In October 2006, Judge Edward Hedstrom overruled the 8-4 jury recommendation that Justin Mertis Barber should be executed; imposing a lesser sentence of life in prison, without parole, for the 2002 murder of his wife, April — but, today, a different judge refused his motion to be granted a new trial.
A Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office Assistant Chief was arrested and taken to jail in St Johns County early Saturday morning after he crashed his 2005 Mercedes 4 door sedan into a tractor trailer on the I-95 exit ramp at SR-206 at about 12:48 a.m., according to a report received by Historic City News today.
Historic City News has learned that shortly after 10:00 p.m. last night, St Augustine Beach police and St Johns County traffic homicide detectives were called to the scene of Floridian Avenue at SR-A1A to investigate a single-vehicle-vs-pedestrian collision that left a local woman dead.
A 27-year-old Neptune Beach man was arrested, and released, yesterday; accused by St Augustine Police of stopping his motorcycle on the Bridge of Lions and beating a passing pedestrian on Sunday, April 7, 2013.
Historic City News has learned that while riding his bicycle westward on West King Street this afternoon, 63-year-old Clifford Wayne Johnson, Sr., was struck and killed when he pulled into the path of an oncoming vehicle.
Laurie Sanderson reported the following St Augustine and St Johns County locations to Historic City News where the Florida Department of Transportation will be conducting roadwork that is expected to have an impact on driving, beginning this morning and continuing through the coming week.
Over two-dozen reports of burglarized vehicles came in to Sheriff’s dispatchers early this morning; keeping deputies and St Augustine Beach police busy interviewing victims and witnesses, collecting evidence, and searching for those responsible for Thursday’s crime spree.
For the third time in the past thirty days, and twice in the past ten days, a Flagler County bicyclist has been struck by a motorist; this time, the victim was a 75-year-old Palm Coast man, according to information received by Historic City News from the Florida Highway Patrol.
