Just before midnight, in the wee hours of Thursday morning, Historic City News was informed of a fatal crash on CR-208, just east of Joe Ashton Road. St Johns County Sheriff’s deputies responded to the emergency 911 call, placed by the driver of the vehicle involved.

Historic City News can’t avoid reporting when “something bad” happens; as BBC reporter George Orwell once explained, “Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.” However, an incident involving personnel from the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office on Sunday restores our faith that there actually are some happy endings out there.

In what may go down as the most ill-conceived idea in the history of bone-head moves by a new city commissioner, Todd Neville used the last five minutes of the regular commission meeting on Monday, September 14, 2015, to launch an attack on Historic City News claiming our report of campaign contributions taken by Neville from David Corneal, his son, Seth Corneal, and Corneal’s lawyer in a high-profile PUD rezoning application, Ellen Avery-Smith; constituted a defamatory attack on himself, a condemnation of the process of local government, and was published maliciously.

Tis the season for scoundrels and cheats to take advantage of innocent victims and Historic City News wants to be certain that our readers are aware of some of their most common scams.  Many of the tricks that are played out today over the Internet, are merely adaptations of cons that have been run for many years.