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A 9-year-old girl was seriously injured when a car hit her as she entered the street in Lake City. Florida Highway Patrol troopers say on Thursday morning a car was headed north on Southwest Birley Avenue. They say the girl entered the roadway in front of the car and was hit. She was taken to UF Health Shands with serious injuries. Protecting Pedestrian Accident Victims’ RightsPedestrian accident victims deserve a legal team that will protect their rights and fight for

Photo by:(Seminole County Fire Department)  Firefighters responded to two separate house fires Wednesday in Seminole County. In Altamonte Springs, a home along Via Verona Drive caught fire shortly after noon, the Seminole County Fire Department said. Crews arrived to find flames shooting from the roof but investigators said no one was hurt. In Apopka, a house fire sent one person to the hospital to be treated for smoke inhalation, according to SCFD. The home along Attleboro Place also had flames

A body that was found earlier this week near a road in Brevard County has been identified as a Fort Pierce woman, deputies said. The Brevard County Sheriff’s Office said Aniya Sheppard, 20, of Fort Pierce was found shot to death near Eber Boulevard in unincorporated West Melbourne. The sheriff’s office said the investigation began when deputies responded to the area of Eber Boulevard near Buddy Drive at about 6:40 a.m. after a deputy was advised by a resident that

Photo by: leesburg-news A Leesburg woman was arrested for battery after allegedly grabbing a man by the neck and pushing him during an argument over food. An officer responded to a battery at an undisclosed Lake County residence around 5:22 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 30, according to an arrest report from the Leesburg Police Department. He arrived on scene to find two other officers and 20-year-old Ahnizsha Faye Jackson.  Jackson advised that she, her newborn daughter and the male victim

One person is dead after a crash on Interstate 75 in Pembroke Pines Thursday afternoon, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. The crash happened at around 2:30 p.m. in the northbound lanes, near the Pines Boulevard overpass. Video from Sky 10 showed two vehicles involved. FHP Lt. Indiana Miranda, an agency spokesperson, said the victim died at a local hospital. Authorities closed two lanes of the highway as they investigated, leading to a traffic backup. Officials have not released the

 A Volusia County man was attacked by two people after being lured to the beach by a woman tempting him with sex. Deputies said 18-year-old Alana Cagle drove the victim to the beach and tied him up. The victim told deputies that he felt uncomfortable, so he broke away from the ties and tried to run. That is when a man, Wayne Streeter, appeared and started attacking him too. Deputies said the victim was able to fight his was free

Two suspects in a stolen car fled from officers in Miramar before causing a crash with another vehicle on Thursday, police said. Miramar Police said the incident began when an officer who was on patrol spotted a stolen vehicle and stood by so other officers could respond. But the two suspects in the vehicle noticed the officer and sped away before they crashed into another vehicle at Miramar Parkway and Island Drive. The crash caused minor injuries. One of the

Photo by: Thomas Petry, 55 (Volusia County Corrections) A Volusia County man will spend 37 years in prison after leaving the scene of a wrong-way crash that killed three people in 2022, one of them a social media influencer, court records show. Thomas Petry, 55, of Orange City, was sentenced Wednesday after pleading guilty to charges of reckless driving with serious bodily injury, leaving the scene of a crash involving serious bodily injury and three counts each of vehicular homicide and leaving the scene

Photo by: Carika Hall More than a month after a 6-year-old boy accidentally shot and killed himself inside a Tamarac apartment with a gun that had been unsecured, his uncle has been arrested in connection with the incident, authorities said. Carika Hall, 25, was arrested Wednesday on charges of culpable negligence and child neglect in the Sept. 30 death of his nephew, Odaine Hall, Broward Sheriff’s Office officials said. Investigators said Odaine Hall was being watched by his uncle when he somehow got

Photo by: (FDOT) A crash on I-95 in Martin County has caused traffic disruptions on Thursday morning. Florida 511 said the crash occurred at around 9:08 a.m. on the southbound lanes of I-95 at mile marker 92. The severity of the incident is listed as intermediate, according to Florida 511. Traffic cameras show that the right lane is blocked, and traffic is moving slowly in the area. Florida 511 says there is traffic congestion all the way to mile marker

A father and son from Dunnellon who were convicted of ambushing and brutally attacking a bicyclist at a local Circle K, have both been sentenced to over 15 years in prison. On Friday, November 1, the State Attorney’s Office for the Fifth Judicial Circuit announced that 50-year-old Vincent Paul Gaudio and his son, 18-year-old William Trent Gaudio, were sentenced in their aggravated battery with great bodily harm and tampering with a witness case. Vincent was sentenced to 15 years and

A reported fight in the middle of a Riviera Beach street on Tuesday afternoon led to the arrest of a woman accused of deliberately striking two people in the crowd with a car. In the collision, one of the victims was knocked to the ground and left injured on the ground; while the other victim got caught on the hood and was left pleading with the driver to stop, the Riviera Beach Police Department stated. The suspect, Katrelle Fulmore, was