PONTE VEDRA, Fla. -- Rusty Headley has called the Ocean Grove condominium community home for the past six years, but now he feels it is pulling the welcome mat from under him.

"I feel unwanted here," he said. 

Headley is a renter. Recently, he applied for a parking permit and...more was denied. The reason surprised him.

"I was told I could not have one because I was a renter and rented here illegally," said Headley.

His landlord Bernard Snyder, a retired auto designer, said a few months ago the property management company told him he needed a permit to rent the condo to his tenant.

"It just seems unjust that they would start enforcing this rule," said Snyder. "I'm going to be required to evict him ...after he has been there six years as a perfect tenant."

Snyder said his tenant is not the only one being told he may have to move. "I understand there are 18 others," he added. 

Ocean Grove condominiums are managed by

 
Habitat for Humanity of St. Augustine/St. Johns County is pleased to be participating in the 2012 PLAYERS Championship Birdies for Charity program. This unique community-based fundraising initiative is held in conjunction with THE PLAYERS Championship at TPC Sawgrass, May 7-13, 2012.

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. -- The gunshot wound to the head that killed a man at an apartment complex Thursday evening was not self-inflicted.

A statement released Friday afternoon from the St. Johns County Sheriff's Office said the case is still under investigation and that a...more preliminary autopsy showed the cause of death was a gunshot wound to the head and that it was not self-inflicted.

The man has been identified by SJCSO Corp. Catherine Payne as as Daryl Atkins, 59.

Deputies said the incident started at about 8:30 Thursday night when a crisis team, hostage negotiators and a SWAT team  responded to a call that a man at The Fountains condominiums off A1A North was "despondent."
The man was inside a home armed with a rifle that he fired at deputies,  according to SJCSO Sgt. Chuck Mulligan.

He said deputies found the body after sending a robot to the man's door. The standoff lasted about three hours.

The standoff rattled the condo

 
 
Toll Brothers, the nation’s leading builder of luxury homes, is offering new home buyers special savings and incentives during its statewide Open House Sales Event at communities throughout Florida from Saturday, Jan. 14 through Sunday, Jan. 22.  In northeast Florida, Toll Brothers is building single-family homes and estate homes in Coastal Oaks at Nocatee.

Did you know that Tim Tebow was a very good baseball player at Nease High School?  He once hit a home run while the First Coast News cameras were rolling.

During his junior season on the football field, Tebow won a Star Performer Award (now known as the Athlete of the Week award).  In...more typical Tebow fashion, he wanted to share the award with his teammates, so he told them to "hang the plaque in the weightroom or something."

The video clip attached to this story includes some great video from Tim Tebow's time as an athlete at Nease High School.

It was like old times at Nease on Friday.
But it wasn’t like the last time the Panthers played Ponte Vedra.
Bud Beech was back in Nease’s gym, coaching a tight game with a healthy contingent of noisy students.
This time, Beech was standing in front of the Ponte Vedra bench, and he...more wasn’t celebrating Nease’s 53-44 win.
The Panthers shut down their former coach by shutting down his son, Beau. It’s the exact opposite of what happened in the teams’ previous meeting. The Sharks won the Dec. 1 game 64-60 when Beech scored 45 points.
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The St Johns Sheriff’s Office is asking the public to help  identify a burglary suspect.
According to a statement from SJSO spokesperson, Kevin Kelshaw, a male suspect is wanted in connection with the burglary of four Ponte Vedra Beach businesses Nov. 30.
The release states a...more Woody’s Restaurant, Domino’s Pizza, Beach Cleaner and Player’s Café in the Winn-Dixie shopping center were entered by a male suspect uses a large brick to break windows and gain access. The suspect entered the businesses between 3:30 a.m. and 4 a.m., though nothing was reported missing from any of the businesses.
The suspect was captured on surveillance video and is describes as a white male, wearing blue jeans, a multi-colored striped hooded sweatshirt and white tennis shoes. The suspect was also spotted on surveillance video in a late model, dark colored possible Honda Civic.
Anyone with information is asked to call the St Johns County Sheriff’s Office at 904-209-3984 or you can

Tickets to see five-time Grammy winning blues artist Robert Cray go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday at the Ponte Vedra Concert Hall and St. Augustine Amphitheatre box offices, according to a news release.
The Robert Cray Band is to perform “an intimate blues set” at the Ponte Vedra Concert Hall...more on Tuesday, Feb. 14.
Cray is an American blues guitarist, composer and singer who has opened for such major stars as Eric Clapton, according to the release.
In 2011, he was inducted to the Blues Hall of Fame.
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PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. -- Nobody was in the TPC Clubhouse this morning when the fire alarm sounded, but firefighters found the culprit.

According to St. Johns County Fire Rescue spokesman Jeremy Robshaw, the fire alarm rang at about 2:45 a.m.

Firefighters initially found no...more sign of fire or smoke, but after a quick search they spotted smoke coming under the door of a banquet storage room, Robshaw said.

In the room was heavy smoke, but no fire, and the sprinkler system had activated.

The fire appears to have started in a laundry bin, firefighters believe, and was extinguished by the sprinkler system.

The firefighters removed the bin from the room and began working to clear the smoke and water from the area.

Robshaw said there is "very limited" structural damage since the fire was contained to a laundry bin and the sprinkler system worked properly, but there is about $15,000 in water damage.

The cause so far is listed