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A 54-year-old Palm Coast man was killed early Saturday morning in a one-car crash in southern St. Johns County, the Florida Highway Patrol reported.
John R. Wicker, 54, was traveling east at a high rate of speed on State Road 206 about 1 a.m. Saturday when his 1998 BMW drove off the south shoulder of the curving road, patrol corporal Peter G. Young reported.
A big part of her life was taken from Maria Johnson two weeks ago.
Now a bizarre set of circumstances has seen another part of the St. Johns County woman’s life gone as she prepares to bury her longtime boyfriend after his death.
Johnson and Stephen Moore’s husky, named Luna, was in his care a few months ago when she flew to Europe for a family emergency. Moore, the dog’s legal owner, gave her to a friend in Jacksonville to care for when he went on a business trip, then was killed in a Nov. 21 motorcycle crash on County Road 214.
A big part of her life was taken from Maria Johnson two weeks ago.
Now a bizarre set of circumstances has seen another part of the St. Johns County woman’s life gone as she prepares to bury her longtime boyfriend after his death.
Johnson and Stephen Moore’s husky, named Luna, was in his care a few months ago when she flew to Europe for a family emergency. Moore, the dog’s legal owner, gave her to a friend in Jacksonville to care for when he went on a business trip, then was killed in a Nov. 21 motorcycle crash on County Road 214.
A 65-year old transient arrested on a bank robbery charge nearly two weeks ago in St. Augustine has been charged with two additional armed robberies.
Robert Keith Sherley is charged as the robber who was wearing a pirate hat while brandishing a knife used to threaten a gift store clerk in a January 2010 case, according to the St. Johns County Sheriff's Office.
The robber took cash from Tom's Fruits and Gifts and fled on a bicycle after slashing tires of three vehicles at the store.
A St. Johns County Sheriff's deputy has been sent to a hospital after a collision Wednesday night, according to Times-Union news partner First Coast News.
A St. Augustine police spokesman told First Coast News a woman was making a left turn onto San Carlos Avenue from Ponce De Leon Boulevard and into the path of the deputy. The deputy tried to avoid the collision but T-boned her car.
Both were sent to Flagler Hospital for injuries that were described as moderate, according to First Coast News.
Neither driver was identified in the First Coast News report.
