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A 49-year-old man is dead after getting hit by a car while riding a scooter Friday morning, according to the Port St. Lucie Police Department. A Mercedes was traveling westbound near the intersection of SE Crosstown Parkway and SE Sandia Drive when the driver hit a scooter that was using a crosswalk going north on Crosstown Parkway. The scooterist was hit by the car in the outside lane of travel and ejected. He was taken to the hospital for severe

A deadly collision between a bicyclist and a car early Friday morning in Jupiter prompted a road closure, which lasted for just over four hours. Palm Beach County Fire Rescue (PBCFR) said that they responded to the crash at around 1:30 a.m. near Indiantown Road and Taylor Road. Upon arrival, emergency units reported learning that the crash involved a bicyclist and a car. Unfortunately, PBCFR said that one person was pronounced dead at the scene. Following the crash, the Palm

The U.S. Coast Guard has referred its investigation into the deadly July boat collision near Hibiscus Island to the Department of Justice for possible criminal prosecution, officials announced Thursday. According to Coast Guard Sector Miami, the referral seeks potential charges under 18 U.S.C. § 1115, known as seaman’s manslaughter, against individuals associated with the towing company that operated the barge involved in the crash. The July 28 collision between a barge pushed by the uninspected towing vessel Wood Chuck and a small

 An 18-year-old is dead, and a 21-year-old has been arrested following a single car DUI crash in Largo early Sunday morning. The Largo Police Department said the crash happened around 4 a.m. in the area of 58th Street North and Eicart Crossing. AV, the driver, has been arrested and charged with vehicular homicide, as well as DUI manslaughter. An arrest affidavit for V shows he was driving nearly 80 miles per hour in a 30 miles per hour zone, collided

Photo by: villages-news A passenger suffered a broken ankle in a golf cart rollover in The Villages. A man driving a Nissan Pathfinder nosed out onto Morse Boulevard from Carrera Drive near the postal station at about 3 p.m. Thursday prompting a man driving a golf cart southbound in the golf cart lane on Morse Boulevard to swerve to avoid a collision, according to the Sumter County Sheriff’s Office. The golf cart driver overcorrected and the golf cart flipped over

The Brief An Orlando man fired nearly three dozen bullets in the direction of a woman and her 17-year-old son because he was angry that he was apparently cut off while driving, according to an arrest affidavit. J’J, 22, was arrested and booked into jail on charges of aggravated assault with a firearm and discharging a firearm in public. Affidavit: Angry over being cut off on the road What we know: The Orange County Sheriff’s office responded to a reported

A Chipley woman was arrested Friday for allegedly crashing a UTV under the influence, causing serious injuries to another. According to court documents, shortly after 9 p.m. on Sept. 3, 26-year-old JBP was driving a UTV on Gainer Road when she crashed. Washington County Sheriff deputies said as a result, the passenger, a local teacher, Katelyn Faith King, was ejected from the UTV. King was airlifted to a hospital in Dothan with significant bodily injury that included two fractures to

 A fleeing car crashed, snarling traffic at one of the busiest I-4 interchanges in Central Florida. The crash happened Thursday in the westbound lanes of I-4 at County Road 532 in the ChampionsGate area. Three lanes and the exit off-ramp were closed but later reopened. The Florida Highway Patrol says the car, a Nissan Sentra, was fleeing a traffic stop by one of the agency’s troopers. One male was arrested, but two others ran off, and law enforcement officials are

Marion County Sheriff’s deputies arrested a 17-year-old accused of opening fire at a bonfire party celebrating homecoming for a high school in Marion County. Sheriff’s deputies charged ZS, 17, with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, possession of a firearm by a felon, possession of a firearm by a minor, carrying a concealed firearm, public discharge of a firearm, and use of a firearm during the commission of a felony. Investigators say S fired multiple shots at another teenager at a bonfire

Fire crews were able to extinguish a house fire in Miramar. Miramar Police and Fire Rescue units responded to the scene of the blaze along the 2000 block of Arcadia Drive, Thursday evening. “A lot, a lot of smoke. The power went out,” said a neighbor who identified herself as Bridget. 7News cameras captured firefighters fighting the flames and then later cleaning up their equipment after the fire was out. No one was home at the time of the fire,

The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office said a man died Thursday afternoon after he was stabbed inside the Anheuser-Busch facility. According to police, the incident occurred around 4:45 p.m. on Busch Drive, and when officers arrived at the scene, they found the man with a single stab wound to his chest. After he was taken to the hospital by medical crews with the Jacksonville Fire Rescue Department, he later died at the hospital, JSO said. The investigation into the matter is ongoing,

A man was wounded and another was injured after a fight devolved into a shooting on Friday night in Fort Lauderdale’s Melrose Park neighborhood, near Plantation. Police officers responded to a report of a shooting at about 10:30 p.m. on Friday, outside of the Kwik Pick Food Market at 3870 SW 2 Court. “One person was shot. The other involved party sustained injuries, however, not from a gunshot. Both parties are being treated at area hospitals,” Officer Chavez Grant, a