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A 68-year-old man was struck and killed by a Brightline train after trying to get around lowered railroad safety arms that blocked the train tracks on Friday afternoon. The Boynton Beach Police Department (BBPD) said at around 12:15 p.m., the Lantana man was stopped at the FEC tracks crossing and SE 23rd Street as the railroad crossing gate arms lowered, signaling an oncoming train. According to a preliminary investigation, the man attempted to drive his white BMW around the closed

A man was arrested after police say he entered a woman’s home naked, jumped on her and said he was Satan, and that it would be her last day on Earth, according to an arrest report.  Roberlandys Peña, 26, is the man accused of entering the victim’s home on Wednesday at a Hialeah apartment complex while she stepped out to fix her key card. When she came back, she saw him naked and in her room, police said.    “That man

Two people were found dead Friday after police responded to a “suspicious call involving gunshots” at a Miramar apartment complex, a spokesperson for the city’s police department said. Miramar police Detective Yessenia Diaz said the crime scene was in the 6000 block of Southwest 36th Court. The victims were adults, she said. Authorities didn’t provide additional information, including the victims’ identities or whether a suspect or suspects was identified or in custody. Residents at the apartment building said the victims

Source: wsvn Three people were transported to the hospital after a car rolled over on Interstate Interstate 595 in Davie. Davie Fire Rescue and the Florida Highway Patrol arrived at the scene in the westbound lanes of I-595 east of Southwest 137th Avenue, Friday afternoon. 7Skyforce hovered over the scene, where a vehicle was flipped on its side. According to officials, there were five people that they were concerned about but only three needed to be transported to the hospital

A woman is accused of stabbing a man in the parking lot of a Flanigan’s restaurant with a potentially lethal level of alcohol in her blood system. The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office (PBSO) said deputies arrived at the restaurant in Lake Worth on Wednesday and found the suspect,Jane Belanger-Trongone, in just a blood-stained shirt, appearing confused and hesitant to explain the situation. The victim was found standing across the parking lot, with a severe stab wound to his stomach,

State troopers arrested a northeast Miami-Dade man on a vehicular homicide charge Thursday; they say he was driving a Tesla more than double the speed limit on Interstate 95 seconds before he slammed into a Jeep in 2023, killing one person and injuring another. The crash happened around 3:15 a.m. on July 2, 2023 in the freeway’s northbound lanes, between Miami Gardens Drive and Ives Dairy Road. Authorities said vehicle data showed that Michael Joseph Genao, 26, was driving a Tesla Model

Five people were found dead after Hurricane Helene struck Pinellas County on Thursday. “Sadly, five lives were lost overnight,” Pinellas County Emergency Management Director Cathie Perkins said in a news conference. Two deaths occurred on Treasure Island, two in Indian Rocks Beach and one in Dunedin. They were found by search and rescue crews on Friday morning. Officials said two deaths are believed to have been drownings. The other three are under investigation. “It’s hard, but we will continue to

Two men were arrested following a shots fired incident early Friday morning in Pensacola. Dylan Smith-Rohde, 24, is charged with aggravated assault with a weapon and aggravated battery. Zachary Smith-Rohde, 24, is charged with aggravated battery and resisting arrest. The incident happened around 2:45 a.m. on Cervantes Street near 7th Avenue. According to police, an argument took place before gunshots were exchanged. No one was hit by a bullet, although one person sustained injuries from another item. Police did not

Photo by: clickorlando The roof of a home in Apopka was torn off Thursday evening as heavy winds blew through the area, just hours ahead of Hurricane Helene’s landfall in Florida. News 6 reporter Treasure Roberts visited the home shortly afterward, discovering that wind had taken the roof off the mobile home. “(The residents) told me they felt like it was a ‘microburst’ that came up,” Roberts explained. Debris from the roof littered the surrounding property, falling atop a nearby car. “This

A burglary call led to a shootout with police in Pomona Park on Thursday night. The Putnam County Sheriff’s Office was called to a home on East Main Street. Neighbors told deputies they heard gunshots before they got there. A man barricaded himself inside the house and refused to come out. The SWAT team was called. Deputies said the man fired shots at them. Deputies returned fire. When they went inside, they said they found the man dead. The Sheriff’s

Photo by:The Associated Press A wounded man remained hospitalized early Friday morning in Miami-Dade County after a police pursuit ended with a car crash and a shooting. According to Detective Angel Rodriguez, a spokesman for the Miami-Dade Police Department, Antonio Vance, a 15-year-old boy, and others were in a dark blue Mercedes-Benz sedan when police officers ordered them to stop shortly after 11:15 p.m., near Northwest 37 Avenue and 145 Street. Rodriguez identified Vance, 21, as the driver. There was

Photo by: nbcmiami Two people were killed in a house fire in Brownsville early Friday. It happened at a home on NW 19th Avenue and NW 53rd Street at around 3 a.m. Two people who lived in the home, a man and a woman, were pulled from the residence and taken to Ryder Trauma Center, Miami-Dade police said, but they did not survive. It’s unclear how many other people were inside at the time of the fire. Images also show