Florida Highway Patrol Sergeant Dylan Bryan informed Historic City News that a 61-year-old Palm Coast man was struck about 7:55 a.m. this morning while he was traveling on his bicycle eastbound along Palm Coast Parkway west of Florida Park Drive.

Just after midnight this morning, Historic City News was informed that two St Johns County Sheriff’s deputies and a supervisor responded to a call for assistance at a residence on CR-204 in Hastings, where 48-year-old Billy Cullen Sapp Jr was in a rage — threatening his family, including four small children, and damaging a motor vehicle and other private property — while armed with a hammer.

Historic City News has learned that a 26-year-old St Augustine Beach man is in custody this morning in lieu of $4000 bond after being arrested by St Augustine Police on charges that he repeatedly stuck his girlfriend, trapped her in the apartment that they share, and held her against her will as she attempted to leave for work.

The US Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration announced to Historic City News today that it will delay the closure of the federal contract air traffic control tower at Northeast Florida Regional Airport at St Augustine for two more months as the agency attempts to resolve multiple legal challenges to the closure decisions.

After a day of hosting crowds that included members of some of St Augustine’s founding Minorcan families, Historic City News reporters and a troupe of authentic 16th century re-enactors, the Guana Tolomato Matanzas National Estuarine Research Reserve will undertake an ecological prescribed burn on the southern portion of the Guana Peninsula.

Public Information Officer Klare Ly announced to Historic City News that Randal Bryan Hart, the 28-year-old St Johns County man accused of stabbing his dog, Amber, and slashing her throat with a knife before dragging her into the woods to die, will be back in court Wednesday afternoon.