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Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) troopers said a crash on County Road 314 killed one person and left three others seriously injured Saturday night. Troopers said it happened around 7:30 p.m. near Northeast 170th Avenue. Authorities say they believe the two vehicles collided when the victim driver, a 50-year-old woman from Pottstown, Penn., attempted to overtake another vehicle ahead by crossing the doubled yellow lines. The second car was in the opposite lane traveling towards them when the cars collided. The

Photo by: wesh After Orange County Fire Rescue rescued a man from a submerged vehicle on Monday afternoon, the Florida Highway Patrol confirms he has died from the crash. According to a report from FHP, a 52-year-old Orlando man was traveling eastbound on LBV Factory Stores Drive when he came to a roundabout at Poinciana Boulevard. Troopers say the man failed to negotiate the roundabout, causing his vehicle to hit a curb, go airborne and land in a nearby retention

 A 66-year-old Freeport Woman has died after an accident on Highway 98 near South Watersound Parkway in Walton County. The accident occurred around 8:00 a.m. on Monday. According to FHP, the woman was driving a blue Nissan Versa traveling eastbound in the outside lane on Highway 98, approaching South Watersound Parkway. A 42-year-old Panama City male was driving a black GMC truck pulling a tailor in front of the woman. Officials said the Freeport woman collided with the back of

A Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office correctional officer was arrested Monday and accused of domestic battery, according to JSO Director of Investigations M R. JSO identified the officer as Corrections Lieutenant Alphonso Waddell, who has been working with the agency for 14 years and 10 months. R said officers responded to reports of a domestic dispute around 1:30 a.m. at W’s home. According to JSO, the complainant told officers W had grabbed their throat while they were on the phone. A child

A Miami-Dade woman faces multiple charges after police said she assaulted her 75-year-old mother and battered two police officers while resisting arrest. Miami-Dade police said J M F, 37, attacked her mother, who she lives with, following an argument that escalated into violence. The incident occurred just after 8:30 p.m. Friday at a home near the intersection of Southwest 57th Avenue and Southwest 72nd Street in the unincorporated High Pines area near Coral Gables and South Miami. Police said F

Miami police detectives investigated a shooting Monday that they said left four people wounded. It happened just before 1:30 p.m. near Northwest 59th Street and 17th Avenue, in the city’s Liberty City neighborhood. Medics took three victims to Jackson Memorial Hospital, while a fourth person drove themselves, a Miami Police Department spokesperson said. All four were “alert and stable,” police said. Video taken from a northwest Miami-Dade apartment shows a shot-up sedan surrounded by crime scene tape. The victims drove

Photo by: wfla A part of a tractor-trailer fell off an overpass on the I-75 North ramp to I-4 in Hillsborough County, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. An FHP official said at 12:05 p.m., the driver of the semi-truck, described as a 31-year-old Tampa man, was heading north on the ramp from I-75 to I-4 when it crashed with the inside concrete barrier. The semi-truck ended up flipping, which caused its Seatrade trailer to fall onto Hillsborough Avenue. According

Photo by: WCSO A 19-year-old Mississippi man has been arrested for driving a stolen vehicle after a pursuit ended in Defuniak Springs. This evening, deputies were notified of a stolen vehicle out of Mississippi traveling on Highway 90, according to the Walton County Sheriff’s Office. Deputies say they spotted the vehicle and initiated a traffic stop. The driver, identified as M P S Marie, attempted to flee but crashed near the intersection of Live Oak Avenue West and South 22nd

Authorities said B, of northwest Miami-Dade, shot the victim four times and also hit the restaurant, located at 322 NW 24th St., with bullets while a dozen employees were working inside. According to an arrest report, authorities responded to the scene just after 9:45 p.m. on Oct. 28 after receiving a report of seven shots fired in the area and found the victim with four gunshot wounds. Police said an officer applied a tourniquet and performed “life-saving measures” until medics

Photo by: local10 The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office announced that Deputy I. D. died Monday afternoon, becoming the third fatality among motorcycle deputies involved in last Thursday’s tragic crash near Loxahatchee. Diaz, who fought for his life for days, succumbed to his injuries Monday afternoon, according to PBSO officials. The crash occurred on Southern Boulevard, west of Seminole Pratt Whitney Road, near Lion Country Safari. Deputies L P, B W, and D were struck by a vehicle while assisting with a

A woman is accused of attacking a law enforcement officer at a St. Petersburg Walmart after eating cookies and stealing undergarments. A G, 39, was inside the Walmart, located at 201 34th Street North on Saturday afternoon when Walmart’s Loss Prevention had asked her to leave after suspecting she was concealing merchandise. As G was escorted toward the exit, she began yelling and cursing, before pushing a responding St. Pete police officer’s arm away while trying to “aggressively approach” a

A Freightliner propane tanker truck fatally hit a pedestrian Monday morning in Pasco County, Florida Highway Patrol announced. The tanker truck, driven by a 62-year-old Hudson man, was traveling westbound in the right turn lane on SR-52 at the intersection of Grand Boulevard around 5:46 a.m. A female pedestrian, 43, from New Port Richey, was walking across the street in a crosswalk when she walked into the path of the truck as it began to turn on Grand Boulevard under