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Staff ReportsMay 21, 2018

Gov. Rick Scott ordered flags at half-staff in Florida, in solidarity with Texas as it mourns 10 dead there after another high school shooting spree. “My wife, Ann, and I are devastated to learn of the tragic school shooting in Santa Fe, Texas,” he said in a statement. “I spoke to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott […]

Staff ReportsMay 14, 2018

Gov. Rick Scott has ordered flags at half-staff Tuesday to honor the Highlands County sheriff’s deputy killed on duty May 7. Deputy William J. Gentry Jr., 40, had served with the the Highlands County Sheriff’s Office for nine years, according to the Officer Down Memorial Page. Gentry was shot and killed “while responding to an animal […]

Staff ReportsApril 23, 2018

Gov. Rick Scott has ordered flags at half-staff Tuesday in honor of Gilchrist County Sheriff’s deputies Noel Ramirez and Taylor Lindsey. The Governor’s Office made the announcement Monday evening. Ramirez, a 29-year-old sergeant, had been in law enforcement for seven years and Deputy Taylor, 25, served for over three years. “Investigators say a man opened fire […]

Staff ReportsMarch 26, 2018

Gov. Rick Scott ordered flags at half staff for two Florida men killed in a military helicopter crash in the Middle East. On March 15, U.S. Air Force Master Sgt. William R. Posch of Indialantic and Air Force Staff Sgt. Carl Enis of Tallahassee died along with five other crew members in the crash, in […]

Staff ReportsMarch 23, 2018

Gov. Rick Scott has ordered flags at half-staff to honor two Navy Aviators: Lt. Cmdr. James Brice Johnson of Virginia Beach, Virginia, and Lt. Caleb Nathaniel King of Port Orange. They died Wednesday when their F/A-18F Super Hornet crashed on final approach near the Naval Air Station in Key West. The two were assigned to the “Blacklions” of Strike […]

Staff ReportsMarch 20, 2018

Gov. Rick Scott has ordered flags at half staff “in honor and remembrance of the victims of the Florida International University pedestrian bridge collapse” in Miami. His office made the announcement Tuesday. The U.S. and state flags will be flown at half-staff sunrise to sunset Thursday at the Capitol in Tallahassee, “and at all local and state […]

Staff ReportsFebruary 23, 2018

Gov. Rick Scott on Friday ordered flags at half-staff for former state Rep. Rob Wallace. Wallace, a Republican, represented House District 47, comprising northwest Hillsborough and northern Pinellas counties, from 1994 to 2002. He lived in Tampa, and owned and operated a civil and environmental engineering company. The 65-year-old died earlier this week after jumping from […]

Staff ReportsJanuary 5, 2018

Gov. Rick Scott has ordered flags at half-staff this Sunday in honor of Broward County Sheriff’s Deputy Michael David Ryan. The Governor’s Office made the announcement Friday evening. Ryan, 58, died on New Year’s Eve after almost 14 years of service with the sheriff’s office, a news release said. He had “collapsed during an encounter […]

Jim RosicaDecember 29, 2017

Flags will be flown at half-staff next Tuesday to honor the late state Rep. Don Hahnfeldt, Gov. Rick Scott announced Friday. Hahnfeldt, first elected last year to represent House District 33, died on Christmas Eve. The district includes Sumter County and parts of Lake and Marion counties. Scott ordered the U.S. and state flags to be […]

Jim RosicaNovember 28, 2017

Gov. Rick Scott on Tuesday announced he had ordered flags at half-staff to honor the late David Hobbs, Sheriff of Jefferson County in north Florida. Hobbs, who had cancer, died after being hospitalized Monday. He was 58. According to a news obituary in the Tallahassee Democrat, he was elected sheriff in 2004 after serving as a Florida Highway Patrol […]

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Flags at half-staff for Texas school shooting victims

Flags ordered at half-staff for Highlands County deputy

Flags at half-staff for slain Gilchrist County deputies

Flags at half-staff for Air Force sergeants killed in Iraq

Flags at half-staff for fallen service members

Flags at half staff for FIU bridge collapse victims

Flags ordered at half-staff for former Rep. Rob Wallace

Flags at half-staff for Broward County deputy

Flags ordered at half-staff for Don Hahnfeldt

Flags at half-staff for Jefferson County Sheriff David Hobbs