Historic City News has received word that the two Palm Coast teenagers, who said they were kidnapped from The Hammock yesterday evening, have been located in the Orange Park area by Clay County sheriff’s deputies shortly after 1:00 a.m. this morning.
St Johns County Fire Rescue told Historic City News that firefighters responded to a reported residential structure fire in the 2000 block of Joe Ashton Rd at approximately 6:30 a.m. this morning.
County Commissioners approved a request from Sheriff David B. Shoar yesterday to transfer $18,000 to the Law Enforcement Trust Fund – Aid to Private Organizations account from Reserves for the support of the St. Augustine Society.
Mayor Joseph L. Boles, Jr., told city commissioners last week that Castillo de San Marcos Administrative Officer Lindsey Phillips will serve, until at least September 2012, in the position of interim director of the federal St. Augustine 450th Commemoration Commission.
Pat Greenfield reported to Historic City News that the annual fashion show, one of the largest fundraisers for the St Gerard Campus, was held on Saturday, December 17th at World Golf Village Renaissance Hotel.
Historic City News reporters attended a debut this morning of two new fire trucks — welcomed additions to the arsenal of firefighting equipment employed by the City of St Augustine.
Earlier today, a man convicted of making sexually explicit interstate telephone calls that threatened to injure minor children, was sentenced by Judge Marcia Morales Howard to serve 20 years in federal prison for his crimes, according to US Attorney Robert E. O’Neill.
United States Attorney Robert E. O’Neill announced to local Historic City News reporters that 64 year-old Andrew J. Hitas, Jr., a resident of Palm Coast, pled guilty to a federal charge of receiving child pornography over the Internet.
