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A 68-year-old man was arrested after driving past construction barricades and hitting two construction workers, according to the Florida Highway Patrol (FHP). FHP said that Charles Edward Kunath, of Palm Harbor, drove up to a road being worked on by Pinellas County construction workers. The road had been flooded and partially washed out. Kunath drove around the barricades and vehicles that indicated the road was closed, even though workers flagged him to stop. FHP said that’s when he collided with

According to police, a man who teamed up with a friend to shoot up a home in North Miami Beach wound up getting shot himself — by his partner-in-crime. Authorities arrested Steeve Jean-Charles, 22, of North Miami, after his discharge from HCA Florida Aventura Hospital on Thursday. He’s facing charges of attempted murder, felon in possession of a firearm and shooting or throwing a deadly missile. North Miami Beach police said the shooting happened just after 4:22 a.m. Monday at

A Florida man received life in prison Friday morning after killing his pregnant stepmother over five years ago, according to the State Attorney’s Office. The attack happened in March 2019, Ian Magnus Anselmo, 26, strangled his stepmother at the Greenwood Cemetery in Lake County. Afterward, officers received a 911 call and when they arrived, they found the stepmother bleeding in her car with a cord draped over her shoulder, the release shows. Despite attempts to save her life, the stepmother

A deputy rescued a man after coming across a truck fire on his way to work. While on his way to work on October 13, a Palm Beach County Sheriff’s deputy came across a burning truck on the southbound shoulder of I-95 near Becker Road in Port St. Lucie while on the way to work. Though a shocking scene, Deputy Crafa pulled his patrol vehicle to the scene of the single-vehicle crash. At the same moment, the passenger of the

A 14-year-old student from Palm Beach Lakes High School was arrested on Friday in connection to a shooting that injured an 11-year-old boy. The West Palm Beach Police Department (WPBPD) said the teenage boy was arrested on school grounds after detectives determined the student was the person who pulled the trigger. Following an investigation, detectives said the victim was sitting on a couch inside a home in West Palm Beach when the gun went off across the room on October 14.

Two people were taken into custody and a third was being sought after a shooting in a Hialeah neighborhood on Friday. Hialeah Police officials said they received several 911 calls about shots being fired in the area of W. 54th Street and 21st Court. Officers responded and set up a perimeter after witnesses told them they saw three males run from the scene on foot. Two of the males were detained but the third couldn’t be found. Police said bullet

Photo by: Apopka Police Department Apopka police are looking for a Ford Mustang that investigators say was involved in a hit-and-run crash in September. Officers are also hoping to identify the tow truck that hauled the Ford away, the police department said on social media. The crash occurred Sept. 17 on Main Street in downtown Apopka, the post states. Included photos depict a dark-in-color Mustang — with what appears to be lighter-in-color racing stripes on the hood — being towed by

A man was shot early Thursday morning behind a Miami Gardens supermarket, prompting a police investigation that led to the arrest of a 27-year-old woman, authorities confirmed Friday. Miami Gardens police said officers responded to a call around 4:10 a.m. after receiving reports of a man being shot at the rear parking lot of the Winn-Dixie at 17221 NW 27th Ave. The victim, who has not been identified, was found with gunshot wounds to his head and left shoulder, according

Photo by: Hillsborough County Fire-Rescue Firefighters were called to a scrap yard in Tampa after debris caught fire early Friday morning. Hillsborough County Fire Rescue said they received multiple 911 calls reporting heavy smoke and flames at Scrap King, located at 5020 Dover Street, around 6:21 a.m. When crews arrived, they found multiple large piles of scrap material engulfed in flames across the property. Firefighters were able to get the fire under control in under an hour. There were no

A 29-year-old woman is facing a first-degree felony charge after Miami police said she viciously attacked a senior walking in the city’s Little Havana neighborhood Thursday. Police said at around 10:40 a.m., Cassandra Josephine Nieves first approached another woman who was waiting for food at La Esquina del Pan con Bistec restaurant at 1190 W. Flagler St. and punched her multiple times after yelling, “You raped him, I know you did.” Authorities said Nieves, who is homeless, then walked down

A Homestead father has admitted to fatally injuring his 7-month-old son who was hospitalized with multiple fractures and a brain bleed before succumbing to his injuries two weeks ago, the Miami-Dade Police Department confirmed in an arrest report on Friday. Police said the investigation began on Oct. 2, when the MDPD’s Homicide Bureau was alerted to a suspected aggravated child abuse case involving the infant, who had been admitted to Baptist Health Homestead Hospital in critical condition. Investigators were first

A 19-year-old was killed in a Palm Harbor intersection on Thursday evening after slamming into another vehicle, the Florida Highway Patrol reported. At 7:40 p.m., the teen, from Holiday, was traveling northbound on US-19 on a Honda CBR sportbike. At the same time, an 85-year-old Palm Harbor man driving a Chrysler Pacifica was traveling southbound on US-19. FHP said that at the intersection of Highlands Boulevard, the 85-year-old man went to make a left turn as the motorcycle traveled through