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Photo by: wsvn  A cyclist is hospitalized after being involved in a hit-and-run in Oakland Park. Around 6:30 a.m., Friday, Deputies responded to a hit-and-run crash near Northwest Sixth Avenue and West Oakland Park Boulevard where they say a man was struck by a vehicle while riding a bike. When they arrived they located the victim and he was transported to a nearby hospital. Investigators are now looking for the driver, who they say fled the scene in a gray

Photo by: nbc-2 Two people died after a red SUV crashed into a building in Immokalee on Friday morning. The driver of the SUV at fault was 24-year-old Walner Nelson of Immokalee, who was arrested and faces DUI manslaughter charges. According to the Florida Highway Patrol, the SUV crashed into the Physical Therapy Center of Immokalee building at 212 S First St. FHP said the SUV traveled off the roadway and entered the parking lot before colliding with two unoccupied

Pasco County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a shooting that happened in the Low Country Pl. area of Wesley Chapel around 6:15 p.m. Thursday evening. PCSO said that a preliminary investigation revealed an argument between two men who knew each other escalated and the men exchanged gunfire. One of the men was shot and taken to a local hospital. The suspect left in a car before deputies arrived on scene. PCSO said this appears to be an isolated incident and there

One person passed away during a construction accident at Tampa International Airport on July 31. Officials say he tried escaping the excavator before the fatal fall. According to a statement from TPA, airport police received reports about the incident around 7:41 a.m. Officials said the accident involved a construction equipment operator working as part of the Airside A shuttle guideway renovation project. Some construction equipment reportedly fell off the shuttle track with the operator still inside. Officials said that Cesar

Margaret A. Gissome, 35, of Belle Glade was arrested Wednesday and charged with one count of child abuse. A report from the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office notes that Gissome is accused of punching a child in the face for providing wrong answers to homework. The child sustained visible injuries to her eyes and lip. Gissome is also accused of shaking the child. Gissome was released from the Palm Beach County Jail Friday on $2,500 bond and was ordered not

Video of an aggressive throw by a Miami-Dade Schools police officer shows a Miami Edison Senior High School student being tossed in the air head over heels before landing on the ground. The incident, all captured on cellphone video, occurred when 15-year-old Ikeria Tate said officers were responding to a fight outside the Little Haiti school’s locker rooms after a football game on Wednesday. “He should’ve never (done) that,” Tate said. “He had grabbed me and slammed me on the

The man accused of driving the wrong way and then fleeing the scene of a crash that killed popular TikTok personality Ali Spice and two others pleaded no contest Friday to charges that could send him to prison for life. Thomas Petry, 55, of Orange City, was driving a pickup truck westbound in the eastbound lane on State Road 44 just east of Interstate 4 on Dec. 11, 2022, when the truck collided head-on with an Infiniti Q50, according to police. Three passengers in the Infiniti

Police are investigating after a man was shot and killed in West Little River in northwest Miami-Dade on Friday morning. Miami-Dade Police officials said officers responded to a ShotSpotter alert happened around 6:30 a.m. in the 900 block Northwest 80th Street. Once there, first responders found the victim and took him to Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center in critical condition. He later died. Police did not immediately share more information about a potential motive or suspect. Officials were investigating another shooting

A 20-year-old man from Jacksonville died in a crash on State Road 23, also known as First Coast Expressway, Thursday evening, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. Troopers said around 6:30 p.m., the 20-year-old was driving southbound in the outside lane of SR-23, approaching Mile Marker 34. Meanwhile, a pickup truck was parked in the outside lane of the road behind a coned-off accident scene, and another car was parked in front of it. According to FHP, the man continued

On Thursday the Florida Highway Patrol Homicide Division arrested the 17 Year old involved in last week’s deadly Lehigh Acres State Road 82 Crash. The 17 Year old has been charged with the following: Last friday night A 17-year-old passenger from Lehigh Acres was ejected from the car and died after an accident involving four vehicles.Florida Highway Patrol says the teen was a passenger in a car with the 17-year-old driver that has now been arrested. The car approached Harcourt

Springfield police are investigating a car accident Thursday night that sent a local man to the hospital. He was hit while walking his dogs. The accident happened around 8:30 Thursday. Springfield Assistant Police Chief Russell Voyles said the man was walking his two dogs when he was hit by a car on Douglas Road. One of the dogs ran away. They are still searching for the puppy at this time. Chief Voyles said witnesses saw a car in the area,

Photo by: WFTS An assistant professor at The University of South Florida and his wife lost their home after a fire destroyed it last month. The tragedy struck weeks before the couple was expecting their first child. The fire started on August 27 around 11:00 a.m. at their home in St. Petersburg. Tony Pham said he removed clothes from the dryer and was inside the home. “I was getting my clothes out of the dryer then I went to my