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A person was injured after a large disturbance at Veterans Park along Homestead Road in Lehigh Acres on Monday afternoon. Lee County deputies responded as they said shots were fired into the air. According to LCSO, when deputies arrived on the scene, they brought the situation under control after families were sent scrambling for safety. According to Lee County Sheriff’s Office, the investigation continued throughout Monday night. Deputies learned that dozens of people showed up to the park to participate

A 24-year-old Apopka man was arrested in connection with a hit-and-run crash near Disney World that injured a 1-month-old baby, the Florida Highway Patrol said. Around 7:30 p.m. Saturday, troopers responded to a call about a possible hit-and-run on the entrance ramp for Epcot Center Drive to Interstate 4 east. According to an arrest report, the victim said a white Mercedes attempted to pass his vehicle on the right shoulder but failed to merge safely, causing the Mercedes to collide

Photo: Columbia County Sheriff’s Office A woman was shot Monday morning when she interrupted an apparent burglary at her Columbia County apartment, according to the Sheriff’s Office. Deputies said the call came in just before 10:45 a.m. about a person being shot on SW Michigan Street. They found the woman lying in the yard in front of an apartment and rushed her away in a patrol vehicle to meet paramedics who were en route. The woman was able to tell

A man was arrested early Monday morning after stabbing another man in the neck in southwest Miami-Dade, authorities said. According to an arrest report from the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office, the incident occurred just after 6:45 p.m. Sunday in the 15800 block of Southwest 207th Avenue. Deputies said the victim told them he was involved in a verbal argument with the suspect, B, 40, of Miami, over B allegedly stealing his property. He said he turned around at one point and B

An 18-year-old Tarpon Springs woman was surprisingly unharmed after flipping her car while attempting to enter the interstate in St. Petersburg on Sunday morning. The Florida Highway Patrol said the crash happened at around 7:40 a.m., when much of Pinellas County was blanketed with dense fog. The teen, who was driving a Kia Forte, was traveling east on the Gateway Expressway and entered the southbound ramp leading to I-275. FHP said she was traveling “at speeds too fast for conditions,”

Courtesy of Tampa Fire Rescue Tampa Fire Rescue crews worked to put out several car fires in a Tampa hotel garage on Monday afternoon. Firefighters battled a large fire on the second floor of the Grand Hyatt hotel’s garage on 2900 Bayport Drive. At least 10 cars were impacted by the flames. No one was injured. The fire did not require a hotel evacuation and did not extend to the hotel structure. Crews took about an hour to put out

An accident with injuries in Avondale closed southbound lanes on Roosevelt Boulevard on Monday afternoon. The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office said Roosevelt Blvd. from Park Street to Plymouth Street would be closed for an undetermined amount of time. Drivers should seek alternative routes. Ovadia Law Group – Your Car Accident Legal Experts If you’ve been injured in a car accident, Ovadia Law Group is here to fight for your rights. Our experienced car accident attorneys understand the physical, emotional, and financial

Photo by: Local10 A man was injured after a shooting on Monday morning in Fort Lauderdale, according to fire rescue personnel. Police officers and fire rescue personnel responded at about 9:55 a.m. to a bus bench along North Avenue of Arts, near Northwest Ninth Street. Police officers used crime scene tape to surround an area where there was blood on the sidewalk. Detectives ask anyone with information about this or other cases to call Broward County Crime Stoppers at 954-493-8477

One person was killed in an overnight fire in Pace. The Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office says authorities responded around 2:15 a.m. Monday to a structure fire on Caden Court, which is in a neighborhood off N Spencer Field Road. “When deputies arrived, the residence was fully engulfed and inaccessible,” deputies say in a release. “Nearby homes were evacuated for precaution.” Pace Fire Rescue extinguished the fire and then conducted a search of the home. “During the search, a single

One person is dead after getting hit by a car in Palm Beach County Sunday night. According to the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office, at around 9:15 p.m., a vehicle was traveling northbound on Haverhill Road near Vilma Lane when the driver suddenly noticed a pedestrian crossing the street. The driver was unable to avoid the pedestrian, identified as 48-year-old Werner Sanchez-Gomez, and hit him. Sanchez-Gomez was pronounced dead at the hospital. If you’ve been hurt in a pedestrian accident,

The Lakeland Police Department (LPD) said officers are investigating a fatal crash after an 81-year-old woman died following a head-on collision. LPD said officers responded to the crash in the 4100 block of West Pipkin Road at approximately 7:26 p.m. on Jan. 4. Police said before the crash, a white Honda SUV, driven by 81-year-old Lakeland resident Mary Lockhart, was traveling eastbound in the westbound inside lane of West Pipkin Road. At the same time, a grey Honda Accord, driven

A 29-year-old Brewton male pedestrian is seriously injured after being struck by a pickup truck in Santa Rosa County on Sunday night. Troopers say the accident occurred at 8:27 p.m. on Munson Highway at Indian Ford Road when the man was walking along the road edge with the flow of traffic and was struck by a black Ford F350 pickup truck driven by a 26-year-old Baker man. The pedestrian sustained serious injuries and was flown to Sacred Heart Hospital in