Flagler County News

Florida's unemployment rate continued its steady upward climb in October to 11.2 percent -- last seen in the 1970s -- a tenth of a percentage point higher than September's adjusted rate, state officials said Friday.

For five years, scenic byway advocates and local governments have been working to beautify the Flagler County coastline.

More than 30 marijuana plants were confiscated from a Flagler County home Thursday night and a Daytona Beach man was under arrest on charges of running an illegal cultivation operation.

Flagler County's fear of fires has them taking to the air every day. News-JournalOnline.com reports that the rising drought index has Palm Coast Fire Chief Mike Beadle concerned about wildfires.

During the Flagler County Commission's annual reorganization, commissioners unanimously voted in George Hanns as the new county chairman.

An accident reconstruction expert told a Flagler County jury that a truck driver wasn't to blame in a fatal accident even though that driver ran a stop sign and crashed into another vehicle.

Someone intentionally set the fire that raced through the Boot Hill Saloon's Ormond Beach location, the state Fire Marshal's Office said Friday.

A Circuit Court jury in Flagler County Thursday returned a $5.1 million verdict in a wrongful death case stemming from a 2006 fatal collision between a fully loaded tractor-trailer and a Honda minivan.

A Flagler County jury hearing the wrongful-death lawsuit against a sod company and its diver over a 2006 wreck that killed a woman and seriously injured her husband returned a $5.1 million judgment.

Emergency crews with Volusia County Fire Rescue responded to a fire at The Boot Hill Saloon North, located at 310 Main Street in Holly Hill early Thursday evening.

A former high-ranking Army general here for a Veterans Day speech said Wednesday he thinks no more troops should be committed in Afghanistan.

A sod company's accident reconstruction expert testified that a truck driver was blameless for a crash that killed a woman and seriously injured her husband -- even though the driver ran a stop sign and collided with the Palm Coast couple's minivan at Cody's Corner.

A veteran police officer arrested in 2006 after a surprise stint on NBC's "To Catch a Predator" will be prosecuted in Walton County, the Sheriff's Office said Monday.

Mossy Head, FL Over the weekend, a fugitive from the Mossy Head community surrendered to authorities.

David Ray Maldonado, 43, pleaded no contest to lewd and lascivious battery and possession of child pornography in a Flagler County courtroom on Monday.

A Bunnell man who lives in a shed is accused of trying to kill a man by beating him in the head and body with a weapon, police said.

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A dose of the swine flu vaccine mist, also known as the H1N1 vaccine, is shown at the Flagler County Health Department in Bunnell, Fla., on Thursday.

An Orange Park woman was killed Saturday afternoon in a wreck on Interstate 95 in Flagler County.

Negotiations that began last week between representatives of the Flagler County teachers union and the school district are off to a good start, a district official said.