Sheriff searching for grocery store pickpockets

Shoppers beware — Historic City News has been informed that a man and woman, apparently working as a team, are being sought in connection with the theft of two wallets; picked from the purses of separate victims at two local grocery stores last Friday.

Public Safety

Police: Stay connected to your property

City Police spokesman, Mark Samson, reminds Historic City News readers that everyone in the crowds that have followed the Gentlemen of the Road Stopover to St Augustine has not necessarily come to town to enjoy the music.

Public Safety

If approved Riberia Pointe could be developed

While watching “Sea Hunt” on television as a child, it wasn’t necessary to wear fins and a mask; but, that didn’t keep the man who is in talks with the City of St Augustine to build an 8,000-square-foot aquarium on Riberia Pointe, from feeding his lifelong fascination with the ocean.

Business

High school driver education program earns award

St Johns County Tax Collector Dennis W. Hollingsworth, CFC, told Historic City News that he has received the inaugural safety award from the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles for the driver education program his office restored to local high schools.

Community

Unveiling of Civil Rights Library of St Augustine

Historic City News has learned that now, fifty-years after the fact, in the same dining room where a group of more than 100 students from the all-black Richard Murray High School held the first “sit-in” of the civil rights movement in St Augustine, Flagler College will introduce the Civil Rights Library.

Community

Detectives round up four teenage burglary suspects

St Johns County Sheriff’s Detective Samantha English has been busy rounding up burglars following a rash of break-ins to vehicles throughout the Northwest District of the county within the past several months. Historic City News received word of the re-arrest of one, and three additional arrests over the past few days.

Public Safety