HISTORIC CITY NEWS
Historic City News has been published daily since March 2000. Reporting local news for St Augustine and St Johns County Florida, Historic City News is the county's only free press. Our mission is to hold public figures accountable to the public.
Detectives with the Sheriff’s Office Major Crimes Unit are seeking Historic City News readers who may have information on the whereabouts of a St. Johns County woman who was reported missing Friday.
St. Johns County Circuit Judge Howard Maltz has reached his decision in the Bert J. Harris Jr. Private Property Rights Protection Act lawsuit filed against the City of St Augustine after the Planning and Zoning Board, Historic Architectural Review Board, and city commission all denied Donna Wendler, her husband Scott, and Wendler Properties, the right to demolish decrepit, aging buildings on their King Street property.
Public Affairs officer, Maj. Caitlin Brown, reported to Historic City News that approximately 340 soldiers and airmen from the Florida National Guard supported the 58th Presidential Inauguration this week in Washington, D.C.
Historic City News readers are invited to attend the Lightner Museum for their monthly evening of lively conversation and harmonious music on January 26th from 5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. in the Grand Ballroom Gallery.
Sreeniketh Vogoti, an eighth-grade student at Fruit Cove Middle School, won the 2017 St. Johns County School District Spelling Bee held today at First Coast Technical College according to an announcement received by Historic City News local reporters.
In the nationally syndicated radio program “Dr. Carole’s Couch”, heard worldwide on VoiceAmerica Internet Talk Radio, Board Certified Psychiatrist Carole Lieberman, MD, MPH, looks at the evidence collected in the death of Michelle O’Connell and offers her forensic timeline based on a review of the 9-1-1 call from Deputy Jeremy Banks, crime scene photographs, an investigator’s report, and a review of the PBS FRONTLINE episode chronicling the case.
At about 10:30 p.m. last night, Historic City News was informed that the Florida Highway Patrol was investigating a traffic homicide on SR-A1A near Gnarled Oaks Drive in St Johns County.
Historic City News was informed that a new Veterans Treatment Court, modeled after a similar court in Volusia County and designed to focus on military veterans in the criminal justice system, is about to start in St Augustine.