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Photo via Seminole County Fire Department A child is dead and several families are displaced following a fire at an apartment complex in Seminole County early Wednesday, officials said. The massive blaze broke out shortly before 1:30 a.m. at the complex located at 857 Ballard Street in Altamonte Springs. More than 70 firefighters were called out to the 2-alarm fire and were met with heavy fire shooting through the roof. Officials said the fire resulted in the death of one

A 20-foot boat took on water and capsized off Fisher Island on Tuesday afternoon. Miami-Dade Fire Rescue said boat crew members responded to reports of an overturned vessel with two people in the water. Sky 10 flew over the scene around 3:40 p.m. where rescue crews were assisting the two people who were stranded near the 15000 block of Fisher Island Drive, near Government Cut in Miami Beach. Authorities said the stranded victims were wearing lifejackets and were taken back

Photo by: Clik Orlando Seven people were injured Tuesday afternoon in a crash on Interstate 4 in Orlando, officials said. Troopers said the crash happened in the westbound lanes of I-4 near Sand Lake Road around 1:32 p.m.According to a crash report, a Toyota SUV was traveling west on I-4 behind a Nissan Murano. The Murano was slowing for traffic ahead and the Toyota crashed failed to observe the slowdown and into the back of the Nissan. The drivers of

Photo by: wfla A pilot died after a plane crashed at a Lakeland airport Tuesday morning, officials said. The Federal Aviation Administration said a single-engine airplane crashed at the South Lakeland Airport at about 10:40 a.m. Sheriff Grady Judd said pilot Arthur Canning, 76, of Lakeland was beginning to take off at the airstrip when the engine began to sputter. “When the engine sputtered, he apparently stalled and crashed directly into the ground, and he immediately died as a result

 Police responded to an area near a Coral Springs school after reports of a 10-year-old child being struck by a vehicle. The incident occurred around 7:45 a.m. Tuesday along Sample Road and Northwest 110th Avenue as the child was heading to school. After the child was hit, they were airlifted to Broward Health Medical Center. According to Coral Springs Fire Rescue, the child is in stable condition. The driver stayed on the scene. It is unclear if any charges will

Police arrested a northeast Miami-Dade massage therapist after they said he spent “10 to 20 minutes” sexually battering a 31-year-old client Monday. According to an arrest report, Georges Marquis Plummer, 29, of Aventura, works at OUM Lymphatic Massage, located at 20200 W. Dixie Highway in the unincorporated Ojus area. Police said the victim, a woman, was getting a massage at around 9:15 a.m. when Plummer “pulled her underwear to the side” and started rubbing her genitals with the palm of

Aformer babysitter was sentenced to life in prison Tuesday for committing sex crimes against two children he babysat when he lived in Palm Coast, according to the State Attorney’s Office. When Donald Andrew Sharp, 24, was convicted in February, State Attorney R.J. Larizza stated in a release that he would have sought the death penalty against Sharp had a new state law applied at the time. State legislators last year approved a law signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis allowing the death penalty

Photo by: NbcMiami Divers found a body inside a submerged car that crashed into a Parkland canal on Monday. Coral Springs Fire Rescue and Broward’s Sheriff’s deputies initially responded to the scene following reports of a vehicle in the canal around 11 a.m. Fire rescue officials said there was a crash near the area that caused the car to go into the canal near NW 78th Place. The BSO Dive Team also responded and discovered a person’s body inside that

A 42-year-old man was killed after colliding mid-air with another skydiver Monday in DeLand, police said. Officers were called around 2:25 p.m. to DeLand Municipal Airport after a skydiver suffered a hard-landing, according to the DeLand Police Department. Police on Tuesday identified the man as Giullianno Scotti, of Brazil. A preliminary police investigation revealed that two skydivers collided, and Scotti’s body was found in the 1600 block of Lexington Avenue. First-responders conducted life-saving measures, but Scotti was pronounced dead at

Photo by: nbc-2 Four people were seriously injured and hospitalized after a major crash in Cape Coral on Del Prado Boulevard South Monday morning. According to the Cape Coral Police Department (CCPD), the crash happened around 11 a.m. and involved two cars; one with a man, woman, and three children. The other, a driver with no passengers. CCPD said three of the four people hospitalized were children. NBC2 spoke to a woman who works at the dermatology office next to

Two former employees within the school district of Palm Beach County are facing jail time after being accused of sexual misconduct with students, one of whom was in middle school. Corey Pierce, 21, of Palm Springs, worked as a middle school substitute teacher at Woodlands Middle School and is accused of messaging students at the school using TikTok and kissing them while on campus. Meanwhile, Jordan Augustine, 21, was a hall monitor at Royal Palm Beach Community High School and faces allegations

Investigators are looking for a hit-and-run driver accused of hitting a 52-year-old pedestrian, just after the man was struck by another car only moments before. The Broward Sheriff’s Office (BSO) said on March 28 just after 8 p.m., dispatch received a call regarding a crash on South State Road 7, off SW 26th Street. The sheriff’s office said Shelton Reaves was crossing the road when he reached a mid-block in the intersection. At the same time, an Acura was approaching.