Palm Coast)

The Sheriff is asking for 10 deputies from Palm Coast and 15 from the county in line with a staffing analysis he commissioned last year. But Palm Coast’s budget for next year includes other costly priorities and assumes a slight tax increase as it is. The Sheriff’s request is complicating the city’s math and council members’ already strained dynamics.

Nobles’ Resignation Added to Baxley’s, Bunnell Invites Residents to Apply for 2 Commission Seat Appointments

July 12, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

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The Bunnell commission decided on seeking two appointments within the month in an evening of farewells and surprises, with Commissioner John Rogers revealing that he had just been battling Covid-19, and had been gravely ill, and former County Commissioner Nate McLaughlin, looking fit and conversant, making his first public appearance in a government setting since he suffered a stroke in February.

Flagler Beach Mayor Throws Marker Against Supporting Organizations Appearing on Joe Mullins Infomercial

July 12, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 45 Comments

A mirror at the Family Life Center's offices. The center runs the county's only shelter for abused people. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler Beach Mayor Suzie Johnston, with fellow-commissioners’ support, severed her support for the Family Life Center, the shelter for abused people, after the center’s director appeared on Joe Mullins’s partisan infomercial on WNZF, what Johnston described as crossing a line. Mullins recently had slurred Flagler Beach commissioners as “cowards” and has been in an open feud with Commission Chairman Eric Cooley.

As Condo Tower Death Toll Reaches 90, Renner Says No Need for Immediate Changes to Building Codes

July 12, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

Rep. Paul Renner. (© FlaglerLive)

Rep. Paul Renner, a Palm Coast Republican set to take over as House speaker following the 2022 elections, pointed to the inability of the Champlain Towers South condo association to quickly address safety and structural repairs needed for the once 12-story building.

Proud Boys and Other Extremists Rally at Florida’s Old Capitol to Demand Release of Jan. 6 Insurrection Lawbreakers

July 11, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 29 Comments

Many of the defenders of the Jan. 6 insurrectionists who gathered on the steps of the old Capitol wore face coverings--not because they were following CDC recommendations, but to hide their faces as they called for the release of attackers accused of crimes in the Jan. 6 insurrection. (Laura Cassels)

About 100 people rallied on the lawn of the Historic Capitol Museum in Tallahassee. They flashed signs at passersby and chanted, “Let them go,” in reference to people arrested during the Jan. 6 attack.

Councilman Barbosa Under Federal Investigation Following Allegation of Kidnapping and Extortion; Sheriff’s Investigation Deems Him a Fugitive

July 9, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 132 Comments

Victor Barbosa was elected to the Palm Coast City Council last year and is running for the County Commission in 2022. (© FlaglerLive)

Palm Coast City Council member Victor Barbosa may be a fugitive from justice in Costa Rica, where he has been “considered armed and dangerous on the charge of Kidnapping,” according to Flagler County Sheriff Chief Dan Engert, who has requested that the Florida Department of Law Enforcement investigate the matter.

An Alan Lowe Campaign Message: 60 Seconds, 2 Violations of Law, 3 Falsehoods, 4 Misleading or Deceptive Statements

July 8, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 35 Comments

Alan Lowe. (© FlaglerLive)

Lowe’s contempt for facts was apparent in his run for the mayorship last year and has characterized his renewed run in the July 27 special election for mayor. If all six candidates are sincere, including Lowe, only Lowe makes explicitly false statements, misleading claims, legal violations, and ideologically-driven pitches that have little to no connection to Palm Coast governance. 

Flagler Sheriff’s Deputy Lentino Suspended Pending Investigation into Dating Violence Involving 21-Year-Old Woman

July 8, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 29 Comments

Flagler County Sheriff's deputy Robert Lentino started with the agency in February 2018. Shoirtly afterward, he appeared in a brief video profile issued by the agency.

Flagler County Sheriff’s deputy Robert Lentino, 26, who has been with the agency three years, was relieved of duty–with pay–just before noon today pending an investigation of an allegation of dating violence against his 21-year-old girlfriend.

Should You Be Concerned About the Delta Variant in Flagler? Absolutely, Health Officials Say–If You’re Not Vaccinated

July 8, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

Hang them up to dry, but don;t get rid of them just yet. (Anne Holmes)

The bottom-line verdict on the Delta variant of the coronavirus is this: it is far more transmissible than its predecessors. It is more virulent. Vaccinated people, while not immune, are extremely unlikely to be gravely sickened by it. Unvaccinated people remain susceptible to easy infection, a greater chance of serious illness, and death.

Florida Realtors’ Support for Ballot Initiative to Protect Affordable Housing Fund Rises to $13 Million

July 8, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

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If approved by 60 percent of voters, the proposed ballot measure would establish in the Florida Constitution the State Housing Trust Fund and the Local Government Housing Trust Fund. It would require that the trust funds receive at least 25 percent of the revenue from documentary-stamp taxes — which are collected on real-estate transactions — and would detail how the money could be used to address affordable housing.

In Bunnell, One Commissioner Resigns, Another Is Ailing and Absent, Leaving 2 Seats Vacant for Budget Season

July 7, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

Bunnell City Commissioner Bill Baxley is retiring after eight years on the board. His last meeting is Monday. (© FlaglerLive)

Bunnell City Commissioner Bill Baxley resigned–or retired–after eight years on the commission, and Donnie Nobles has been absent after strokes, leaving the commission with the choice of leaving the seats vacant until next March, or making at least one appointment.

Carol Bacha, Palm Coast Mayor Candidate: The Live Interview

July 7, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

Carol Bacha. (© FlaglerLive)

Carol Bacha is a candidate for Palm Coast Mayor in the July 27 special election. All registered voters in the city may cast a ballot in that non-partisan election regardless of party affiliation or location in Palm Coast.

David Alfin, Palm Coast Mayor Candidate: The Live Interview

July 6, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

David Alfin. (© FlaglerLive)

David Alfin is a candidate for Palm Coast Mayor in the July 27 special election. All registered voters in the city may cast a ballot in that non-partisan election regardless of party affiliation or location in Palm Coast.

Flagler Schools Refuse Free Rapid Covid Tests That Could Minimize Quarantines Even as 9 Private Schools Sign Up

July 6, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

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Flagler County schools have declined an offer from the Flagler County Health Department to place free rapid-covid-test kits at the district’s nine school campuses. The rapid tests, part of a federal grant, could have been used to drastically minimize the need for students to be quarantined at home for 10 days at a time when merely suspected of having been exposed to the virus.

Your Government Will Have a Harder Time Giving You Run-Around Over Public Records Thanks to New Law

July 5, 2021 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Judges have better things to do than force governments to comply with public record laws. (© FlaglerLive)

Your government can’t drag you into court anymore if you file a request for a public document. Legislation now signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis has put an end to these “declaratory judgment” lawsuits.

Jimmy’s Hang Ten Restaurant Owner Jim Harris Charged With Molesting 14-Year-Old Girl

July 4, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 53 Comments

James Edwin Harris.

James “Jimmy” Edwin Harris, the 61-year-old owner of Jimmy’s Hang Ten, the restaurant in Flagler Beach, was arrested on late Friday night on two counts of molesting an under-age girl. He’s being held at the Flagler County jail on no bond. 

Dealing Florida Legislature 2nd Blow in 2 Days, Federal Judge Blocks Law Limiting Contributions for Ballot Initiatives

July 2, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

They're freer in Ontario. (CFS Ontario)

The law, passed by the Republican-dominated Legislature this spring and signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis, would impose a $3,000 limit on contributions to political committees collecting petition signatures to place proposed constitutional amendments on the ballot.

Life in Prison for Leon Wiley for Attempting to ‘Erase’ Step-Daughter Through 6 Years of Depraved Abuse and Sadism

July 2, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Leon Norman Wiley today at his sentencing. He was sentenced to life in prison without parole. (© FlaglerLive)

55-year-old Leon Norman Wiley Jr.’s three-hour sentencing hearing today included victim impact statements of shattering details from the step-daughter he’d raped, impregnated and pimped out since she was 12, from her mother, and even from Wiley’s own parents, who had no illusions about the crimes he’d committed, though they asked for some mercy.

Kathy Austrino, Palm Coast Mayor Candidate: The Live Interview

July 2, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

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Kathy Austrino is a candidate for Palm Coast Mayor in the July 27 special election. All registered voters in the city may cast a ballot in that non-partisan election regardless of party affiliation or location in Palm Coast.

Supreme Court Blunts Voting Rights in Arizona, and Potentially Nationwide, in Consequential Ruling

July 1, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

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Arizona may keep two voting laws that Republicans say protect election integrity and Democrats believe will make it harder for some residents to cast ballots. That’s the United States Supreme Court’s decision in Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee, one of the decade’s most important voting rights cases.

Alan Lowe, Palm Coast Mayor Candidate: The Live Interview

July 1, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 32 Comments

Alan Lowe, left, with Ed Danko, his campaign manager-adviser, who has said "I need Lowe" on the council, along with Councilman Victor Barbosa, who has also been helping Lowe's campaign. Lowe did not participate in the Live Interview, apparently on Danko's advice: Danko told the Observer Lowe would not participate in that interview since he was the front-runner, and presumably didn't need to. (© FlaglerLive)

Alan Lowe is a candidate for Palm Coast Mayor in the July 27 special election. All registered voters in the city may cast a ballot in that non-partisan election regardless of party affiliation or location in Palm Coast.

Despite Covid, Property Values Jump by 10% in Palm Coast, 9% Countywide, With Revenue Windfall from New Construction

July 1, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

Values are still far from the last decade's crazier years. (© FlaglerLive)

New construction alone means an additional $1.2 million in revenue for Palm Coast, despite the Year of Covid. That will be compounded by millions of new dollars in government coffers drawn from the federal government’s stimulus. The two combined means that tax increases are very unlikely, and tax decreases possible.

Joe Mullins’s Defamatory Attack on Eric Cooley

July 1, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 36 Comments

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Ostensibly proposing a discussion about sexual predators and domestic violence abusers, Joe Mullins in a Facebook posting about his radio infomercial features a screenshot of Bill Cosby over one article, and the image of Flagler Beach City Commissioner Eric Cooley over another, implying an equivalence. 

You May No Longer Legally Lodge Anonymous Code Enforcement Complaints, But Mandate Is Easily Evaded

June 30, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 26 Comments

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The new law does not address enforcement of the identification provision, it does not set out any requirements for verification, it does not signal any penalties for people who invent names, and it imposes no requirements either on local governments in general or on code enforcement officers to do more than note whether a complainant has been identified or not.

Travis Lee, Who Sued the District Last Year, Takes Helm at Rymfire; Ryan Andrews Is New Indian Trails Principal

June 30, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Ryan Andrews, left, and Travis Lee, the new principals at Indian Trails Middle School and Rymfire Elementary. (Flagler Schools)

The three new principals’ appointments dovetail two other, less visible but influential postings at the district office and reflect the superintendent’s pronounced nod to diversity, a year after Lee sued the district, charging discrimination.

More than 100 New Laws Take Effect in Florida, from School Vouchers to Trans Bans to Silence

June 29, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

If all else fails, alcohol to go is now law. (© FlaglerLive)

More than 100 new laws passed during the 2021 legislative session will hit the books this week, ranging from a record $100 billion state budget to a ban on Covid-19 vaccine “passports” and an expansion of school vouchers.

Doug Courtney, Palm Coast Mayor Candidate: The Live Interview

June 29, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

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Doug Courtney is a candidate for Palm Coast Mayor in the July 27 special election. All registered voters in the city may cast a ballot in that non-partisan election regardless of party affiliation or location in Palm Coast.

Flagler Beach Will Borrow Up to $15 Million to Finance Reconstruction of Its Ramshackle Sewer Plant

June 29, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

The Flagler Beach City Commission is embarking on an ambitious and expensive plan to rebuild its derelict sewer plant and position the city to stop dumping treated water in the Intracoastal by the beginning of the next decade.

Federal Judge Doesn’t Hide Distaste for Florida Law Forbidding Social Media from Banning Users

June 28, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

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Arguing that the law would violate social-media companies’ First Amendment rights and harm their efforts to moderate content, the industry groups have asked U.S. District Judge Robert Hinkle to block the law from going into effect Thursday as scheduled.

Leon Wiley Admits He Raped His Minor Step-Daughter for Years But Says Jury Was Wrong to Convict Him

June 28, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

Leon Norman Wiley in court this afternoon. The judge denied a motion for a new trial. (© FlaglerLive)

Leon Norman Wiley Jr., 54, was found guilty by a jury of raping his stepdaughter since she was 12, but he argued today that he was owed a new trial because none of the abuse took place in Flagler County. The judge rejected the argument. Wiley is to be sentenced Friday to what may amount to life in prison.

Flagler Beach’s First Friday Returns in September, But Commissioners Want It Refocused on Local Businesses

June 28, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

First Friday is returning to Flagler Beach this September. (© FlaglerLive)

First Friday will return at Veterans Park in Flagler Beach on Sept. 3, for the first time in a year and a half, but under the new sponsorship of Vern Shank, known as DJ Vern, and Surf Radio, a switch from Flagler Broadcasting’s Beach 92.7, which had sponsored the event for the past nine years.

Surfside Condo Deaths Rise to 9; Mexico and Israel Send Teams to Assist as DeSantis Sends Teams to Border

June 28, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

The search continued. (Miami-Dade Fire Rescue)

DeSantis denied that his deployment of 50 state police officers to the Texas-Mexico boarder has left the Surfside response weakened. The state is ready to deploy teams if needed, DeSantis said. However, Israel and Mexico has sent teams to assist, officials said.

The Insurrection: New Details Suggest Senior Trump Aides Knew Jan. 6 Rally Could Get Chaotic

June 26, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

One of the goons in action in a still from a video released by the FBI. See others here.

Senior Trump aides had been warned the Jan. 6 events could turn chaotic, with tens of thousands of people potentially overwhelming ill-prepared law enforcement officials. Rather than trying to halt the march, Trump and his allies accommodated its leaders, according to text messages and interviews with Republican operatives and officials.

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