St Johns County News

Instead of continuing to use property taxes to pay for fire services, St. Johns County commissioners are formulating a new plan in which they'd charge people fees based on the size of their homes.

The St. Johns County Commission voted unanimously to kill the proposed fire assessment fee, at least until next year.

St. Johns County is one of the fastest growing counties in America. However, its fire-rescue department is having a hard time keeping up with the growth.

The new fire assessment bills arriving in the mail this past week -- with some still on the way -- are not just confusing homeowners, even county officials say they are too complicated.

A St. Johns County man was recently arrested after being accused of committing a sex crime at a sleepover.

The St. Johns County Board of County Commissioners is considering starting a Municipal Service Benefit Unit to fund fire services in St.

Two people are dead and three others are hospitalized after a crash on I-95 near International Golf Parkway Thursday morning.

News Four people injured in a three car accident. Two of them are in serious condition after the Florida Highway Patrol says the driver tried to elude police.

Emmanuel Head expressed remorse for killing former college student, Thomas Grayber, before he was sentenced this morning in St.

Christa Tedder holds her newly adopted pug that she and her two bogs named Buttercup at the St.

The fish slipped with Smith attached, and the fall broke his neck. Doctors feared permanent impairment at the outset.

Three St. Johns County men were jailed and a 14-year-old St. Augustine Beach girl was hospitalized after she passed out from drinking Saturday morning at a house party, deputies said.

A long-time bail bondsman in St. Augustine has been charged with two misdemeanors after an undercover investigation by the St.

High demand for 'designer dogs' has St. Johns County planning for big adoption event

"In 1862 Robert Smalls, a 23-year-old slave, commandeered Planter, a 147-foot long Confederate transport steamer, from Charleston's Southern Wharf," states a news release from the National Park Service.

A St. Johns County man was flown to Baptist Medical Center in Jacksonville Tuesday after St.

Fire fighters search through the remains of a home on the St. Johns River that burnt on Monday, July 7, 2008.

The woman thought to have been abducted at gunpoint by her husband this morning in Brooksville has been found at Flagler Hospital in St.

A homeless man walking along State Road 16 at the edge of the Royal St.Augustine Golf Course made a gruesome discover just after 10am Friday.

ST. JOHNS COUNTY, Fla. -- A man's body was found Friday morning near a retention pond in St.