Posted inEditorials
Applause for new DNA collection law
Historic City News agrees with Governor Charlie Crist who is calling a new DNA collection measure a “common sense” tool in the war on crime.
Posted inGovernment
Crist signs ban on emergency response charges
Want to hear a pin drop in the county commission chambers? Just bring up the suggestion of collecting a fire tax!
Posted inBusiness
Think you automatically get a phone book?
AT&T hasn’t stopped charging businesses for advertising and enhanced listings in the white pages of the “real phone book” but Historic City News wonders how many of those advertisers are aware of a unanimous PSC decision today that allows the phone company not to distribute the white pages to telephone customers?
Posted inPublic Safety
Hernandez arrested on murder charges
Historic City News has learned that the third “Cold Case” homicide has been cleared in the past eighteen months in St. Johns County.
Posted inBusiness
Grumman wins $432 million Hawkeye contract
Northrop Grumman reported to Historic City News today that after successfully completing a Milestone C review, the E-2D Advanced Hawkeye program has received a fixed-price, incentive fee contract award from the U.S. Navy valued at $432 million.
Deputy loses son in fatal accident
St. Johns County Sheriff David Shoar, the rest of the Sheriff’s Office family and Historic City News extends condolences to Detective Charles “Kip” Brantley and his wife Cindy for the loss of their 18-year old son this morning in a single car accident.
Posted inCommunity
$100K awarded A1A Scenic Coastal Byway
Sallie O’Hara, Byway Program Administrator, reported to Historic City News today that the Friends of A1A have been awarded $100,000 for Coastal Conservation Clean-ups.
Posted inCommunity
SJRCC instructor recollects police tradition
Historic City News has learned that St. Johns River Community College instructor and St. Augustine resident George Parsons has taken his lifelong passion for law enforcement beyond the beat with his first published book, “Passing the Baton.”
