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Photo by: (WPEC)  A Riviera Beach police officer is being praised for his quick action after spotting a truck on fire outside a home Sunday morning and helping save a sleeping family inside. Body camera video obtained by CBS12 News shows Officer Andrew Hinds rushing toward the flames just after 10 a.m. on West 26th Court, where a white pickup truck was fully engulfed. “We were doing traffic patrol and looked up and saw smoke coming from a house,” Hinds

 Investigators are working to identify the shooter after a man was killed and a woman was wounded in Lake Worth Beach on Saturday night. On Saturday, deputies with the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office (PBSO) say they responded to reports of a shooting on the 1700 block of Tropical Drive in Lake Worth Beach at 7:10 p.m. Upon arrival, deputies say they found two victims — a woman and a man — suffering gunshot wounds. The man was pronounced dead

A four-vehicle crash with injuries shut down parts of Palm Avenue in Miramar on Saturday, police said. According to Miramar police, northbound lanes of Palm Avenue from Miramar Parkway and southbound lanes from Pembroke Road are closed. Drivers are being asked to avoid the area and use alternate routes. Traffic units remain on scene as the investigation continues. Personalized Legal Strategies for Car Accident Victims Every car accident case is unique, and at Ovadia Law Group, we treat it that way. Our

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

A death investigation is underway in Miami-Dade County. Authorities rushed to the area of the 1800 block of Northwest 70th Street around 4:15 a.m. Sunday. They said they found a man suffering from stab wounds and rushed him to Ryder Trauma Center at Jackson Memorial Hospital in critical condition, but despite medical treatment, he succumbed to his wounds. Family members identified the victim as S C. “Somebody killed my child down there, but the system already killed him because if

Photo by: Miami-Dade Fire Rescue  Two people were hospitalized after a rollover crash in southwest Miami-Dade early Sunday morning, authorities said. Miami-Dade Fire Rescue crews responded to the area of Southwest 197th Street and Grossman Drive, where they found a vehicle flipped upside down after striking several trees. Firefighters worked to free both occupants, who were trapped inside the wreckage. The victims were airlifted to a nearby hospital, officials said. Their conditions have not yet been released, and the cause

The man accused of opening fire at a birthday celebration, injuring three people, is now behind bars after a nearly 24-hour manhunt, police said. Miami-Dade Police arrested AG Saturday morning outside a Comfort Suites hotel in Kendall. Investigators said the 38-year-old is responsible for shooting three people during a 75th birthday party for his neighbor, at around 10 a.m. Friday. Among the victims was the birthday’s 75-year-old honoree, her son, 53-year-old Manuel Acosta, and their neighbor, 26-year-old Kevin Garcia Marquez.

Photo by: Associated Press A commercial truck driver who is charged with killing three people in a deadly crash in Florida in August had failed a commercial driver’s license test 10 times in the span of two months in 2023 in Washington state, before he was ultimately issued a license, according to a senior official in the Florida Attorney General’s Office. Florida is using the case of Harjinder Singh, who is accused of being in the country illegally, to urge

Picture courtesy NorthEscambia.com  A 70-year-old Pensacola woman was critically injured in a crash Friday afternoon in Escambia County. It happened around 3:20 p.m. at the intersection of Highway 29 and Highway 97 in Molino. According to Florida Highway Patrol, the 70-year-old woman was traveling north on Highway 29 in her SUV in the left turn lane when she failed yield to oncoming traffic and initiated a left turn. An oncoming SUV driven by a 46-year-old Pensacola man then collided with

 One 16-year-old is charged and another 16-year-old is critically injured after an accidental shooting at a party in Escambia County early Sunday morning, according to the sheriff’s office. It happened around 12:05 a.m. near South Highway 99 and Morgan Road in the Walnut Hill area. Deputies say the teen who discharged the firearm has been charged with grand theft of a firearm and possession of a firearm by a minor. However, he is not charged with the shooting itself, according

A pregnant woman was sent to the hospital following a crash on Saturday. The crash happened on Laurie Avenue in Bay County after 4 p.m. State troopers tell us it involved a pregnant woman who was taken to Bay Medical. This was also a single-vehicle crash, according to state troopers. Authorities were told the crash happened when the operator of the motorcycle, a male, tried to avoid another motorcycle and then overturned and skidded across the street. We will keep

Photo by: (WJXT)  A 20-year-old man and a 35-year-old woman suffered critical injuries Sunday afternoon when the SUV the man was driving flipped onto the woman’s car in the oncoming lane of Normandy Boulevard, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. Troopers said the man and a 20-year-old woman who was riding in his SUV were headed west on Normandy Boulevard around 3 p.m., when the SUV started to sideswipe a raised concrete barrier on the north shoulder west of Cecil