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The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is investigating a boating incident in North Matlacha Pass on Saturday night. FWC, The Lee County Sheriff’s Office, the U.S. Coast Guard and Pine Island Fire Rescue responded to the scene. One boat was idling in North Matlacha, and four individuals were in the vessel. Another boat then struck the vessel and left the scene after the collision, leaving the family to fend for themselves until help arrived. One occupant sustained minor injuries. Boaters in the Matlacha community are concerned.

 A 66-year-old man has been accused of attempted murder after he shot a man in Royal Palm Beach. The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office (PBSO) stated that on Saturday at around 6:45 p.m., deputies and Palm Beach County Fire Rescue had responded to a shooting in the 100 block of Sandpiper Avenue near Commons Park. When officials arrived on the scene, they reported finding a man with a gunshot wound. Deputies stated that they found the suspect, identified as Johnny

 A crash in Loxahatchee on Saturday night claimed the life of a 16-year-old boy driving an off-road bike. The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office (PBSO) crash report states that at around 8 p.m., a boy was driving eastbound on a Yamaha off-road bike on 60th Street North, just west of Seminole Pratt Whitney Road. Officials stated that the boy attempted to pass the car driving in front of him using the westbound lane, moving directly into the path of an

A man died and another was injured during a shooting on Sunday morning outside of the Tropicana Bar & Lounge in northwestern Miami-Dade County, police said. Miami-Dade Fire Rescue personnel responded to the crime scene, just at the boundary of the Gladeview and West Little River neighborhoods and declared 45-year-old Travis Sentell Sims dead. A yellow tarp covered his body. According to Detective Angel Rodriguez, a spokesman for the Miami-Dade Police Department, police officers responded to a ShotSpotter alert at

Interstate 95 southbound closed on Sunday in Miami-Dade County after a Tropic Oil tanker truck rolled over and fuel spilled. Florida Highway Patrol troopers closed I-95′s southbound lanes from Northwest 103 Street, near Miami Shores and Pinewood, to 125 Street in North Miami. Miami-Dade County firefighters also responded and spent hours cleaning up the fuel on I-95 at Northwest 119 Street. The Medley-based Tropic Oil Company supplies fuel and oil across Florida and is a Mobil distributor. Truck accidents often result in

Authorities are investigating after they said a 29-year-old man was killed and a woman was hurt following a hit-and-run crash involving three vehicles in Miami early Monday morning. Police officers responded to the crash just after 3:30 a.m. at Southwest 43rd Avenue and Eighth Street, near LeJeune Road in the city’s Little Gables area, according to Detective Angel Rodriguez, a spokesperson for the Miami-Dade Police Department. Miami Fire Rescue confirmed a man in one of the vehicles involved in the

Deputies had to evacuate a mobile home in DeLand after stray bullets from a nearby intoxicated shooter hit the residence Sunday. The Volusia County Sheriff’s Office responded to the scene after a mobile home was hit with shots. Inside the house were three adults and two children. Deputies said they were able to determine the shots were from a nearby resident who was shooting at a tree while intoxicated. He fired about a dozen rounds. The intoxicated man missed a

Florida Highway Patrol is investigating the cause of a crash that killed a woman on the Florida Turnpike in Lake County Saturday night. Troopers said the crash happened in the northbound lanes of the Florida Turnpike near mile marker 283 in Lake County. The driver of a 2021 Buick Enclave traveling north failed to negotiate a curve and entered the inside paved shoulder of the roadway. As a result, the SUV struck the concrete traffic barrier before rotating and hitting

An Orange City man riding an electric-powered bicycle was killed in a head-on collision with a vehicle traveling in the wrong direction, police said. The crash occurred at 8:29 p.m. in the area of East Graves Avenue and Raintree Drive, according to Orange City police. The rider of the bicycle was identified as Joel Acevedo, 35, who died at the scene of the crash. The driver of the car that struck him was identified as Robert David Halpern, 81. He was taken

A 44-year-old Brooksville man died in a motorcycle accident early Sunday morning. According to the Florida Highway Patrol, the incident occurred around 2:36 AM in the 15000 block of Old Dixie Highway. The 44-year-old man was traveling northbound on a Harley Davidson motorcycle when he lost control of the vehicle. The motorcycle veered to the left shoulder and collided with a Suzuki Sidekick and a Chevy S10 Blazer, both parked and unoccupied in the driveway of 15521 Old Dixie Highway.

Bradenton Police and The Manatee Homicide Task Force continue to investigate the fatal shooting of a teenager near the Palma Sola Causeway Saturday morning. Investigators said they were initially called to the eight thousand block of Manatee Avenue West after receiving reports of gunshots. When police arrived, they said they discovered the body of 16-year-old Martavious Carter who’d been fatally shot. Investigators think Carter was picked up in Manatee County earlier Friday evening, then driven to a secluded area near

The driver accused of killing a bicycle rider in a hit-and-run crash had run a red light at the intersection and was going nearly 100 mph around the time of the collision, the probable cause affidavit against him alleged. The driver, who was identified as Jeremiah Marroquin, made no evasive maneuvers prior to the May 3 crash and would have certainly known he hit something, investigators determined. Karlissa King, the 35-year-old woman riding the bicycle, was pronounced dead at the