Last night Historic City News was informed by the Florida Highway Patrol that a two-vehicle crash occurred on SR-206, leaving one driver dead.  Alcohol is not suspected to have contributed to the crash.

In and out of the Putnam County Jail in a record 10-minutes, 34-year-old Loren Tiffany Bolante, the daughter of David Shoar’s former undersheriff, Joel Bolante, herself a Police Department Communications Supervisor for the City of St Augustine, was arrested in Palatka Friday on a St Johns County capias issued by Circuit Judge Howard Maltz charging her with engaging in an organized scheme to defraud, a third-degree felony.

Pursuant to Section 403.077, F.S., the Florida Department of Environmental Protection informed local Historic City News reporters that they have received the following Public Notice of Pollution for a reportable release that occurred within St Johns County.

Historic City News readers were informed prior to the July 1, 2019 effective date of the state’s new texting-while-driving law; however, during the first six-months, the Florida Highway Patrol has focused on education.  The Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles warns that time has passed.

Historic City News was called to a press conference this afternoon by State Attorney for the Seventh Judicial Circuit, RJ Larizza, who announced that two Jacksonville men have been indicted and are being held without bond, charged with first-degree murder by unlawful distribution of a controlled substance.

A well-known area charitable organization, “Flagler Cats”, who operate a non-profit spay and neuter clinic and cat rescue in Bunnell, and its director, Mari Molina, find themselves on the horns of a dilemma this morning.  In exchange for donations to her clinic, Molina allowed Flagler Beach “bingo” operator, Gregory Irwin, to conduct fundraising in the name of the charity.

Pursuant to Section 403.077, F.S., the Florida Department of Environmental Protection informed local Historic City News reporters that they have received the following Public Notice of Pollution for a reportable release that occurred within St Johns County.

Historic City News reporters learned this morning that deputies were called to the scene of a 2019 Harley-Davidson motorcycle that had been stripped and abandoned in the woods near the Shands Bridge.