Category: Public Safety

Jade Nicolay, Public Works Department Administrative Coordinator for the City of St Augustine, told local Historic City News reporters that, due to an unanticipated problem with one of the valves, the water outage for the area north of King Street has expanded.

This afternoon at 3:00 pm, Historic City News reporters will be tuned in when Special Agent in Charge, Mark R Trouville, outlines the most recent action by the Drug Enforcement Administration that includes punitive measures that will affect one pharmaceutical wholesale distributor and one major retailer.

Debra Johnson reported to Historic City News that this afternoon’s fire alarm at the Holiday Inn, located at SR-100 and I-95 in Palm Coast, may have been a false alarm, but management relocated the guests in the hotel as a precaution — and because the first two floors were flooded.

The United States Army Corps of Engineers announced this week that Historic City News readers at St Augustine Beach, and near the three borrow sources at the St Augustine inlet, will be impacted by beach renourishment beginning February 6th, and continuing through June or early July 2012.

Venerria Lucas Thomas, Director of Health and Human Services, and her staff, were recognized recently for earning St Johns County’s Family Integrity Program the second-highest ranking in the state; according to the Department of Children and Families.

Historic City News has learned that St Johns County detectives recovered the body of a woman this morning; believed to be 47 year-old Susan Raye Norris who was last seen by friends and family members on January 26th.

While Florida has been viewed as the epicenter of the nation’s pill mill epidemic, recent evidence demonstrates that the efforts of the Drug Enforcement Administration and its federal, state, and local law enforcement partners have made a significant difference.