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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 ReportsFebruary 23, 2018

Gov. Rick Scott on Thursday ordered flags at half-staff to honor Brevard County Sheriff’s Deputy Kevin Stanton. Stanton, a nearly 11-year veteran of the department, died while on duty Feb. 17. “His patrol car was struck by a tractor-trailer on I-95,” according to the Officer Down Memorial Page. “The tractor-trailer suffered a tire blow-out, causing […]

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 […]

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 […]

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

Flags at half staff for Brevard Deputy Kevin Stanton

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

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