Category: Public Safety

A bill making its way through the legislature aims to tighten the screws on those who violate an order of protection; typically awarded to the victim of domestic violence, date rape, sexual violence, stalking, and cyberstalking.

Gretl Plessinger reported to Historic City News that two area residents are in custody, without bond, each charged with capital sexual battery. An FDLE investigation found the defendants battered two female children in separate incidents.

Historic City News learned today that Deputy Charles K Simpkiss spotted what he described as a “suspicious vehicle” in the parking lot of a local business located in the 2500 block of SR-16 last night at about 11:30 p.m. and he decided to investigate.

Two men are being sought in connection with a home invasion robbery that occurred Saturday evening.

St Johns County Fire Rescue Heavy Rescue crews responded to a home in the 1000 block of Greyfield Drive in Stonehurst Plantation earlier this evening after the owner said he accidentally backed his car into his house.

NBC Nightly News chief anchor and managing editor Brian Williams may have been suspended without pay for six months when the “memory” of his Chinook helicopter being “hit and crippled by enemy fire” in Iraq in 2003, failed him; but, today, a St Johns County man is facing criminal charges for his false military service…

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Historic City News has learned that a man wearing a black and grey camouflage hoodie jacket, grey plaid shorts, and black sneakers, recently used a stolen credit card to purchase a $500 gift card from a discount department store, and police are hoping you can help identify the culprit.

When Historic City News reporters see a nearly 80-year-old man arrested and held in lieu of $200,000 bail, we scratch our heads and ask questions. When you read the answers, you may shake your head in disbelief.