| ST. AUGUSTINE BEACH -- The shoreline has been increasingly encroaching on Vilano Beach, but frustrated residents and coastal engineers remain at odds over what, if anything, should be done. At a meeting of the St. Augustine Port, Waterway and Beach District on Tuesday, officials from the Army Corps of Engineers laid out their plan for dredging St. Augustine Inlet and pumping sand onto St. Augustine Beach. |
| A St. Augustine couple were arrested Tuesday and charged with stealing $33,000 worth of vases from a cemetery and attempting to sell them to a salvage yard. |
| Anastasia Mosquito Control District officials looked more tired than joyful Tuesday morning after the St. Johns County Commission, in two votes, approved a zoning and land use change that clears the way to build the district's proposed $2 million, 8,000-square-foot headquarters on 9.2 acres off State Road 16. |
| District 3 School Board member Bill Mignon is the new chairman of the St. Johns County School Board following the board's annual reorganization Tuesday night. |
| The prosecution wants to put jurors behind the wheel of the same model car in which a baby died of heat exhaustion this summer to bolster their argument that the child's father must have known she was seated near him. |
| A person playing the United Nations delegate from Iran speaking at Pedro Menendez High School this weekend promised that his country was not developing nuclear weapons -- but even if it was, Iran was within its rights. |
| The St. Johns County Commission meets at 9 a.m. Tuesday in the County Auditorium, 500 San Sebastian View. |
| If ever a group of actors lived by the creed "The show must go on," it was the William C. Forbes acting troupe. |
| St. Johns County middle school students will soon find themselves on playing fields throughout the county, thanks to a group of determined parents, residents and officials. |
| This is a story of two businesses, one that decided against locating in St. Johns County and one that wishes it hadn't built here. |
| Debra Morris will gladly show you the new, friendlier looking additions to the somber assault rifles, Glocks and shotguns she sells in her store, Ace Firearms. |
| A Circuit Court jury in Flagler County Thursday returned a $5.1 million verdict in a wrongful death case stemming from a 2006 fatal collision between a fully loaded tractor-trailer and a Honda minivan. |
| A St. Augustine man charged with a life felony in a five-year-old sexual battery case is tentatively scheduled to go to trial in January. |
| A 17-year-old girl working undercover with police Wednesday was sent to 26 restaurants, bars and convenience stores to attempt to buy alcohol, leading to charges against five clerks. |
| The St. Augustine Pirate Gathering will cause a few traffic interruptions around the bayfront and the Plaza de la Constitucion on Saturday morning, the city reported Thursday. |
| Retired U.S. Navy Capt. Bob Beskind died before a veterans memorial could be built at St. Augustine Beach, but others made sure his dream didn |
| A Palatka teenager who was released from juvenile detention a few days ago after allegedly stealing a woman |
| The World Golf Hall of Fame is saying thank you to all active, reserve and retired military by offering free admission to the Hall through the end of 2009. |
| The manslaughter trial of a St. Augustine man whose 23-month-old daughter died in his locked, overheated car will begin Monday with jury selection. |
| A 27-year-old man was arrested Tuesday after a woman told police she found him and her underage daughter having sex over the weekend. |
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| Wendy W. Berger, who replaced retiring St. Johns Circuit Judge Robert K. Mathis in 2005, has submitted her application to fill a vacancy in the First District Court of Appeal. |
| After four years of planning and working to get funding, the state-of-the-art The Players Championship Boys & Girls Club, named after its largest benefactor, will break ground today. Groundbreaking is scheduled for 3 p.m. at 555 W. King St., West Augustine and is open to the public. |
| The prosecution went to great, often painful, lengths Tuesday in arguing that a father's "gross" negligence caused his 23-month-old daughter's death and that he should be found guilty of manslaughter. |
| ST. AUGUSTINE BEACH -- Half an hour after the ribbon cutting, a handful of people stood on the new boardwalk on the city's Maratea property, one of the few swaths of untouched land left on the beachside here. |
| A teenager whose arm was allegedly broken by a Hastings Youth Academy guard using "brutal, excessive force" has filed a lawsuit against the state and the company that operates the facility, his attorney said Monday. |
| Erik, 16, the latest among local Boy Scouts of America Troop 274 to earn Eagle Scout, the Boy Scout's highest honor. He was pinned at a Sunday ceremony held at the Good News Church, which sponsors the troop. |
| A woman, who fell or jumped from the State Road 312 bridge into the Matanzas River Sunday morning, survived the incident and was taken to Flagler Hospital, said St. Johns County Fire Rescue Spokesman Jeremy Robshaw. |
| J. Walter Haley, Florida Memorial College, class of 1965, remembers when the students of the black college had to come to school armed. |
| "The Awakening of St. Augustine" by Thomas Graham, may be one of the most overlooked history books about our city. Graham, a history professor (now retired) at Flagler College, wrote the book in 1978. |
| A St. Augustine teenager who was declared mentally unable to stand trial after allegedly inspiring an attack on three homeless men last year is now heading to trial after being |
| State Farm might not pull out of Florida's homeowners insurance market after all, Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty said this week, the Palm Beach Post reported. |
| A judge refused to dismiss manslaughter charges against a St. Johns woman who will be going to trial for hosting an open house party attended by two minors who later died in a car crash. |
| CAMP BLANDING JOINT TRAINING CENTER -- Rifle fire crackled in the air nearly everywhere Thursday morning as a squad of Florida Army National Guard soldiers patrolled a forest path, on the alert for improvised explosive devices and "enemy" ambushes. |
| The Queen of Soul herself, Aretha Franklin, will perform in St. Augustine on March 19 at the Amphitheatre. |
| The Echo House has stood at 100 Martin Luther King Jr. Ave. for more than a century, but its days might now be numbered -- to 88, to be exact. |
| Jean Burtin had struggled for nearly three years after first losing his right leg to amputation, then his left. |
| The U.S. District judge scheduled to sentence former St. Johns County Commission chairman Tom Manuel recused herself from the sentencing, according to court documents filed late Tuesday. |
| A St. Johns County judge on Tuesday continued his assault on the tactics of three attorneys representing Quinn Hanna Gray, saying their insistence that they have a right to make unchecked public comments "is novel, absurd, and its assertion is shocking to the Court." |
| For Caleb Mauldin, 9, this Veterans Day is special. His father, Gabe Mauldin, is stationed in the Middle East with the Navy, and in honor of him, Caleb took part in the first Veterans Memorial Park celebration with his Cub Scout troop in Northwest St. Johns County. |
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