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Staff ReportsOctober 19, 2017

Gov. Rick Scott ordered flags at half-staff to honor former state Rep. James F. “Jim” Tullis, who died Saturday. Tullis represented District 17, which included Jacksonville, in the Florida House of Representatives for one term between 1999 and 2000. He graduated with a degree in business and economics from Jacksonville University in 1965, and he was an […]

Staff ReportsOctober 13, 2017

Gov. Rick Scott ordered the U.S. and state flags at half-staff for the late James Ford, Tallahassee’s first African-American mayor. Flags will be lowered at the Tallahassee City Hall and at the Capitol in Tallahassee, from sunrise to sunset on Monday. Ford died Wednesday. He was 91. Ford became Tallahassee’s first black mayor in 1972, serving […]

Staff ReportsOctober 2, 2017

Gov. Rick Scott Monday has ordered flags at half-staff “in honor and remembrance of the victims of the act of violence committed in Las Vegas during the late-night hours of Oct. 1.” The U.S. and state flags will be flown at half-staff “at all local and state buildings, installations, and grounds throughout the State of […]

Staff ReportsSeptember 22, 2017

Gov. Rick Scott has ordered flags at half-staff in memory of St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Capt. Charles Scavuzzo, the Governor’s Office said Thursday night. Flags will be flown at half-staff at the St. Lucie County Courthouse, St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Office, Port St. Lucie City Hall and the County Administration Building in Fort Pierce from […]

Jim RosicaSeptember 15, 2017

Gov. Rick Scott has ordered flags at half-staff to honor Hardee County Sheriff’s Deputy Julie Ann Bridges and Florida Department of Corrections Sgt. Joseph Ossman. The two were killed Sunday in a two-car head-on collision. Bridges was on her way home after helping at a local hurricane shelter, reports said. Ossman was headed to work at a state prison. The […]

Staff ReportsAugust 28, 2017

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Gov. Rick Scott has ordered flags at half-staff to commemorate the passing of former state Sen. Greg Evers. Evers, 62, a strawberry farmer and Republican who represented Senate District 2 from 2010-16, died last week in a one-car accident near his home in unincorporated Baker, Okaloosa County. He previously served in the House 2000-10. “As a […]

Staff ReportsAugust 23, 2017

Gov. Rick Scott has ordered flags at half-staff for two Kissimmee Police officers slain in the line of duty. Last Friday, Officer Matthew Baxter and Sgt. Richard “Sam” Howard of the Kissimmee Police Department were shot when a suspect fired at them during a scuffle while they were on patrol. Both succumbed from their injuries. The alleged […]

Staff ReportsJune 29, 2017

The U.S. and state flags are at half-staff to honor the late Florida Supreme Court Justice Parker Lee McDonald. The body of McDonald, who died Saturday at the age of 93, lay in state Thursday in the rotunda of the Supreme Court building in Tallahassee. Gov. Rick Scott ordered flags at half-staff “as a symbol of […]

Staff ReportsJune 22, 2017

Gov. Rick Scott has ordered flags at half-staff to honor the late Florida Highway Patrol Sgt. William T. Bishop, who was hit by a car on Interstate 75 Saturday night. According to news4jax.com, Bishop was outside his patrol car investigating a traffic accident in Alachua County when he was struck. “He was taken to Shands Hospital […]

Staff ReportsJune 16, 2017

Gov. Rick Scott on Friday ordered flags at half-staff to honor Joshua Albert Sanchez Montaad, an Agricultural Law Enforcement Officer who died in a wreck while on duty. According to the Officer Down Memorial Page, Montaad—a 25-year-old from Safety Harbor in Pinellas County—was killed in a single car crash this Tuesday on U.S. 19 in Taylor County. “His […]

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Flags at half-staff for former Jax Rep. Jim Tullis

Flags at half-staff for late Tallahassee mayor

Rick Scott orders flags at half-staff for Las Vegas shooting victims

Flags at half-staff for St. Lucie County sheriff’s captain

Flags at half-staff for law enforcement deaths before Irma

Rick Scott: Flags at half-staff for Greg Evers

Rick Scott: Flags at half-staff for Kissimmee officers

Flags at half-staff to honor the ‘Whistling Justice’

Governor orders flags at half-staff for FHP Sgt. William T. Bishop

Rick Scott orders flags at half-staff for fallen officer