If you’ve ever put salted peanuts into a bottle of Coca-Cola, you understand that the chemical reaction between the two will cause the contents to erupt like a volcano. If the bottle was capped, and the pressure had nowhere to go, it could explode.

Laurie Sanderson reported to Historic City News that the first total closure of the Crescent Beach Bridge is coming in about two-weeks; made necessary for steel and machinery work at the center span — part of the electrical and mechanical repairs to the drawbridge.

Spokesperson, Gretl Plessinger, informed Historic City News this afternoon that Florida Department of Law Enforcement Jacksonville Regional Operations Center Special Agent in Charge Dominick Pape has resigned his position effective next month.

Historic City News has learned that St Johns County emergency services personnel were on the scene of a chemical spill for approximately 6 hours today; attempting to mitigate the leak from a tractor-trailer that crashed while traveling south along I-95.

A New Jersey fugitive and a Pennsylvania man police say carjacked a victim in Jacksonville, were taken into custody this morning after being spotted driving the stolen vehicle on I-95 in St Johns County, according to a report received by Historic City News.

St Augustine Public Works personnel are in the process of cleaning a section of St George Street that police say was contaminated by an Atlanta man earlier today as he sprayed a yet undetermined liquid on the doors and windows of businesses located along the street.

Historic City News reporters in St Augustine were notified that shortly before 5:00 a.m. this morning, several guests of the Days Inn, at I-95 and 2550 SR-16, reported that they observed strange activity and smells coming from Room 244 — the night manager led deputies to the room to find a clandestine methamphetamine lab.