Historic City News learned that traffic has resumed in northwest St Johns County this morning after a man was struck and killed while attempting to cross the traffic lanes of northbound I-95 near International Golf Parkway at mile marker 324. He was trying to assist his daughter-in-law, 61-year-old Patricia Ann Harris, who resides at 2925 7th Street, north of SR-16 in St Augustine, with her disabled vehicle when the crash occurred; at about 5:33 a.m. this morning.

At about 3:00 p.m. this afternoon, Sergeant Catherine Payne informed Historic City News reporters that the sheriff’s office had been called to assist with a suspicious incident in the Guana Tolomato Matanzas National Estuarine Research Reserve as forestry workers were wrapping up today’s scheduled control burn.

Historic City News received the following update from Mark Samson, spokesman for the St Augustine Police Department, to inform readers about recent calls and arrests made by the local police.

Following recently published accounts of a virtual “revolving door” of convicted sexual predators and sex offenders in St Johns County, Historic City News readers have expressed outrage at existing loopholes in the Jimmy Ryce Act; named after a 9-year-old boy who was raped and murdered in South Florida in 1995.