Category: Public Safety

Around noon today, a 37-year-old St Augustine man was taken to the hospital after being apparently bitten by a shark off St Augustine Beach near “E” Street, according to a report received by Historic City News this afternoon.

Historic City News reporters were on the scene of a lunchtime crash, one block north of SR-312 on US-1, that sent a mother and her daughter to Flagler Hospital with serious injuries; after the Jeep struck a pick-up truck, bounced off a center curb, and went flying into the air — landing on the driver’s…

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In what is turning out to be a week of vehicle-vs-cyclist crashes, Historic City News learned that late last night, another SUV struck a motorcyclist; this time on A1A North in Ponte Vedra Beach, according to Sheriff’s representative Corporal Catherine Payne.

A bicyclist in Palm Valley, who investigators tell Historic City News collided with a semi-truck earlier this afternoon, was transported by air ambulance to Shands Jacksonville Medical Center with serious injuries; according to a report from Sheriff’s Corporal Catherine Payne.

Shortly before midnight this morning, 40-year-old Anastasia Mosquito Control District commissioner, Janice Marie Bequette, was arrested by the Florida Highway Patrol and booked into the St Johns County Detention Facility; charged with driving under the influence of alcohol.

Historic City News reporters received a reminder from Florida Department of Law Enforcement Commissioner Gerald Bailey that this year marks the 12th anniversary of the inception of Florida’s AMBER Alert Plan; which gets the word out statewide when a child is abducted.

An 83-year-old Ponte Vedra Beach man is in custody today in lieu of $21,000 bail after Historic City News reporters learned that he struck and seriously injured a bicyclist in the 300 block of Ponte Vedra Boulevard last night.