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Woman gets probation in golf-cart attack

BUNNELL -- A woman who turned a golf cart into a weapon and intentionally ran down and dragged another woman for about 15 yards was sentenced Thursday to three years' probation. Linda Lee Pearce, 42, of Daytona Beach entered a plea of no contest to ...

From FRANK FERNANDEZ, Daytona Beach News-Journal,  20 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Chris Kelly

Jury awards $5.1M in fatal Flagler crash

BUNNELL -- A jury on Thursday awarded $5.1 million to a Palm Coast man who was severely injured and whose wife was killed when a sod truck ran a stop sign at Cody's Corner and collided with the couple's van. The jury found that negligence by McMaster ...

From FRANK FERNANDEZ, Daytona Beach News-Journal,  13 Nov 2009

Accident expert defends truck driver in fatal accident

BUNNELL -- 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 ...

From FRANK FERNANDEZ, Daytona Beach News-Journal,  12 Nov 2009

'Predator' suspect case moved to Panhandle

BUNNELL -- Charges against a former Alabama police officer arrested during Dateline NBC's "To Catch a Predator" sex sting in Flagler Beach are now hitting closer to home after prosecutors moved most of the case to Walton County in northwest ...

From FRANK FERNANDEZ, Daytona Beach News-Journal,  11 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Chris Kelly

Widower testifies in wrongful-death trial

BUNNELL -- It wasn't the broken ribs and the punctured lungs that David Falkenstein has found the hardest to overcome. It wasn't his fractured pelvis held together at one time by steel rods or the other injuries he suffered when a sod truck ran a stop ...

From FRANK FERNANDEZ, Daytona Beach News-Journal,  7 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Wal-Mart

Civil suit seeks damages in fatal wreck

BUNNELL -- A trooper testified during a civil trial Wednesday that he found no signs a sod truck driver tried to stop as his rig sped past a stop sign at Cody's Corner and collided with a minivan, killing a Palm Coast woman and seriously injuring her ...

From FRANK FERNANDEZ, Daytona Beach News-Journal,  5 Nov 2009

Man accused in teen molestation pleads no contest

BUNNELL -- David Ray Maldonado, wearing a T-shirt that read "Jesus is Life. The rest is just details" as he stood in court Monday, pleaded no contest to lewd and lascivious battery and 50 counts of possession of child pornography. Now Maldonado, 43, ...

From FRANK FERNANDEZ, Daytona Beach News-Journal,  3 Nov 2009

Tattoos focus of Milano's hearing

BUNNELL -- The former mob hit man accused of attacking two men in a fracas over a calzone at his now-defunct Goomba's pizzeria said recently he was just defending himself from a pair of "goons" with tattoos on their arms. But it was the tattoos of ...

From FRANK FERNANDEZ, Daytona Beach News-Journal,  25 Oct 2009

Flagler drug crackdown nets nearly 50 arrests

Investigators slapped handcuffs on nearly 50 people Friday as part of a crackdown on the sale of illegal prescription drugs, according to the Flagler County Sheriff's Office. The arrests are part of what the Sheriff's Office has dubbed "Operation Blue ...

From FRANK FERNANDEZ, Daytona Beach News-Journal,  24 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Michael Smith,  Richard Raymond (politician),  James Hall

Palm Coast OKs incentives to court 'smart grid' company

Palm Coast is offering to pay some relocation costs for employees and other incentives as it tries to woo an unnamed company to the city. The City Council on Tuesday unanimously approved a package of economic incentives to offer the company. City ...

From FRANK FERNANDEZ, Daytona Beach News-Journal,  21 Oct 2009

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