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JACKSON COUNTY, Fla. (WMBB) – A Clarksville man has died following a traffic crash in Bascom on Tuesday afternoon. According to the Florida Highway Patrol, shortly before 4 p.m., a 71-year-old man and a 61-year-old woman, both from Clarksville, were traveling north on County Road 165A, approaching Wolf Pond Road. Troopers reported that for unknown reasons, the truck lost control and overturned onto the road. The driver was thrown from the vehicle. Both were transported to a local hospital by

OSCEOLA COUNTY, Fla. — A mother was arrested Monday in Osceola County after she was accused of restraining a 10-year-old boy so other children could beat him, the sheriff’s office said. Deputies responded to the Heritage Park Apartment Complex in reference to an incident involving juveniles. Witnesses said there was a physical altercation involving a 10-year-old and a group of children playing at a community park nearby. According to the Osceola County Sheriff’s Office, one of the children involved left

Crash happened early Tuesday morning OLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. – The Volusia Sheriff’s Office released footage of an incident early Tuesday morning where a pickup truck struck a deputy’s patrol car. In a release, the VSO said the crash happened along Interstate 4 as the deputy headed back to his vehicle. At that moment, a pickup truck pulling a trailer is seen hitting the driver’s side of the patrol vehicle. “Could have been a tragedy, but instead, it’s the latest reminder to

SILVER SPRINGS, Fla. (WCJB) – Marion County Fire Rescue crews put out a semi-truck fire Tuesday afternoon. MCFR officials say crews responded to the 20000 block of East Highway 40 in Silver Springs just after 3 p.m. to reports of a vehicle on fire. Crews arrived to find a semi-truck on its side and on fire. Firefighters were able to quickly put out the fire before it could threaten the nearby woods. There were no injuries to the driver or

BELLE GLADE, Fla. (CBS12) — Palm Beach County Fire Rescue crews rushed to a commercial sugar plant early Tuesday morning after a fire broke out just before dawn, prompting evacuations and a second-alarm response. Firefighters were dispatched around 5:33 a.m. near 1500 George Wedgworth Way, where they arrived at a large industrial facility made up of multiple structures. According to Palm Beach County Fire Rescue, crews quickly located the building where the fire began and launched an aggressive suppression effort. Video taken

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. — A bachelor party trip to Miami Beach went seriously south after two friends started bickering over one of them scoring a monopoly on women’s attention, according to police. Authorities said it devolved into a stabbing on South Beach ― and a New England man on vacation found himself making a remote court appearance from a Miami hospital bed Tuesday morning. According to the Miami Beach Police Department, the stabbing happened just after 2:30 a.m. Sunday in

POMPANO BEACH, Fla. — A 26-year-old man has been arrested after he accidentally shot a woman Monday night while firing at a thief who stole from him in Pompano Beach, the Broward Sheriff’s Office said. According to BSO spokeswoman Claudinne Caro, the shooting occurred Monday night in the area of Northeast 19th Street and 25th Avenue. Caro said detectives learned that William Forhan was the victim of a grand theft, and then fired at the thief as the thief was

MIAMI (WSVN) – A Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office motorman has been hospitalized after being involved in a crash in Miami. City of Miami Police and Fire Rescue units responded to the area of Southwest 37th Avenue and 12th Street on Tuesday afternoon. According to Fire Rescue, the motorman may have been cut off, causing him to crash. 7News cameras captured a large police and fire rescue presence in the crash scene and paramedics placing the motorman in a gurney. His motorcycle

MIAMI (WSVN) – A worker for the Miami-Dade Water and Sewer Department was taken to the hospital after he came under fire during an altercation in North Miami-Dade. According to the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office and Fire Rescue, units were dispatched to reports of a shooting outside a townhome on Northwest 84th Street, off Fourth Avenue, just after 4:15 p.m. on Tuesday. Investigators said the vicim got into an argument with another man, and at one point, the other man pulled

ESCAMBIA COUNTY, Fla. — Deputies say the road rage encounter in Escambia County that ended in a shooting Tuesday afternoon will lead to the arrest of the person investigators say was the aggressor. Andrew Harvey will be charged with simple assault, battery, and damage to property in connection with the incident, according to the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office. Deputies reported that the man who fired the shots had his family in his vehicle with him. ESCAMBIA COUNTY, Fla. — A

ESCAMBIA COUNTY, Fla. — A 37-year-old Pensacola man is seriously injured after crashing into Bayou Chico Creek and becoming trapped in a submerged vehicle in Escambia County on Sunday night. The incident occurred at 9 p.m. near the intersection of US 98 (SR 30) and SR 295, Navy Boulevard. The man was traveling east in the westbound lanes of US 98 at a high rate of speed in a white Mercedes sedan, according to FHP. Troopers say the vehicle ran

COLLIER COUNTY, Fla. — One person is confirmed dead and one person was arrested on a DUI manslaughter charge after a crash on southbound Interstate 75 in Collier County on Wednesday morning. According to the Florida Highway Patrol, troopers are investigating a three-vehicle crash on southbound I-75 at Mile Marker 110. The FHP said a vehicle was driving the wrong way, going northbound on southbound I-75. Two other vehicles were traveling southbound on I-75 when Taylor crashed into them. One