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Photo by: actionnewsjax A 5-vehicle collision on Interstate 295 North near Old St. Augustine Road turned deadly earlier today, resulting in the loss of a 61-year-old woman’s life, as reported by the Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department. According to the Florida Highway Patrol, the incident occurred around 5:29 p.m., when Vehicle 1, traveling northbound in the inside lane, failed to decelerate and slammed into the rear of Vehicle 2, which was forced to slow down due to traffic congestion. In

A man in his early 20s was stabbed early Thursday morning during an altercation inside an apartment on University Boulevard North in Arlington, Jacksonville police said. Sgt. Steve Rudlaff said the man was taken to Memorial Hospital by paramedics but died at the hospital. Investigators have detained several people for interviews, but the circumstances of the fight and the relationships of those involved are unclear, Rudlaff said. The stabbing was reported just after 12:30 a.m. Thursday at an apartment complex

An 80-year-old woman was killed after a crash in Englewood Wednesday afternoon. According to the Florida Highway Patrol, a sedan was headed south on Pine Street, south of 5th Street. At around 1:13 p.m., the sedan was driving in the right lane and tried to make a U-turn across traffic. An SUV in the left lane reportedly crashed into the sedan. The sedan driver was critically injured and taken to a local hospital. She was later pronounced dead, FHP said.

Photo by: cbs12 A man was struck and killed by a southbound Amtrak train in West Palm Beach on Wednesday night. Spokesperson for the West Palm Beach Police Department, Mike Jachles said the man – possibly homeless – was struck on the tracks about 1,000 feet north of 15th Street, near Windsor Avenue. Police said the area reopened by 10:30 p.m. Being involved in a pedestrian accident involving a train can result in devastating injuries and complex legal proceedings. At

Photo by:  Palm Beach County Fire Rescue A row of cars erupted in flames when a junk car lot seemingly exploded early Thursday morning. The blaze was reported around 3 a.m. at a car lot for damaged and totaled vehicles off Corporate Road South and Park of Commerce Boulevard in Jupiter. After a few hours on scene, firefighters brought the blaze under control. The call was logged as an explosion, and when first responders arrived, they found a row of

Photo by: wsvn A crash involving a Miami-Dade County school bus led to an intersection blockage in Miami Gardens as police attempt to clear the scene and investigate. On Thursday morning, 7Skyforce was over the intersection of Northwest 183rd Street and 17th Avenue where the school bus, displaying route number 2419, was involved in a collision with two other SUVs, which appeared to be severely damaged. Despite the impact, there were no reports of injuries among children on the bus.

Photo by:  Florida Highway Patrol Traffic is moving again on the Polk Parkway after a crash left a semi dangling off an overpass on Wednesday. Florida Highway Patrol says the driver of the semi lost control around 6:15 p.m. on the eastbound side of the highway near mile marker 18 in the Auburndale area. The impact caused 300 feet of guardrail to be destroyed “all the way down to the asphalt,” according to FHP. All eastbound lanes were blocked while

Photo by: City of Miami Fire Rescue Four people, including two police officers and a firefighter, were taken to the hospital early Thursday morning after a fire erupted inside of a home in Miami, first responders confirmed. According to City of Miami Fire Rescue Lt. Pete Sanchez, the fire was reported just before 12:30 a.m. in the 3600 block of Northwest 16th Street. Sanchez said crews responded to the single-story home to find smoke coming from the structure, and residents

Photo by: Martin County Sherriff’s Office A wrong-way driver crash has shut down the northbound lanes of the Turnpike in Martin County Wednesday. The Martin County Sherriff’s Office says a wrong-way driver on the highway hit another driver head-on near Mile Marker 132, not far from the Martin Downs Boulevard exit. MCSO says the lanes will be closed for hours. Drivers should get off of the northbound Turnpike at Indiantown Road and switch over to northbound Interstate 95, which has

A 28-year-old man from Alberta, Canada was pronounced dead after being discovered unconscious while free diving in waters off Key West, authorities confirmed Wednesday. According to Monroe County Sheriff’s spokesperson Adam Linhardt, Pieter Lodewikus Botha was spearfishing with a group of people from a private boat near the Western Dry Rocks area around 4 p.m. Tuesday when he was found unresponsive on the sea floor. Authorities said Botha was taken by paramedics to the Opal Key West Resort & Marina

 A woman was killed Wednesday morning in a rear-end crash on State Road 528 near Florida’s Turnpike in Orlando, the Florida Highway Patrol said. The fatal wreck was reported around 8:30 a.m. in the westbound lanes of S.R. 528, east of the Turnpike. The FHP said the woman was driving a 2024 Hyundai Tucson and failed to stop for traffic ahead of her, crashing into the back of a box truck. Troopers said the woman was taken to Orlando Regional Medical Center

A father was at the Metrowest Detention Center facing a charge of child abuse on Tuesday night in Miami-Dade County, records show. Police officers arrested Jorge Enrique Arias on Monday afternoon at the Frances S. Tucker Elementary STArts Magnet School in Miami’s Coconut Grove, records show. According to the arrest report, Arias’s 12-year-old son showed up to school on Monday morning with dry blood and his stepmother told a detective that his father had punched him in a car. According