Historic City News received word that in cooperation between the US Coast Guard, St Johns County Fire Rescue and the St Augustine Fire Department, a shrimper at sea, about a mile offshore, was able to be successfully airlifted from harm’s way.
With Halloween festivities ramping up and countless children planning to go trick-or-treating next week, our friends at the FDLE Office of Public Information, Gretl Plessinger, Jessica Cary and Jeremy Burns, remind Historic City News subscribers to stay safe in the coming days.
According to a report from the St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office, received by Historic City News last night, a residence on Oxford Drive, off of Royal St Augustine Parkway, became a crime scene after law enforcement detectives found the remains of an elderly man and a seriously injured woman reortedly with “cut or stab wounds”.
Earlier this morning Historic City News learned that an anonymous source sent a message through a social media network to a student at St Augustine High School. The student shared the message out of concern and “several units” responded, according to a press release from the St Johns County Sheriff’s Office.
Historic City News was notified by spokesperson Kelly Wilson that St Johns County Emergency Management is monitoring a potential tropical cyclone centered about 620 miles southwest of the mouth of the Mississippi River. The potential tropical cyclone is moving at nearly 8 mph.
Earlier today, Noreen Nickola-Williams, Director of the Office of Public Health Practice and Policy for the Florida Department of Health in St. Johns County, alerted Historic City News to an increase in mosquito-borne disease in St Johns County.
This afternoon, Joseph Frank Bova II, who turns 32-years-old in December, was convicted of first-degree murder after a jury in Bunnell listened to evidence presented during a five-day trial. The Flagler County jury deliberated only 39-minutes before returning a guilty verdict.
Tuesday morning at about 10:00 a.m., Florida Highway Patrol information officer MSgt. Dylan L. Bryan reported to Historic City News that a pilot made a hard landing on takeoff from the Northeast Florida Regional Airport.
