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Florida Kills Jesse Guardado, 64, Who Had Murdered the Woman Who Helped Him After Jail

Jesse Guardado, who murdered a Panhandle woman in 2004 after she helped him reset his life following his release from jail, was put to death by lethal injection at Florida State Prison on Thursday. He ...
FlaglerLive

Sheriff Seizes Luxury Assets, 8 Cars And Designer Goods From ‘Drug Kingpin’ Posing as Dump Truck Driver

Sheriff Rick Staly announced the successful prosecution and sentencing of what he described as drug kingpin Claude Harris and his brother John Harris to 14.5 and 3.5 years in prison following a joint ...
FlaglerLive

Democrats Gain in Florida Legislature, Ending GOP’s Supermajority in House and Senate

Republicans are poised to drop around 15 seats and their supermajority hold in the Florida House, but are poised to recapture ...
FlaglerLive

Pontieri and Pennington Win County Commission, Amaral and Shelley Win Palm Coast, Chong Keeps School Board

In a midterm election that will bring major changes to local governments, Tony Amaral Jr. and Darlene Shelley won Palm Coast City Council seats today, Theresa Pontieri, the first-term Palm Coast City ...
FlaglerLive

Washington Post Reports DeSantis Is Running for President. He Calls It Fabricated.

While DeSantis’ next move has been widely speculated on since he abandoned his 2024 campaign, he’s unambiguously denying any such plans to join what will be a crowded field of presidential hopefuls ...
FlaglerLive

Along Flagler Shore, Severe Beach Erosion From Nor’Easter and King Tides Highlights Escalating Protection Challenges

Flagler County beaches suffered severe erosion from recent storms, exposing the vulnerability of local dunes and coastal infrastructure, as a FlaglerLive survey of the shoreline illustrates in a ...
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Stoicism aside, Flagler And City Governments Brace For Historic Revenue Losses From Amendment 3

Florida voters passed Amendment 3, raising homestead exemptions and stripping millions from municipal budgets across Flagler County. Palm Coast faces a $21.7 million revenue loss, Bunnell loses $1 ...
FlaglerLiveOpinion

Students Have Quit Reading Whole Books

College professors confront a growing crisis as students read fewer complete books and high school assignments increasingly ...
FlaglerLiveOpinion

Suez Exposed British Decline 70 Years Ago. Iran Conflict Is Doing the Same to the U.S. Now.

Operation Epic Fury in the Middle East closed the Strait of Hormuz, driving inflation upward worldwide. Decades earlier, the ...
FlaglerLive

Sheriff Staly Jumps on Convenience Store Robbery on SR100 to Rail Against Flock Cameras’ Removal

Adrian Rafael Castano, an 18-year-old Miami resident, is being held on $100,000 bond at the St. Johns County jail on charges of robbery at a Palm Coast convenience store and grand theft of an Uber in ...
FlaglerLive

3,000 Flagler County Residents Lost Food Stamps in Past Year. Food-A-Thon Hopes to Raise $100,000 to Help.

Federal food stamp reductions stripped 3,000 people from local SNAP rolls in the past year as the Big Beautiful Bill kicked in, and local aid fell by over 20 percent. In this climate, Flagler Radio is ...
FlaglerLive

21-Year-Old Accused of Getting 14-Year-Old Drunk and Sexually Assaulting Her

Gavin Amante Opare, a 21-year-old Palm Coast’s R Section, is at the Flagler County jail on $100,000 bond on an accusation that he got a middle school girl drunk and raped her. The girl, who is 14 and ...