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The mother of a 4-year-old girl was arrested Monday and accused of aggravated child neglect after the child accidentally shot herself last week. According to the Clay County Sheriff’s Office, deputies were called to the scene at 2410 Clover Ave. in Middleburg on Wednesday. The preliminary investigation by CCSO detectives revealed that the child accessed the parent’s handgun and accidentally discharged it. After an in-depth investigation with the State Attorney’s Office and the Department of Children and Families, CCSO investigators

Photo by: Palm Beach County Fire Rescue A construction worker is hospitalized after falling while working on the US 1 Bridge in Jupiter. Officials have not yet identified the equipment the worker was on, but confirmed that they landed on concrete. Palm Beach County Fire Rescue was dispatched to the construction site around 11 p.m. Monday. Crews used one of the cranes on scene to lift the worker from the area. Work-related injuries can disrupt your life, leaving you with

One man is dead in Alachua County after a Florida Highway Patrol trooper says he drove off the road and crashed into a ditch. Troopers say a 70-year-old man was driving a pickup truck near Northwest 218th Street in Alachua around 5:00 Monday evening when he started drifting into oncoming traffic. Troopers say he drove into a ditch and collided with a wooden fence. He was taken to UF Shands Hospital where he was pronounced dead. At Ovadia Law Group,

A 67-year-old Milton woman was killed in a crash Monday in Santa Rosa County. It happened on State Road 87 just north of State Road 89 around 1 p.m. According to FHP, a 65-year-old Milton woman drove her Honda Odyssey van off State Road 87, colliding into garbage cans, and continuing toward an embankment. The van became airborne, collided with the ground, and rolled over. The 67-year-old woman was ejected from the front passenger seat and flown to a local

Photo by: wsvn A child and a driver were transported to the hospital after they drove off Interstate 595 in Dania Beach. Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue units responded to the scene near 3201 SW 26th St., Monday afternoon. “[Truck] fell off the highway, going to be a vehicle that fell off I-595,” said a dispatcher over Broadcastify police scanner. 7Skyforce hovered above the scene, where the pickup truck involved landed on its roof. FLFR said the driver of the Ford

 A Bradenton man was hit and killed by a car while riding his bicycle near Cortez Road and 24th Street West Monday afternoon. The Florida Highway Patrol said the crash happened after 4:15 p.m. According to officials, a 23-year-old Sarasota man was driving a Chevy sedan in the center lane of Cortez Road, approaching a crosswalk.  The 45-year-old Bradenton man was riding his bike northbound crossing the crosswalk from the median, but troopers said the driver of the Chevy didn’t see the

A man is facing a manslaughter charge nearly two weeks after a fight at a bar led to the death of another man who was working security, according to the Hillsborourgh County Sheriff’s Office. HCSO said Joshua Valdibieso, who was 26 at the time and has since turned 27, was among a group of patrons involved in a fight with security on July 2 at Tally Ho Bar, Lounge & Grille off 56th St. north of Sligh Ave. Kenneth Washington, 50, intervened

 Ramón Jesurún, the head of soccer’s governing body in Colombia, was arrested amid a night of chaos at the Copa America soccer tournament in Miami Gardens. Jesurún, the president of the Colombian Football Federation and a vice president with CONMEBOL, the group that puts on Copa America, is facing two felony counts of battery on a specified official or employee. The 71-year-old also serves on the FIFA Council, a “strategic and oversight body” for soccer’s global governing body. Jesurún was booked into the

A 63-year-old Palm Coast man was airlifted to the hospital on Monday after being struck by a vehicle leaving a private driveway in Flagler County, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. Troopers said an SUV, being driven by a 40-year-old Palm Coast woman, was at a stop sign on a private driveway around 1:18 p.m. The driver made a left turn onto Palm Coast Parkway when a pedestrian ran across the road into the path of the SUV. Troopers said

Authorities are investigating after they said a New York man died Sunday when his personal watercraft collided with a boat along the Intracoastal Waterway in Miami-Dade County. Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officers said the collision occurred between a personal watercraft and a 42-foot Yellowfin center console in the Intracoastal Waterway, half a mile south of Broad Causeway, according to FWC officials. The operator of the watercraft, Zlotnyk Vladyslav, 23, was transported to shore by four good Samaritans who

A man was arrested after deputies said he stabbed another man and then stole a woman’s car on Monday. The Pasco County Sheriff’s Office said around 8:20 a.m., deputies responded to reports of the stabbing in the Gordon Drive area of Port Richey. Deputies then responded to a carjacking in the Dauvin Court area of Port Richey around 8:30 a.m., which they linked to the same suspect of the stabbing. According to PCSO, the suspect stole the woman’s car and

One man is dead and another is in custody after an early morning shooting in Opa-Locka Monday. According to Opa-Locka Police, shortly after 6 a.m., officers responded to 3050 NW 129th Street about two men engaged in a fight. When officers arrived on the scene, they found one of the men, 38-year-old Andre Lenard White, had been shot by the other man. Police said White succumbed to his injuries and was pronounced dead by Miami-Dade Fire Rescue. Both the weapon