One shot at Interstate hotel during police operation

A fugitive, wanted in connection with charges of aggravated sexual battery against a child under the age of 15, has been shot and killed at the door to his motel room on SR-16 at I-95 by members of a joint local-federal law enforcement task force attempting to execute an arrest warrant.

Public Safety

HCN Reader spots driver involved in possible battery

When one observant Historic City News reader was waiting downtown to pick his teenage son up from work, the driver of a burgundy red Ford Mustang coupe sped up to a Flagler-College-aged female on the east-sidewalk of Cordova Street, threw open the passenger door, and began yelling for her to get into the car.

Public Safety

Confederate Memorial Advisory Committee first meeting

The Confederate Memorial Contextualization Advisory Committee will hold its inaugural meeting on Wednesday, February 7th.  Historic City News readers and the public are invited to attend in The Alcazar Room of the St Augustine City Hall, located at 75 King Street.

Government

Sheriff attempts misappropriation of law enforcement funds

Historic City News learned Friday that St Johns County Sheriff David B. Shoar has apparently attempted to misappropriate $10,000.00 in public funds making a material misstatement that the use of those funds by a third-party organization complies with the requirements of state law.  To further conceal the misappropriation sought by the sheriff, the request appears…

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Government

Skyscraper in St Augustine sold to local hotelier

Depending on how long you have lived in St Augustine, Historic City News readers will refer to St Augustine’s only “skyscraper”, a six-story bank building located at 24 Cathedral Place, by a different name.  But, as of Tuesday, January 30, 2018, the current event venue with individual office spaces above, has been sold.

Business

Creating unrest and destroying racial healing

For well over fifty-years, the residents of St Augustine have been healing from the physical and emotional wounds of the civil rights movement; in no small part due to the media focus on racial segregation and the economic plight of minorities here — and across the south.

Community