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Photo by: wsvn A fire Monday morning tore through a South Florida home. The incident happened along 37th Avenue and Northwest 210th Terrace in Miami Gardens. Flames burned through the roof and created a big hole. There was damage to the entire house. It’s not yet clear what sparked the fire. Fire accidents can cause devastating damage and life-changing injuries, leaving victims overwhelmed with recovery and financial burdens. Ovadia Law Group is dedicated to helping you navigate the complexities of

A Dixie County crash left two people dead and one person in the hospital Sunday night as the state started to feel the effects of Debby. According to Florida Highway Patrol, an SUV was traveling down U.S. 19 north of 483rd Avenue just before 9:30 p.m. Witnesses said the vehicle appeared to have lost control due to inclement weather and the wet roadway. After losing control, the vehicle struck a guardrail in the center median and overturned. The 38-year-old female

Photo by: (HCSO) A semi-truck lost control and was overturned into the Tampa Bypass Canal in Hillsborough County, resulting in the driver’s death. The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office (HCSO) reported that around 3 a.m. Monday, a semi-truck drove over the guard rail of a bypass canal, off of I-75. Officials stated that the HCSO dive team responded to extract the truck out of the canal while receiving tornado and hurricane warnings due to Tropical Storm Debby. HCSO reported around 10:20

Debby turned deadly as it continues to roar across Florida after it made landfall as a Category 1 hurricane Monday. Authorities reported that a 13-year-oldboy died after a tree fell on a mobile home located southwest of Gainesville, Florida. Officials reported other deaths as Debby moved inland. A truck driver died early Monday on Interstate 75 in the Tampa area after he lost control of his tractor trailer, which flipped over a concrete wall and dangled over water before the cab dropped into

 Authorities have released the name of a Florida sheriff’s deputy killed in what officials called an ambush shooting that wounded two other deputies as they tried to reach him after all responded to a disturbance in a home. Master Deputy Sheriff Bradley Michael Link, 28, died “heroically serving his community and fellow deputies” after the gunfire Friday night at a home in rural Eustis, Lake County Sheriff Peyton Grinnell said Saturday in a post on the office’s Facebook page. Two

Photo by: North Collier Fire Rescue District The North Collier Fire Rescue District extracted a person from a vehicle after a rollover crash in Collier County Monday morning. According to reports, the crash happened at Livingston Road and Immokalee Road around 1:50 a.m. Heavy Rescue 48, Battalion 45 and Collier County EMS responded to the scene, where they performed an extraction for one person who was stuck in the car. The driver was taken to the hospital. At this time,

A teenage boy died in Levy County as Hurricane Debby made landfall as a Category 1 storm in northern Florida, officials said Monday morning. The 13-year-old was inside of a home in Fanning Springs and died when the tree fell on top of the house, officials with Levy County Emergency Management said. He was a student at Chiefland/Middle High School and living with his grandparents at the time; both were home but uninjured, sheriff’s officials said. The storm is also

Key West police arrested an out-of-town visitor over the weekend after they said he followed a woman into a bathroom at a popular restaurant, cornered her and exposed himself. Robert Jake Farnsworth, 43, of Arlington, Virginia, is facing charges of false imprisonment, battery and indecent exposure. According to police, the incident happened at around 7:30 p.m. Saturday at Jimmy Buffett’s Margaritaville, located at 500 Duval St. An arrest report stated that Farnsworth, whose occupation is listed as “military,” followed the

An arrest has been made in connection with the death of a Miami woman whose body was discovered inside her apartment over two months ago, authorities confirmed Monday. According to Officer Mike Vega, a spokesman for the Miami Police Department, officers received a call just before 8:30 a.m. on May 28 about an unresponsive woman who was found inside an apartment building located near the 400 block of Northeast 82nd Street. Police said 41-year-old Sujelry Brito, who lived alone, was found dead

 A 31-year-old man was arrested over the weekend after Miami Gardens police say he slapped a girl outside her home before spitting in an officer’s face. According to his arrest report, the incidents occurred just before 10 p.m. Saturday. Miami Gardens police said Dmytro Krakhmalny, of Ukraine, approached the girl in the front yard of her home and slapped her in the face. The victim told police that he then grabbed onto her, at which time she screamed out to

A Weeki Wachee man was killed, and five other people were injured in a Pasco County crash on Friday, authorities said. According to a Florida Highway Patrol report, the 61-year-old Weeki Wachee driver in a Honda Accord was traveling westbound on Hodza Street at about 9:47 p.m. A Dodge Ram pickup driven by a 51-year-old Brooksville woman traveling northbound on U.S. Highway 41. A third driver, a 50-year-old Brooksville man, was driving a GMC Envoy northbound on U.S. 41 behind

The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office arrested a prior Riverview High School teacher and coach for sexual battery and unlawful sexual activity with a minor on Friday. HCSO said that David Patrick Coffey, 34, was using social media apps to have inappropriate conversations with the victim. Detectives later learned that Coffey and the victim would meet up on “numerous separate occasions” for sexual interactions. Coffey was hired by Hillsborough County Public Schools in 2015 as a Social Studies teacher and coached