Saturday morning, when the parents of a young girl left their daughter in the care of 67-year-old Joseph Larry Baggett, they never expected what they would learn when they returned to pick her up.
A 42-year-old man is being sought in connection with the financial exploitation of two elderly Ponte Vedra Beach residents earlier this year, according to an alert received by local Historic City News reporters in St Augustine this afternoon.
Administrator Michele M Leonhart informed Historic City News reporters that for the first time ever, the Drug Enforcement Administration has revoked the ability of stores within a large national chain to handle or distribute controlled substances such as oxycodone and hydrocodone pending a judicial proceeding.
Historic City News reporters have learned that the Florida Department of Transportation will spend $65,000 to repair the black ornamental swing gates on the Bridge of Lions that were damaged when a motorist collided with them on August 1.
United States Attorney Robert E O’Neill announced to Historic City News today that 66-year-old Charles Lee Gorish, a registered sex offender, has been charged by a federal criminal complaint with international transportation of child pornography from Florida to Canada.
Historic City News reporters in St Augustine and St Johns County have learned that the Guana Tolomato Matanzas National Estuarine Research Reserve is planning an ecological prescribed burn in the coastal strand on the west side of South Ponte Vedra Boulevard beginning today, weather permitting.
Bob Graham, a member of the federal St Augustine 450th Commemoration Commission, two-term Florida governor and 18-year US Senator, was interviewed yesterday by The Florida Current and asked to discuss what we know, and what we still don’t know, about the terrorist attacks of 9/11/2001.
The City of St Augustine reported to Historic City News that the two northbound lanes of South Castillo Drive would be closed for resurfacing operations starting at 10:00 p.m. Wednesday, September 12.
