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Local agencies responded to a crash Wednesday night on Highway 231 that left two injured. According to the Florida Highway Patrol, a 61-year-old man and a 63-year-old female passenger were traveling north on U.S. Highway 231 in the left turn lane and approached the intersection of U.S. Highway 231 and County Road 390. Officials say the man failed to yield the right of way to a 22-year-old woman traveling south on SR 75 approaching the intersection. The front of the

A Leesburg man was arrested for driving under the influence when he crashed into a power pole after drinking Fireball on New Year’s Eve. MLW, 29, struck a power pole on Park Holland Road around 12 a.m. Thursday, according to an arrest report from the Leesburg Police Department. When Leesburg Fire Rescue and law enforcement got there, they found a white Chevy Tahoe disabled on the south side of the road near the pole, broken at the base. The vehicle

Credit: Florida Highway Patrol A shipping container fell from a tractor-trailer at a Hillsborough County intersection, knocking out traffic signals for several hours, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. This happened at 5:30 a.m. on Wednesday at the corner of 50th Street and Causeway Boulevard. Troopers say a 52-year-old Seffner man was turning left in his tractor-trailer when an improperly secured shipping container fell off. The container hit a traffic signal control box at the intersection, causing the traffic lights

 A 36-year-old man is facing multiple charges after a violent confrontation earlier this week with a Miami police officer inside a downtown residential high-rise, according to an arrest affidavit obtained Thursday by Local 10 News. According to the arrest report, EO was arrested Wednesday evening after he was spotted on an electric standing scooter, traveling south on Northwest Second Avenue, approaching Sixth Street. Police said O fled from officers and entered a residential building located at 55 NE Fifth St.

A man was arrested after being accused of shooting and killing his landlord in a Port Charlotte home on Van Buren Avenue. According to the Charlotte County Sheriff’s Office, deputies responded to reports of a shooting at a home on the 23000 block of Van Buren Avenue around 1:39 p.m. The CCSO Major Crimes Unit responded to the scene to investigate. The investigation determined that JR, 38, was in a physical altercation with his landlord, and that during the altercation, Ruddy opened

An 87-year-old husband has been arrested after an alleged attack on his wife. CS is facing a felony charge of battery following his arrest on New Year’s Eve as a result of an altercation at his home at the Lakes of Lady Lake. Officers arrived at the home and found S’s wife, who was suffering from bleeding from her neck, according to an arrest report from the Lady Lake Police Department. She said that S was upset about an upcoming

Photo by: Hillsborough County Fire Rescue One dog is dead following a Hillsborough County house fire. Hillsborough County Fire Rescue responded to a single-story home just before 10:30 a.m. Wednesday in the area of 4th Avenue Northwest in Ruskin, where crews found heavy smoke coming from the garage. Firefighters used hose lines to take out the fire in the garage and prevented it from reaching the rest of the home. After searching through the house, crews found no person inside,

An 8-year-old boy was seriously injured Wednesday evening after the dirt bike he was riding crashed into a car in Altamonte Springs, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. The crash occurred around 6:05 p.m. at the intersection of S Ronald Reagan Blvd and Florence Avenue in Seminole County, according to a preliminary report. The 8-year-old was riding a 2023 Yamaha dirt bike traveling southbound on S Ronald Reagan Blvd in the outside lane when he lost control and entered the

A driver was killed Thursday morning in a single-vehicle rollover crash in Groveland, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. The fatal wreck happened around 6:35 a.m. at Mascotte Empire Road and Justamere Lane, south of State Road 50 and County Road 33. The FHP said a 2010 Lexus ES overturned in the crash, and the driver was pronounced dead at the scene. Mascotte Empire Road is closed in both directions. No other details have been released. Ovadia Law Group—Your Partner in Car

Traffic was blocked in Ocala after a homicide investigation broke out on Wednesday, according to the police department. In a release, police said they received a 911 call shortly after 3:30 p.m. about a suspicious person in the 900 block of Southeast 3rd Street, not far from Osceola Middle School. “The caller reported that as he was pulling out of his driveway, he was approached by a black male dressed in all black walking towards his house,” the release reads.

Credit: Highlands County Fire Rescue Multiple tractors caught on fire Wednesday night at a commercial property in Avon Park. The Highlands County Fire Rescue was called around 7:36 p.m. for mutual aid to assist the Avon Park Fire Department with a fire at a commercial property in the 1400 block of Oleander Drive. According to HCFR, multiple tractors had caught on fire at the property. A pole barn is a total loss, as well as several pieces of heavy equipment,

Photo by: wfla  Multiple people were injured in a three-car crash that prompted a large police presence in Largo Wednesday night. The crash happened near Seminole Boulevard and 16th Avenue Southeast. Authorities said at least three people were taken to nearby hospitals as trauma alerts, though the full extent of their injuries was unclear. Debris was scattered across the roadway, and one vehicle appeared to have smashed into a palm tree. A witness said he pulled over and got out