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Seniors Helping Seniors: Veterans help veterans with in-home care and living assistance
Seniors Helping Seniors provides in-home care services to those in need. Mike Walters, owner of SHS Flagler, St. Johns and Volusia counties, serves veterans needing assistance and companionship with senior veteran caregivers. Collaboration takes place between the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs/the Veterans Administration, a primary care physician, family members and SHS.
Police: Daytona 13-year-old 'dared' to call in a bomb threat now facing criminal charges
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — A 13-year-old who says he was dared to call in a bomb threat at a Flagler County middle school is facing charges in what the sheriff says was a copy cat call after other threats were made throughout the district earlier in the week. Flagler...
Buddy Taylor Middle School in Palm Coast gets 3rd consecutive threatening call
For the third time in three days, Buddy Taylor Middle School in Palm Coast was targeted Thursday with a threat: this time of a bomb, according to the Flagler County Sheriff's Office. The threat was made as student drop off began Thursday morning, the sheriff's office stated. ...
Emergency Order Will Criminalize Walking on Dunes in Flagler County; Flagler Beach’s Experience: Education Works
The Flagler County Commission on Monday is expected to approve an emergency order that criminalizes walking on dunes anywhere along the county’s 18 miles of shoreline. The penalty may be a $500 fine and 60 days in jail. The order reflects several pulses of urgency: It is is prompted...
Attorneys for Circuit Judge Rose Marie Preddy argue opponent should be disqualified
Former circuit judge Scott DuPont should not be allowed to run for a return to the bench because he fails to meet qualification requirements, according to a motion filed by attorneys for incumbent Circuit Judge Rose Marie Preddy in the latest round of the legal fight. The Florida Supreme Court in a 2018...
Teen arrested after ‘copycat’ threat prompts more lockdowns at Flagler schools
FLAGLER COUNTY, Fla. – A 13-year-old boy was arrested in Daytona Beach after calling in a bomb threat to a Flagler middle school in what investigators believe is a copycat to a series of similar calls to other schools in the county, according to the sheriff’s office. Sheriff...
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