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The Brief A Florida man has been arrested on several attempted murder charges after he allegedly fired shots at his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend earlier this month in Osceola County. What we know: Officers with the Orlando Police Department (OPD) responded to a civil dispute involving children and domestic battery on Sept. 7 at a complex off South Semoran Boulevard in Osceola County.  Once police arrived at the scene, they said they spoke with a woman and her boyfriend who said the

The Brief A motorcyclist is dead, and his passengers suffered serious injuries in a crash on Thursday morning in Hudson.  According to the Florida Highway Patrol, a 33-year-old New Port Richey man was traveling eastbound on New York Avenue shortly after 11:30 a.m. as an 80-year-old Hudson woman in an Infiniti M35 was traveling westbound on New York Avenue.  At the intersection of US-19, troopers say the Hudson woman turned in front of the motorcyclist and he crashed into her

Photo by: nbcmiami A dump truck driver was killed in a rollover crash on an exit ramp to Interstate 595 from the Florida’s Turnpike in Davie on Thursday. The crash happened around 11:40 a.m. when the dump truck’s driver somehow lost control on the ramp from the southbound Turnpike lanes to I-595, Florida Highway Patrol officials said. The truck hit a concrete barrier wall, rotated clockwise and overturned onto its left side. The driver wasn’t wearing a safety belt and

A man was fatally shot on Thursday morning in Belle Glade. The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office (PBSO) said its detectives are investigating a deadly shooting that occurred early Thursday morning in Belle Glade. PBSO said deputies responded to a ShotSpotter alert on NW 8th Street, off Avenue A, at around dawn on September 18. When they arrived, they found a man suffering from gunshot wounds. Deputies attempted life-saving measures until Palm Beach County Fire Rescue arrived, but paramedics pronounced

The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office (PBSO) is looking for a man accused of aggravated battery on a Palm Tran bus driver. The sheriff’s office says the man assaulted the bus driver on Tuesday at about 4 p.m., at the intersection of 6th Avenue South and H Street in Lake Worth Beach. Photos provided by PBSO show a man with locs, a slight beard and wearing a black shirt with pink or red stripes. Anyone with information about the incident

Photo by: (WPTV) Fire rescue crews estimate over two dozen people are being treated after pepper spray was used during a fight at a Florida high school. Palm Beach County Fire Rescue was called to Lake Worth High School at around 12:30 p.m. on Thursday for an incident “involving a fight and pepper spray.” A PCBFR spokesman said a total of 44 fire rescue and private ambulances responded to the school. As of around 2 p.m., a total of 32

A 42-year-old man appeared in Miami-Dade County court on Thursday after police officers accused him of child abuse in Miami’s Little Havana neighborhood. Police officers arrested AZ on Wednesday after questioning him for domestic violence that he admitted was related to alcohol abuse, according to a police arrest report. In a case on July 22, Z admitted to drinking Four Loko and said the alcoholic drinks later prompted him to feel “very, very irate,” a Miami police officer wrote in

A homeless woman is facing two felony charges after Miami-Dade deputies said she assaulted and robbed an 89-year-old disabled man on Wednesday. An arrest report states that RWL, 27, approached the senior in the area of Northwest 47th Street and 27th Avenue, in the unincorporated Brownsville area, as he went to a nearby store. Authorities said L “pushed him out of the wheelchair and down to the ground” and then “began making demands for the victim’s property and hitting him

A Bonita Springs man was arrested after he was accused of fatally stabbing a woman more than 25 times at a home in the Paloma community off Imperial Parkway Wednesday. According to the Lee County Sheriff’s Office, a delivery driver was flagged down by SC, 71, who was seen covered in blood, and led the driver to the home on Saint Michael where the woman was stabbed to death. Deputies described the scene as chaotic, with children found with blood

Photo by: ECFR  A T-bone crash in Escambia County early Thursday morning resulted in multiple injuries and left one person trapped inside a vehicle, according to Escambia County Fire Rescue. Emergency crews say the incident occurred at 2:41 a.m. at the intersection of E. Nine Mile Road and Palafox Street. when ECFR units responded to the scene. Upon arrival, units confirmed the severity of the crash and began efforts to extricate the trapped occupant. ECFR stated they performed a partial

 The Clay County Sheriff’s Office shared new details Thursday of the investigation into a baffling quadruple shooting on Monday morning inside a home that left two people dead, including the suspect. According to the sheriff’s office, MVL, 45, fired multiple rounds inside a home on Pine Oaks Lane in Middleburg, where eight people lived. A 39-year-old woman was killed, and VL was fatally wounded in the encounter. A release from CCSO recounted what investigators learned about the strange events that

Photo by: (Florida Department of Transportation) A crash with injuries was blocking all lanes of I-95 southbound at Mile Marker 319, which is just north of the St. Augustine outlet malls, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. The lanes have since reopened. According to the preliminary report from the Florida Highway Patrol, the crash involved two semi-trucks. The report says a blue cab semi was traveling southbound on I-95 in the right lane. A white semi cab with no attached