Two more arrests in Thursday police shooting
At the heart of the police shooting reported by Historic City News Thursday morning, was a St Johns County deputy’s discovery of a stolen 2012 KIA Sorento in the west parking lot of the Quality Inn located at SR-16 and Interstate 95.



At 10:21 p.m. last night, a customer who told Historic City News reporters that he stops almost daily at the Interstate Mobil gas station located at 6020 East SR-100 entered the Palm Coast convenience store to find the clerk lying on the floor in a pool of blood.
In accordance with Florida State Statute 775.21, this news release will serve as public notification that the St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office has been given information that a person judged to be a sexual predator is now residing within St. Johns County.
Laurie Sanderson reported the following St Augustine and St Johns County locations to Historic City News where the Florida Department of Transportation will be conducting roadwork that is expected to have an impact on driving, beginning this morning and continuing through the coming week.
City officials stood with city and county politicians during a Florida Department of Transportation ribbon cutting ceremony this morning; next to a handful of people who work for a living from design firm GAI Consultants and contractor Archer Western who marked the reopening of the San Sebastian Bridge.
Yesterday, a federal jury found 36-year-old Frank Freitas Higginbotham of Hastings guilty of one count of conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine and one count of distribution of methamphetamine.
The St Johns County Education Foundation reported to Historic City News that artwork created by nine local students has been selected by a panel of professional judges to hang with the PICASSO Art and Arena Exhibition at the St Augustine Visitor Center.
Historic City News has learned that representatives from the State Attorney’s Office, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and the St Johns, Flagler, Putnam and Volusia County sheriff’s offices joined Congressman Ron DeSantis in St Augustine yesterday to discuss law enforcement services.