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A woman was arrested Sunday for allegedly stabbing the father of her son to death at their Miami Gardens home, according to police. Miami Gardens officers responded after 4 p.m. to the 3800 block of Northwest 177th Street after a witness reported hearing a woman saying she was grabbing a knife during a violent dispute, according to an arrest affidavit. There, police found 31-year-old Kaity Elese Maldonado kneeling on her driveway covered in blood and a bloody butcher’s knife with a six-inch

St. Augustine police released a cell phone video showing a group of people punching and kicking a man while he was working for the city. Investigators said the attack happened early in the morning on March 3. The video released by police can be seen in the media player above. A word of warning; the video contains strong language and violence. It may be disturbing to some viewers and discretion is advised. The video shows a man in a high-visibility

Photo by: winknews A firefighter has been injured after responding to a house fire early Monday evening. Shortly after 6 p.m. Monday evening, The Fort Myers Fire Department responded to a house fire on Arlington Street. “I thought for sure the house next door was going to catch fire and the one behind,” said one neighbor. As thick black smoke filled the sky, concerned neighbors lined up and down Arlington Street, along with the man who lived there. According to authorities, a

Photo by: winknews An entire street in Cape Coral has no power after a U-Haul crashed into more than one power pole and took out a woman’s fence. The craziest part is that the driver took off. They just left all of that damage behind on Kismet Parkway. Police are still investigating, so we don’t know for sure why the driver ended up on the road and if the driver lost control, but the homeowner said people cut through her backyard all the

Photo by: Hillsborough County Fire Rescue A massive brush fire that broke out at the Mosaic Company plant in Riverview, which handles fertilizer, on Monday has been contained, according to Hillsborough County Fire Rescue. Eagle 8 footage shows first responders trying to control the flames as they approach the Mosaic plant. Large plums of black smoke can be seen for miles around the area. Rescue crews were dispatched at 5:47 p.m. for reports of a brush fire. When units first

A 61-year-old man is dead after he was run over by the trailer of a pickup truck in Clay County on Monday afternoon, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. Officials said the truck was traveling westbound on State Road 16, approaching Florida Court around 3:16 p.m. The 61-year-old man was riding a bicycle on the sidewalk adjacent to SR-16. A witness said they saw the biker attempt to cross the road after the truck passed him, but he didn’t see

Photo by: news4jax Two people died in an airplane crash that happened shortly after the aircraft took off from the Northeast Florida Regional Airport in St. Augustine Monday around noon, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. The St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office and other agencies responded to the wooded area near Torres Trace where the crash happened. The crash involved a Mooney M20 airplane. Officials said the pilot was attempting to return to Northeast Florida Regional Airport following a problem

A Pensacola man is dead after his motorcycle collided with a bicyclist on Monday night, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. A news release from FHP said the crash occurred at County Road 95A, which is North Palafox Street, and US-29, also known as Pensacola Boulevard. “A motorcycle traveling north on N Palafox St. struck a bicyclist that was crossing the roadway,” the release said. “The motorcyclist was pronounced dead on scene while the bicyclist was transported to Baptist Hospital with

Photo by: cbs12  A pedestrian was struck and killed on Southern Boulevard early Tuesday morning, and deputies are investigating the scene. The crash happened on Kirk Road right off Southern Boulevard, according to Teri Barbera, a Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson. Deputies are yet to release details on the vehicle or its driver. The victim’s body was removed at about 9:20 a.m. after the incident hours earlier. As deputies investigate the scene, they’ve closed off the westbound section of

Photo by: Marion County Fire Rescue A woman is in the hospital after three-vehicle crash in Marion County Monday night. Marion County Fire Rescue crews responded to a crash involving semi-truck, an SUV, and a Jeep on South US Highway 441 just after 8 p.m. The driver of SUV was trapped in the vehicle. Crews were able to extract the female driver from the vehicle. She was trauma alerted to a local trauma hospital. The semi-truck driver and the Jeep

An estimated $20,000 in damage was caused when an unlicensed driver had “a few drinks” and tried taking driving lessons from a friend who also doesn’t have a license, according to Florida investigators. Both men survived the chaotic affair, which concluded when their car knocked a parked car into a house, the Martin County Sheriff’s Office reported in a March 25 news release. Martin County is about a 95-mile drive north from Miami. “Unlicensed driver gives lessons to intoxicated unlicensed friend. What

A 64-year-old man is dead after a van reportedly blew through a stop sign and crashed into a motorcycle in Port Charlotte Monday afternoon. According to the Florida Highway Patrol, a van was headed south on Torrington Street toward the intersection of Veterans Boulevard. A motorcycle was traveling west on Veterans Blvd, approaching the same intersection. At around 2:20 p.m., the van ran a stop sign and crashed into the side of the motorcycle. The motorcyclist was critically injured and