Palm Coast News

By hook or by crook - or maybe just higher property taxes - money will be put back into the Flagler County library budget for materials, Flagler County commissioners vowed Monday during a budget workshop.

A 21-year-old Palm Coast man is accused of raping a woman as she walked from the beach following an argument with her ex-boyfriend.

Richard D. Zasada, a Palm Coast and Jacksonville attorney who practices divorce and disability law, has launched a new website at www.zasadalaw.com .

Some Flagler County middle and high school students might cheer news they won't be spending more time in class during the coming year, but some of their parents aren't so thrilled.

The following was compiled from police reports collected from the St. Johns County Sheriff's Office , St. Augustine Beach Police Department , St. Augustine Police Department and Florida Department of Law Enforcement : a- Who: Jones, Tomas Gerard, 32, Palm Coast.

The check is in the mail. Good luck with that famous excuse if you've gotten a ticket from a red-light camera in the fair city of Palm Coast, the red-light ticketing capital of Flagler and Volusia counties.

Crystal Buchcanan and the Praise Dancers of Mount Calvary Baptist Church perform at the Remembrance, Reflection and Recitation of Juneteenth at the African American Cultural Center in Palm Coast Saturday, June 15, 2013.News-Journal / Steven Notaras Communities throughout Volusia and Flagler counties marked Juneteenth on Saturday with events to ... (more)

Heather Beaven and daughters Olivia, 9, and Bella , 8, pictured Wednesday, June 12, 2013, wait the return of their husband and father, Douglas, from his deployment in Afghanistan.

We all remember those awkward days of adolescence and how much we wanted to be one of the "cool kids."

With five years as the county seat's top administrator, Armando Martinez is one of the longest-serving city managers in the city's recent history.

Kevin Brathwaite hasn't had much experience dating. The 20-year-old Deltona resident, who started losing his sight when he was in middle school, said he "decided to make my main focus school."

Richard Dunn's life has been under close supervision since he fatally stabbed his father, a well-known Palm Coast physician, with a knife and forks in January 2006 and eventually was found not guilty by reason of insanity.

Flagler County is a recipient of the National Association of Counties 2013 Achievement Award for a west side water project.

Raccoons have been keeping Flagler County sheriff's deputies busy with seven calls of problems in two weeks, including one apparently sick animal that was "hissing and jumping" at schoolchildren getting off a bus after school.

The injunction for protection filed against a Flagler County sheriff's deputy was extended one more week by a judge Thursday.

Florida drivers will no longer face tickets at intersections with red light cameras if they come to a complete stop before making a right-hand turn.

In the Volusia-Flagler area, the average price of regular unleaded gas on Wednesday rose to $3.51 a gallon, up 3 cents from Monday.News-Journal / Fatima Hussein The hurricane season is less than 2 weeks old but has already blown in higher gasoline prices throughout Volusia and Flagler counties.

Marilyn Lombardi isn't buying the notion that the U.S. Postal Service lost the check she mailed to pay for her husband's red-light camera citation.

Think music is for geeks? Think again, says the "guy in pink." From banging on buckets to rapping about sleeping babies, Rodney Harshbarger's students never miss a beat.

A microchip helped in the search for a Michigan family's missing dog, which somehow wound up in Florida.