Category: Public Safety

In the stretch of San Marco Avenue between Picolata Road (SR-16) south to West Castillo Drive (Visitor’s Information Center) there are 125 free parking spaces; however, in the coming months, the Florida Department of Transportation estimates approximately 50 of those spaces are certain to be removed to meet current roadway design standards.

According to then St Augustine Chief of Police, Loran Lueders, 45-year-old artist and resident, Jordie Hudson, was last seen leaving the Giggling Gator on King Street at 2:45 a.m. on April 9, 2016. A year later, the man convicted of her murder is on his way to prison to spend the next 50 years of…

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Two semi-trucks collided with a passenger vehicle this evening on I-95 near the International Golf Parkway interchange, according to a report received from St Johns County Fire Rescue spokesman Lt. Jeremy Robshaw. Upon arrival, crews found multiple overturned vehicles and two patients entrapped as a result of the accident. Crews extricated the two patients without…

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After completing an independent criminal investigation considering allegations of “criminal misconduct” between a Flagler County deputy sheriff and a female inmate, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement presented their findings to the State Attorney for the Seventh Judicial Circuit, R. J. Larizza.

St Johns County Fire Rescue reported to Historic City News today that they were able to save a historic home from fire in the 500 block of CR-13A. The home was reportedly built in the 1800’s.

St Augustine Police made no arrest after 29-year-old Jeffrey “Stephen” Lee was shot and killed in the yard of an Arricola Avenue apartment on Davis Shores in the early evening of Thursday night, March 9, 2017.

Communications Specialist Sarah Hand told local Historic City News reporters this morning that the St. Johns River Water Management District has issued a Water Shortage Warning for all of St. Johns County effective immediately.

This morning, the St. Augustine Police Department asked the public for assistance in identifying three thieves that entered Old Towne Liquors, located at 135 San Marco Avenue and stole several bottles of vodka last month.