Citizens assist police to catch purse snatcher

Community Affairs Officer Barbara Clifford of the St. Augustine Police Department reports to our local news desk that last week a 69 year-old woman became the victim of a purse snatching but the suspect was arrested — thanks to some alert citizens.


Local St. Augustine news reports from Greg White, chair of the West Augustine Community Redevelopment Agency, say top Florida Memorial University officials visited recently to discuss commercial and residential development of its of West Augustine acreage.
The City of St. Augustine invites all Historic City local news readers to join in the 16th Century Noche de Gala Celebration honoring the founder of our nation’s oldest city.
A Hot Shot editor who only recently wrote his first “blog” says that he’s passed the proverbial buck sufficiently so as not to generate blame for himself because he “called our company’s lawyer, an expert in First Amendment issues, and asked him: Would we be committing a crime if we published FBI surveillance tapes? No, he said, as long as the person who got them did so legally.”