Today, Historic City News received statements from Speaker Richard Corcoran and Minority Leader-designate Kionne McGhee after passage of HB- 67 to establish the Florida Slavery Memorial, which recognizes the fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality, and inhumanity of slavery in the United States.
Michael Gold, Editor in Chief
HISTORIC CITY NEWS
St Augustine, FL
I was raised in a family by two military officers; one commissioned, the other non-commissioned. I learned about the importance of the men and women who defend our American freedoms from a man and woman who went overseas and did.
Historic City News was informed that St Augustine Beach Commissioner Maggie Koskta was summoned to appear before the Municipal Code Enforcement Board of the City of St. Augustine Beach on Wednesday, January 24, 2018, at 2:00 p.m. in the City Commission Meeting Room at City Hall, 2200 State Road A1A South, St. Augustine Beach.
Courtney Sean O’Meara, whose last known address was 134 Tanager Road, was arrested in Duval County and transferred to the St. Johns County Detention Facility nearly two weeks ago, according to information obtained by Historic City News this afternoon.
Historic City News has learned that the business assets of local concrete manufacturer, Griswold Concrete, located at 201 Concourse Drive in Elkton, and 11660 Camden Road in Jacksonville, have been purchased by Tennessee based concrete manufacturer, SRM Concrete.
This morning, local Historic City News reporters attended a press conference in St Augustine’s Plaza de la Constitucion at the site of the historical monument to 44 of the city’s war dead — men who left to do battle in the US Civil War and whose bodies were never returned to their families.
As the investigation continues into the Saturday homicide of 20-year-old Kahlil R. Cooke of Mandarin, two arrests have been made and a missing truck and its driver, of interest in this case, have been located by authorities.
A 20-year-old Mandarin man who was shot in the woods in St Johns County was taken by friends to an area hospital, where he died late yesterday afternoon.
