FDA looks to reduce refills on pain medications

Although there are many opponents to such a measure, the US Food and Drug Administration recently announced that it will be tightening restrictions on prescription painkillers this year which is likely to have a far reaching impact.

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Two sex predator bills headed to Senate Judiciary Committee

Following recently published accounts of a virtual “revolving door” of convicted sexual predators and sex offenders in St Johns County, Historic City News readers have expressed outrage at existing loopholes in the Jimmy Ryce Act; named after a 9-year-old boy who was raped and murdered in South Florida in 1995.

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Culhane’s honors military with special discounts

Culhane’s Irish Pub owner, Lynda Culhane, announced to Historic City News that Culhane’s will conduct a special promotion this month to honor our military, our veterans, and the military heritage of North Florida. Culhane’s is a proud, and long-standing, corporate affiliate member of the Navy League at Mayport, and is open for lunch and dinner…

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Cathedral Parish commemorates founding with new book

Father Thomas S. Willis, rector of St Augustine’s Cathedral Parish, announced to local Historic City News reporters that Cathedral Basilica of Saint Augustine is marking the 450th anniversary of its founding with a new book, “America’s First Parish: The Cathedral Basilica of Saint Augustine”.

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