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A 57-year-old Altamonte Springs man was struck by an SUV and dragged beneath the vehicle while he was collecting bags of garbage at an apartment complex in Seminole County, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. The fatal crash occurred around 9:20 p.m. Tuesday in the area of Jordan Stuart Circle near Hunter Lake Way, troopers said. According to an FHP crash report, a 17-year-old Maitland boy was driving the SUV south on Jordan Stuart Circle and failed to see the

A Port Richey man was arrested in connection with a hit-and-run crash that left an elderly man in critical condition on Monday, according to officials. Clearwater Police traffic homicide investigators arrested 37-year-old Kris Paterson. Police say Paterson was driving a 2021 Dodge Ram pickup that hit an 80-year-old man riding a mobility scooter at the intersection of Gulf-to-Bay Boulevard and Hampton Road. Paterson was making a right turn from a business parking lot to go east on Gulf-to-Bay when the crash happened,

Photo by: Fox13news Three people were shot and injured in a shooting in downtown Tampa late Tuesday night, according to police. According to the Tampa Police Department, officers responded to the intersection of Marion Street and Tyler Street at 11:15 p.m. on Tuesday for a report of shots fired.  They arrived to find a rifle and several spent casings. Two males sustained upper body trauma, and one female sustained lower body trauma in the shooting, and all three later arrived at a

Photo by: Fox35orlando The Florida Highway Patrol responded to a two-vehicle crash in the Fairview Shores neighborhood on Tuesday, assisted by the Orange County Sheriff’s Office. Troopers said the crash occurred just after 1 p.m. at the Baltimore Dr. and Adanson St. intersection, involving a Silver Toyota and a Silver Mercedes. Both drivers were taken to Orlando Regional Medical Center as trauma alerts, having suffered severe injuries.  Just before 4 p.m., a FOX 35 News crew observed multiple law enforcement

Photo by: SKYFOX Eight people were killed, and dozens of others were injured when a migrant bus and a pickup truck collided in Florida on Tuesday morning, officials said.  The Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) said the crash happened in Marion County shortly after 6:30 a.m. on State Road 40, west of SW 148 Court, on the outskirts of Dunnellon.  Troopers said the man who was driving the pickup truck that sideswiped the bus carrying over 50 farmworkers was charged with eight counts of DUI

Photo by: Titusville Police Department One person was injured after a tree crashed down onto a home in Titusville as storms moved over Central Florida on Tuesday. Police said they received a call for the tree down on Westview Lane just after 1 p.m. and heard people screaming in the background. According to officers, a neighbor told them after the tree fell, he heard a scream, found a person on the ground, and called 911. He also stated that prior

Photo by: Local10 One person was rushed to a hospital Tuesday morning, where they died after a vehicle drove into a canal off Alligator Alley, authorities confirmed. According to Broward Sheriff Fire Rescue Battalion Chief Michael B. Kane, the crash occurred on Interstate 75 near mile marker 45. Kane said three people were inside the vehicle, two of whom were able to self-extricate. He said divers pulled the third victim from the vehicle, who was airlifted to Broward Health Medical

Police are investigating a shooting in a southwest Miami-Dade neighborhood that left a man dead Tuesday afternoon. The shooting happened around 1:45 p.m. in the area of W. Old Cutler Road and Southwest 115th Avenue in Goulds. Miami-Dade Police officials said officers responded to the area and found a man suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. The man was taken to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead. His identity hasn’t been released. Police said they’re still investigating the shooting

Photo by: Doug Engle/Ocala Star-Banner/USA Today Network Authorities are bracing for the possibility of additional deaths after emergency officials said a bus thought to be carrying migrant farm workers crashed on a state highway in north-central Florida Tuesday, leaving eight dead and 45 injured. The 2010 International Bus carrying “approximately 53 farm workers” and a 2001 Ford Ranger sideswiped each other around 6:35 a.m., about 15 miles west of Ocala, the Florida Highway Patrol said in a statement. The Ford,

One person was killed after a car crashed into a canal off Alligator Alley in Broward County Tuesday morning, officials said. The crash happened around 8:30 a.m. on Interstate 75 northbound near Mile Marker 45 and involved an Infiniti Q50 sedan, Florida Highway Patrol officials said. It appears the car had a tire blow out, causing the 20-year-old man who was driving to lose control, FHP officials said. The car entered the grassy shoulder, rolled over multiple times and collided

A South Florida man has been convicted of felony and misdemeanor charges related to his conduct during the Jan. 6, 2021, breach of the U.S. Capitol according to federal authorities. A federal jury found Richard Cook, 37, of Boca Raton, guilty of civil disorder, a felony, and five misdemeanor offenses, including entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds, disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds, engaging in physical violence in a restricted building or grounds,

North Miami Beach police are searching for a man who broke into a smoke shop overnight. Local 10 News was at the scene – HQD Smoke Shop, located at 81 NE 167th St. – Tuesday morning and saw that the front door glass had been shattered. Police confirmed that an unknown male wearing a black face covering threw a rock through the front glass of the business and stole a cash register. He then fled the scene in an unknown