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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

An arrest has been made after a shooting in Dania Beach left one man hurt near a soccer rally on Saturday night. Police have identified the gunman as Luis Francisco Morales Crespo. The shooting happened around 10:30 Saturday night, BSO deputies said. This was notably near where thousands of soccer fans were gathered. The wife of the man who was hurt told NBC6 they were part of a rally in support of Colombia at the time, but police said the

Over the weekend, a Tennessee man was arrested in Panama City Beach and is now facing child sex charges. 28-year-old Telvin Buck is charged with lewd and lascivious battery on a child between the ages of 12 and 16. According to the Panama City Beach Police Department, Buck was swimming when he went up to the 14-year-old female victim and grabbed her butt as he swam by her. Police said he did this in an effort to entice the victim

Photo by: Citrus County Sheriff’s Office An Inverness man is behind bars after deputies say he led them on a chase in a U-Haul van.  According to the Citrus County Sheriff’s Office, when a deputy tried to pull over a white U-Haul van for running a stop sign at N. Page Ave. off East Norvell Bryant Highway, the driver, later identified as Michael Allen Pierce Jr., 27, took off.  Deputies say Pierce Jr. continued driving eastbound and quickly turned-on N. Croft Ave.,

Photo by: mypanhandle A man was seriously injured after he crashed his car into a tire store early Monday morning. It happened shortly before 1:30 a.m., at Super Star Tire Shop, off W. 15th Street, near Florida Ave. According to Panama City officials, the driver was unresponsive when first responders arrived. He was transported to the hospital with life-threatening injuries. Car accidents can be devastating, causing injuries, financial strain, and emotional trauma. At Ovadia Law Group, our team of experienced

Gunfire tore through a banquet hall in Northwest Miami-Dade, sending a man and a woman to the hospital and triggering a search for the person or people responsible. 7News cameras on Saturday afternoon captured a door boarded up at the entrance of Channells Exquisite Banquet Hall, located at a shopping plaza along Northwest Seventh Avenue, near 151st Street. According to Miami-Dade Police, the shooting took place just before 11:30 p.m. Paramedics with Miami-Dade Fire Rescue transported both injured victims to

People living in the ShadowBay neighborhood of Longwood say this week marked the third time the streets have flooded like this in just the past few weeks. One neighbor could wind up owing thousands of dollars because of it. Those residents say this problem is entirely new and traceable to one neighbor. “I filled in the two manholes and that broken pipe because I didn’t want any more erosion on my property,” Diane Goglas told FOX 35 News. In March,