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On Monday morning around 6:00 a.m., South Walton Firefighters responded to a vehicle fire on the Clyde B. Wells Bridge that closed both southbound lanes. Both soundbound lanes are back open and there are no reported injuries at this time, according to Walton County Sheriff’s Office. Officials said drivers should expect congestion in the area. Units from WCSO, Walton County Fire Rescue, and South Walton Fire District responded to the scene. Experiencing a car accident is traumatic, but when it

Miami police arrested a man over the weekend who they say shot his cousin four times following a dispute over a parking space. According to an arrest report from the Miami Police Department, 51-year-old Elder Cruz is facing one count each of attempted murder causing injury with a firearm, grand theft with a firearm and discharging a firearm in an outdoor or residential area. Miami police said officers responded to an emergency call about a man shooting a victim around

Photo by: Local10 Four people were taken to the hospital after an SUV crashed into a market in northwest Miami-Dade on Monday, authorities confirmed. It happened at Saveland Supermarket, located at 8700 NW 32nd Ave., just west of State Road 9. Miami-Dade Fire Rescue said medics transported four individuals to a local hospital, including two who were taken by a private ambulance. A Local 10 News crew arrived at the crash scene, where a white SUV with heavy front-end damage

 A 31-year-old man is charged for a fatal DUI crash last November in Escambia County. Casey Folds of Pensacola was arrested Monday on charges of: The crash happened on November 13, 2023, on Chemstrand Road. FHP says Folds was driving his Ford F150 south on Chemstrand Road, while a Dodge Charger and a Harley Davidson motorcycle were traveling north. “As the Ford approached the Charger and Harley, the right tires dropped off the pavement onto the shoulder,” FHP says in a

A 44-year-old man is charged with killing his 70-year-old mother Sunday night in Escambia County. Christopher Booth was arrested on a murder charge. He’s being held in Escambia County Jail without bond. The incident happened at a home in the 900-block of Fremont Avenue. According to Sheriff Chip Simmons, the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office received a call from Pensacola Police. Police told deputies that they received a call from a person from out-of-state, saying their friend may have just killed

The sheriff says three shooters are responsible for Sunday night’s shooting in Escambia County that killed two men and injured five other people. Sheriff Chip Simmons said Monday morning that the two fatal victims in the shooting outside the Marie K Young Wedgewood Community Center are men ages 21 and 24. The other shooting victims are ages 11, 22, 23, 27 and 29. The shooting happened around 8 p.m According to Sheriff Simmons, a group of people were playing dice at a

A Fort Myers woman was arrested after deputies said she was driving the wrong way on I-75 while under the influence in Lee County. Susan Bommarito-Malta, 53, was reportedly arrested after Florida troopers caught her driving south on the northbound lane of I-75 at Mile Marker 138. Troopers were able to stop her before any accidents were caused. Bommarito-Malta was arrested and charged with DUI (0.15 or higher or with a person under 18 in the vehicle). According to documents,

An Aventura man is facing two felony charges after throwing his dog and striking one of the city’s police officers who was mediating a dispute between dog owners, according to an arrest report. According to the Aventura Police Department, the incident happened at around 5:30 p.m. Sunday at Waterways Dog Park, located at 3401 NE 213th St.’ The police report states that officers had been called to the park amid an “incident” between Mordechai Oaknin, 68, and another dog owner.

A 48-year-old man was arrested Sunday on accusations that he forced a 14-year-old girl to perform oral sex on him while he was conducting some kind of work at her home in Opa-locka, authorities said. According to the suspect’s arrest report, the alleged sexual battery occurred Saturday afternoon at a home on Ali Baba Avenue. Kissoon Puran, of Hialeah Gardens, was arrested the following day on charges of sexual battery on a minor and attempted false imprisonment. According to his

 Two 13-year-olds have been arrested and charged with burglary after allegedly breaking into cars near a Deltona restaurant, according to deputies. The Volusia County Sheriff’s Office said they used their Live 911 technology to quickly locate the teens. The system, which has been used in the resolution of many investigations, allows deputies to hear the 911 caller in real-time. Body camera footage shows a portion of the call, where the person on the phone describes the suspects. Shortly after, the

A Florida mom was arrested after she allegedly used an electric screwdriver to drive a nail into her 12-year-old daughter’s buttocks, according to the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office.  Jaclyn Goszczynski, 40, was arrested on Friday and charged with child abuse after the alleged incident that unfolded on July 20.  According to an arrest affidavit, Goszczynski and three children were hanging picture frames when she approached her 12-year-old daughter and asked her, “Have you ever been screwed in the a**?” That’s

What started as an armed home invasion, soon turned into a police pursuit, ending at a gas station in Pembroke Pines at the intersection of Pines Boulevard and University Drive with two robbery suspects in custody. At approximately 6:05 a.m., on Monday, a woman called 911 stating that a man entered her home armed with a knife. “They just update to a 41 home invasion. Advised a male broke into her house with a knife,” a woman said over the