Flagler County 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.

Paul Miller, who was convicted of killing his Flagler Beach neighbor during an argument over Miller's barking dogs, faces up to life in prison when he is sentenced on Tuesday.

The owner of the Mobil Mart where a clerk was fatally shot the night of Feb. 21 was arraigned on his insurance fraud charge Monday at the Kim C. Hammond Justice Center.

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.

Flagler County detectives are investigating the Friday night robbery of a Holly Hill man that occurred in a rural area of the western part of the county.

The heat continues in Volusia and Flagler counties with the start of the work week, while the chance of rain increases.

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.

Stewart Maxcy was once the dean at Wadsworth Elementary, but the former disciplinarian isn't a stickler for rules.

Gala XI: Pearls from the Sea was held by Flagler Health Care Foundation May 17 to 19 at the Hammock Beach Resort in Flagler County, raising $300,000 for Flagler Hospital.

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)

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

Over the past two weeks, Flagler County deputies have responded to seven raccoon-related calls, including one that was "hissing and jumping" at school children at a bus stop.

So once again pit bulls are prominently in the central Florida news and sides are lining up whether to call for a ban or to consider each incident on its own merits.

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.

Residents of Flagler County might notice smoke in the skies today from a prescribed fire at the Pellicer Creek Conservation Area.

A man who once led law enforcement officers on a high-speed chase in an SUV with two blown-off tires was sentenced to 16 years in prison on Wednesday.

A Flagler County sheriff's deputy was ordered to turn in his gun and reassigned to a desk job while the Florida Department of Law Enforcement investigates allegations he abused a woman and child.