Category: Public Safety

Today, Historic City News was informed that Commissioner of Education Richard Corcoran lauded St Johns County for joining the Guardian Program to protect our students. There are now 33 counties participating in the Guardian Program and another 15 who have expressed interest.

In a report received from St Augustine Police Public Information Officer Cecilia Aiple, Historic City News learned of an arrest that occurred last night after a St Johns County deputy stopped a vehicle inside the city limits.

The Florida Highway Patrol reported a single-vehicle crash to Historic City News at about 10:30 p.m. Saturday night.  The driver, and only occupant, was killed in the collision according to the traffic homicide incident report.

Historic City News received the report Saturday morning at about 10:00 a.m. after the driver of a dark-colored sedan struck two bicyclists, leaving them to die on the side of Race Track Road as he sped off westbound on the crowded highway.  Deputies spent the better part of the day investigating the traffic homicide before…

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Captured this grisly familiar scene for Historic City News after yet another crash on SR-A1A.  This one occurred around 8:15 p.m. this evening, just north of R. B. Hunt Elementary School. 

Historic City News was informed at about 9:00 p.m. Sunday evening that a motorcycle operator was killed in a collision with a 1992 Jeep Wrangler, as the vehicle attempted to make a U-turn on US-1 at Moses Creek Boulevard.

Just after 5:00 p.m. this evening, the grandmother of 15-month-old Oliver Kevin Aitken was booked into the St Johns County Detention Facility after she told police that she placed methadone from another person’s prescription into the child’s prescribed allergy medication bottle, then unknowingly gave it to her grandchild.

Historic City News was notified that a traffic crash Thursday afternoon on Racetrack Road and Veterans Parkway, has crews still working to get the intersection back in order.