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Photo by: wfla One person is dead, and several are injured after a crash in St. Petersburg Saturday night. The crash happened on North Frontage Road and MLK Street North around 9:30 p.m. According to the St. Petersburg Police Department, a silver Mitsubishi Outlander was traveling northbound on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr Street North and crossing North Frontage Road with a green light when a blue Dodge Challenger failed to stop at the red light. The Challenger, driven by

A man was arrested in connection with a crash that left a 16-year-old dead in Apollo Beach on Friday. According to the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s office, at 5:14 p.m. a mother and her 16-year-old daughter were driving north on 30th Street northeast. Deputies said their sedan was crossing the intersection of Convington Drive when a pickup truck driven by twenty-one-year-old DF, that was traveling west, ran a stop sign at 30th Street. The pickup truck struck the passenger side of

A 9-year-old girl died after a crash on US-301 Saturday night, the Florida Highway Patrol announced. A Chevrolet Trax, driven by a 32-year-old Riverview woman, was traveling southbound on US-301 when it turned left into the path of a Ford Fusion. According to FHP, the crash happened on Saturday around 11 p.m. The Ford Fusion, driven by a 27-year-old Tampa man, was driving northbound on US-301 at the time of the crash. The 32-year-old suffered minor injuries and was transported

A woman was shot early Saturday morning during a fight on Begonia Road in the Magnolia Gardens area, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office. JSO said officers responded to a ShotSpotter alert around 3:45 a.m. in the area south of Edgewood Avenue. According to JSO, shortly after officers got there, a woman in her early 20s arrived at a local hospital with a gunshot wound to her right hand. Her injuries are not life-threatening. Investigators said they learned a group

Photo by: (WJXT) A 38-year-old Jacksonville man died Saturday afternoon in a violent crash on I-295 northbound at Herlong Road, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. Troopers said the man was headed north around 12:30 p.m. in a pick-up truck in the inside lane, north of Wilson Boulevard, when he changed lanes to the outside lane, lost control and hit a metal guardrail. According to the crash report, the truck drove through the guardrail, slamming into a concrete pillar of

A man was fatally stabbed Friday afternoon in Northwest Jacksonville, the Sheriff’s Office said. The circumstances surrounding the stabbing are unclear, but JSO said a man, possibly in his late 60s, was found by patrol officers around 3:30 p.m. stabbed on West 30th Street in the Grand Park area. Paramedics rushed him to the hospital, but he died after surgery from his injuries, JSO said. Investigators said they were interviewing several people, but the circumstances and relationships of those involved

 A pedestrian was killed Friday night in a crash on New Kings Road, marking Jacksonville’s 163rd traffic fatality and 36th pedestrian death of 2025, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office. The fatal collision occurred just after 6:30 p.m. on New Kings Road, about a half-mile south of I-295, when a northbound driver struck a man who was in the roadway, authorities said. A witness who was driving several cars behind the incident described a violent impact that scattered debris across the

Three people are recovering after being shot early Sunday morning during a fight inside a Jacksonville bar, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office. Police said officers responded to Tipsy Bar and Grill around 3:30 a.m. after reports of a shooting. Investigators said a fight broke out inside the restaurant, and security tried to detain one of the people. Police say that the man then pulled out a gun and opened fire, hitting a security guard and two other victims. Police

A 5-year-old boy died and another 13 people were critically injured early Saturday morning in a crash on U.S. 27 in Marion County, the Florida Highway Patrol said. Troopers said a motorhome carrying 15 people from Springfield, Ohio, was headed south on U.S. 27 when it collided with an SUV that was headed west on County Road 316. FHP said the motorhome flipped in the crash, critically injuring 12 of the passengers. The 5-year-old boy died at the scene. The

A pedestrian was killed in a crash early Sunday morning near the intersection of Avent Drive and Palm Hills Drive near NAS Jax, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office. JSO’s Traffic Homicide Unit says the incident happened at approximately 12:04 a.m. A driver going eastbound on Avent Drive struck a pedestrian walking in the roadway near Palm Hills Drive. The pedestrian was transported to a local hospital by Jacksonville Fire Rescue but was pronounced dead shortly after arrival. This fatality

Hendry County Sheriff’s Office deputies and other first responders are on scene of a traffic crash in the area of West State Road 80 and Birchwood, according to deputies. Traffic in the area is being rerouted while crews work the scene. Drivers are urged to use extreme caution and find alternate routes if possible. No information has been released about injuries or how many vehicles were involved. Deputies say updates will be provided as more details become available Compensation You

At approximately 3 a.m. Sunday, Lee County deputies responded to a shooting in the 600 block of Jackson Avenue in Lehigh Acres. One victim was hurt but is expected to survive. An additional scene related to the incident was located in the 200 block of Joel Boulevard, according to the Lee County Sheriff’s Office. Neighbors initially mistook the sounds for fireworks until they heard three loud bangs. “I got woken up by three round bursts of gunshots, and then one