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SOUTH PALM BEACH, Fla. — A driver hit and killed a 73-year-old woman who was crossing a road in South Palm Beach on Friday, deputies said. Investigators said Hatixhe Laiqi of South Palm Beach was walking across the 3500 block of S Ocean Boulevard just after 6 p.m. when she was hit by an SUV. Despite hitting the woman, the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office said the driver continued to head north on S Ocean Boulevard. Laiqi was pronounced dead

DELRAY BEACH, Fla. — Police are searching for the driver involved in a fatal hit-and-run crash of a 71-year-old pedestrian who was walking to his apartment from a convenience store on Saturday night in Delray Beach. The Delray Police Department didn’t release the name of the victim as of Sunday night. But three family members told WPTV the victim was Romeo Della Valle. Remulus Della Valle, who said he is Romeo’s identical twin brother, said he enjoyed writing poems and

PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. — A 33-year-old motorcycle rider suffered serious injuries when the person was ejected in Port St. Lucie, police said. The crash was reported at 4:39 p.m. Saturday at Southwest Port St. Lucie Boulevard and Southwest Aster, west of Florida’s Turnpike The operator was traveling east on Port St. Lucie Boulevard and struck a curbed median, and was ejected. The person was airlifted to a hospital. On Sunday, spokesperson Sgt. Dominick Mesiti told WPTV said the person

TREASURE ISLAND, Fla. — The Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office (PCSO) has charged a Florida man in a hit-and-run that killed his father on Saturday night. At approximately 8:36 p.m., deputies assigned to the Major Accident Investigation Team (MAIT) responded to R Bar, located at 245 108th Avenue in Treasure Island, to investigate a fatal hit-and-run. According to investigators, 86-year-old Thomas McKeown was struck and dragged by a black pickup truck in the parking lot of the bar. Investigators later learned

MARGATE, Fla. – An investigation continues as officers try to figure out what exactly led up to a vehicle slamming into the front of a Margate business on Saturday. The front of that GameStop, located along West Atlantic Boulevard near State Road 7, has been boarded up after a vehicle belonging to the city of Margate crashed into it. According to police, they responded to a car into a building crash and found the Margate Parks and Recreation vehicle had smashed

According to police, the driver of the car crashed after having a medical episode, and later died from that episode, not from any injuries sustained in the crash. They said there was also a juvenile in the car who was unharmed. WESH2 spoke with the people who live in the home, who said no one inside was injured. The car crashed into a child’s playroom. Valorie Ford said she could hear something coming Sunday afternoon. “And then it hit the

A 41-year-old man who was standing on Interstate 75 in Marion County this morning was struck and killed by a vehicle that fled the scene. The fatal accident took place at around 4:45 a.m. and led to the closure of multiple lanes of the highway for several hours. According to a report from the Florida Highway Patrol, an unknown vehicle was traveling northbound on I-75, in the right lane near the area of mile marker 342. For unknown reasons, the 41-year-old