“I am an alcoholic and needed something to drink,” a 56 year-old homeless man told St Augustine Police detective Michael Keegan last week, after he was taken into custody and charged with burglary (a third-degree felony) and larceny (a second-degree misdemeanor).
Yesterday, HB-3, outlawing all Internet sweepstakes cafes in Florida, passed through the House, as expected; but Historic City News learned from Tallahassee insiders, the measure is not likely to be taken up by the Senate; whose members embrace another entertainment option for residents and tourists that could raise as much as $4 million annually in licensing fees through regulation.
Members of the Board of Trustees for the Florida School for the Deaf and Blind convened in an emergency meeting today to discuss the flashpoint issue of taking property through a process known as “eminent domain” that has brought tempers in the otherwise peaceful neighborhood surrounding the campus to a rolling-boil.
The information contained in this report is taken from sources deemed reliable; the accuracy and completeness of which Historic City News does not control and cannot guarantee.
The original public records are on file with the St. Johns County Tax Collector and should be consulted before taking any action.
In a scene that could have played out in a war-zone in the Middle East, a 53 year-old St Augustine man entered the Veterans Administration clinic this morning, asked to see a staff physician, unexpectedly poured gasoline on himself and the doctor, then tried to strike a match.
In an e-mail to Florida House member Fred Costello from Secretary Ananth Prasad that was forwarded to St Augustine City Manager John Regan and read into the minutes of the City Commission meeting Monday night, the Secretary acquiesced to the Representative’s call supporting US flags to fly over the Bridge of Lions.
Can someone remind me exactly when it was that we decided you have to have a permit to display an American flag in this country?
At the regular meeting of the St Augustine City Commission Monday night, Historic City News reporters listened as a delegation from the Haitian American Historical Society, submitted a proposal to erect, at their expense, a monument paying tribute to Florida’s first Black General; the Black Caudillo, Jorge Biassou.
