Saturday was a special day for Historic City News, we celebrated 17 years since registering the historiccity.com domain name and publishing our very first e-mail edition.

Jennifer Tesori announced to local Historic City News reporters today that members of St. Augustine Independent Restaurant Association have presented $38,950 to the Boys & Girls Club of St. Augustine.

Flagler College reported to Historic City News this morning that the inaugural meeting of the Hospitality and Tourism Advisory Board was held on Monday, February 27, 2017.

U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Corrigan has sentenced 63-year-old Jose Salvador Lantigua to 14 years in federal prison for bank fraud and conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud. His wife, Daphne Simpson, was sentenced to 5 years’ probation for her role, but she had already served 17 months of pretrial detention. Both will also be ordered to make complete restitution to the victims of the charged offenses.

Historic City News has learned that, in a unanimous three-judge panel of the 3rd District Court of Appeals in Miami, drivers using the San Francisco-based ridesharing service UBER are independent contractors and not employees.

St. Johns County Circuit Judge Howard Maltz has reached his decision in the Bert J. Harris Jr. Private Property Rights Protection Act lawsuit filed against the City of St Augustine after the Planning and Zoning Board, Historic Architectural Review Board, and city commission all denied Donna Wendler, her husband Scott, and Wendler Properties, the right to demolish decrepit, aging buildings on their King Street property.