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Photo by: uc breaking news One person was pulled from a vehicle and taken to the hospital after a car plunged into a Lehigh Acres canal late Wednesday evening. Lee County deputies, along with fire crews, responded to the scene on Williams Avenue, off Lee Boulevard and east of Homestead Road, just before midnight. The car was barely above the water when responders arrived. The scene was cleared around 2:30 a.m. We have reached out to the Lee County Sheriff’s

A Holt woman is in the Okaloosa County jail, accused of hitting a Florida Highway Patrol trooper and leaving the scene. 35-year-old L F is charged with hit ‘n run: failing to remain on the scene of a crash involving injury. Investigators said f was westbound on Interstate 10 around 6:00 Monday night. For some reason, her SUV drifted off the side of the road and sideswiped a state trooper’s car. Trooper R K was conducting a traffic stop and

A 45-year-old Umatilla man was killed in a two-vehicle crash on Wednesday afternoon, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. Troopers said the crash happened on County Road 42 at the intersection of Penley Lane in Altoona around 3:04 p.m. According to a crash report, a Honda Accord was traveling west on County Road 42, approaching Penley Lane. At the same time, a GMC Sierra was traveling east on County Road 42, approaching Penley Lane. Troopers said the Accord traveled into

Video shows an arson suspect setting a dumpster on fire in Little Havana early Wednesday in an incident that knocked out power to two businesses. The incident happened in the 700 block of Southwest 8th Street, where officers responded shortly before 6 a.m. after receiving a call of a disturbance, Miami Police officials said. Surveillance video shows a person leaning in the dumpster and setting the fire before walking away. Officers found the dumpster on fire and Miami Fire Rescue

A motorcycle crash in Union County leaves one dead. A motorcycle rider traveling westbound with a passenger on State Road 100 from State Road 121 was declared dead after crashing near Lake Butler, Wednesday afternoon. Union County deputies said the crash occurred around 3 p.m. and officials from the Florida Highway Patrol said the motorist flipped over on East Main Street and Southeast Sixth Avenue near Lake Butler Hospital. According to officials, the motorist lost control of the vehicle and

Photo by: fox4now An explosion at the Holiday Inn in Clewiston injured one man staying at the hotel. According to police the man was unloading fire suppression equipment when part of the equipment exploded. Clewiston Police Chief Thomas Lewis said they are still working on what exactly caused the equipment to explode. You can see in the surveillance video at the hotel there were red boxes that the man was checking. One of the boxes exploded blowing him backward. The

Photo by: wfla A shooting in St. Petersburg left one person in the hospital on Wednesday night, the St. Pete Police Department said. The shooting occurred around 8:10 p.m. in the parking lot near 2901 Tyrone Boulevard across the street from Buffalo Wild Wings. Police said there was an altercation at a vehicle involving the victim, who was described as a “young man.” The manager of the restaurant told WFLA’s Marilyn Parker he was outside when he heard two gunshots.

A Fruitland Park woman was arrested for battery when her boyfriend drove her to a police station for punching him over affair allegations. Officers were flagged down by a man in the parking lot of the Leesburg Police Department, located at 115 E. Magnolia St., around 11:56 a.m. Saturday, according to an arrest report from the LPD. The man approached the secured area of the department, saying that he needed help. Officers spoke to the man who explained he was

A deputy’s gun went off while at the iThink Amphitheater in West Palm Beach on Tuesday, with a fragment hitting a woman, according to the agency. The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office (PBSO) said one of its deputies went to the restroom at the amphitheater and when she removed her duty belt, her gun hit the ground and went off. PBSO said a woman a few stalls down was struck with a fragment but did not need any medical attention.

Photo by: Hearst Owned Authorities are investigating after two people were ejected from a vehicle in the 7300 block of South Dixie Highway early Wednesday. The West Palm Beach Police Department confirmed Wednesday afternoon that one person is dead, and another person was critically injured. The serious crash involved a box truck and an SUV. The police department said neither occupant of the box truck was wearing a seat belt. Officials said the driver and passenger in the truck were

A 7-year-old boy is OK after he was hit by a car while getting on his school bus Wednesday morning in Manatee County. The boy was hit at 8:10 a.m. at the intersection of 61st Avenue East and 5th Street East. Troopers say a Manatee County school bus was stopped on 61st Avenue E. with its red lights flashing and its stop bar and signs deployed. As the bus was stopped, a 23-year-old Bradenton woman made a left turn from 5th

 A Florida woman, who became enraged, because she did not get sauce from Raising Cane’s, was arrested after confronting a manager at the fast-food restaurant, police say. According to an arrest affidavit, Largo Police said M K, 31, became upset after placing a mobile pick-up order and discovering that she was missing eight packs of Raising Cane’s sauce. Police said that K called the restaurant on Sunday night and said she was returning to pick up the sauce. K arrived