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A single-vehicle crash took place Wednesday afternoon in northeast Leon County, leaving a 19-year-old dead, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. FHP has identified the driver as a 19-year-old male from Thomasville. FHP received a report regarding the crash, which FHP said happened on Thomasville Road northbound at Cherokee Plantation Road, around 2:34 p.m. Wednesday. The vehicle was traveling northbound on US 319 at Cherokee Plantation Road before FHP said it traveled onto the median and up an embankment. The

Deputies are investigating after a man was shot and killed in an Orange County neighborhood. The shooting happened shortly after midnight at the intersection of 35th Street and Woods Avenue, an area just south of downtown Orlando. The Orange County Sheriff’s Office said deputies responded to the area and found a man in his 30s who had been shot. The man was taken to the hospital, where he died, officials said.   The victim was identified as 36-year-old Vicente Nuno

Guilty as charged. That’s the decision that just came down from a jury weighing whether Bruce Whitehead sexually battered and tried to kill a woman in Orange County. “I’m not a saint, obviously,” Whitehead told the judge Wednesday before his conviction. “I’m not looking to walk out the door and go home. I know that’s impossible.” Whitehead’s victim told jurors Tuesday that he cut her, tried to bite off body parts, sexually battered her – and that she only got

A man accused of robbing and killing a Leesburg store owner has been arrested nearly a month after the murder, officials said.  Alez Lopez, 25, of Wildwood, was arrested by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement in the Kissimmee area on Wednesday. He is accused of walking into the M&M Food Mart and killing 51-year-old Raied Shihadeh, who was working the register on May 30.  The robbery, which happened just after 9 p.m., left Shihadeh’s family devastated, who raised money to help

Photo by: WPLG The Florida Highway Patrol is investigating a fatal crash that occurred Thursday morning in Fort Lauderdale. According to an FHP news release, the crash, which involved a 2020 white Cadillac SUV and a pedestrian, occurred just before 5:15 a.m. on the southbound Interstate 95 exit ramp to the eastbound lanes of Interstate 595. Troopers said the pedestrian, identified only as a 43-year-old Black man from Lauderdale Lakes, crossed over the travel lanes of the exit ramp for

The daughter of a candidate for sheriff of Dixie County has been sentenced to spend two years in prison on child abuse and drug charges. Deputies arrested Sara Ridgeway, 43, more than a year ago after they say they found her passed out in her car from using heroin. A young child was also in the car. Ridgeway is the daughter of Julie Herring, who is currently running for sheriff in Dixie County. Compassionate Legal Advocacy for Child Abuse Victims

A person died after a shooting on Wednesday night in Pompano Beach. The fatal shooting was at about 7:15 p.m., along Northwest Sixth Street, between Northwest 27 and 24 Avenues. Broward Sheriff’s Office deputies and Pompano Beach Fire Rescue personnel responded. Fire rescue personnel found “a male individual” who had been shot and took him to “an area hospital” where a doctor pronounced him dead, according to Gerdy St. Louis, a spokeswoman for the Broward Sheriff’s Office. Homicide detectives were

Photo by: Fox35Orlando One person is dead following a two-vehicle crash in Altamonte Springs on Thursday morning, according to the Seminole County Fire Department. The crash happened around 4:30 a.m. at the intersection of State Road 414 and Magnolia Homes Road. Fire rescue officials said one person was declared dead at the scene. Another person was not transported. Traffic is being redirected to State Road 434 as all westbound lanes are currently closed. The area will remain closed for another

Photo by: wsvn A Broward County Transit bus collided with a pile of rocks early Wednesday morning in Northwest Miami-Dade, leading to emergency responses but no serious injuries, authorities said. The accident occurred at the intersection of Northwest Sixth Avenue and 159th Street. Miami-Dade Fire Rescue responded to the scene, where 7Skyforce aerial footage captured first responders assisting a man from the bus. 7Skyforce showed that the bus driver struck the rock pile, which was part of a nearby construction

 A woman was recently impaled by an umbrella while sunbathing at Cocoa Beach, police say. The Cocoa Beach Police Department confirmed the incident to Fox News Digital. A spokesperson explained that a woman and her family were sitting near the water in Cocoa Beach when the freak accident happened. For an unknown reason, the group’s rental umbrella dislodged from the sand and impaled the woman’s leg, police said. Authorities were promptly alerted to the scene. The official also disclosed that first responders needed to use bolt-cutters

A 76-year-old Sunny Isles Beach woman was left battered and bloodied after a man who lives in her building broke into her unit while nude and beat her over the weekend, according to police. Marco Tulio Russi, 43, is now facing a charge of burglary with assault or battery, a first-degree felony following his arrest in connection with Sunday’s incident, which happened at a building at 17000 N. Bay Road. His case is separate from that of 37-year-old Serghei Tcaciuc, who’s

Miami-Dade police arrested a doctor on Monday for fleeing the scene of a crash in the parking lot of a Chase Bank in the Westchester area, authorities said. The crash took place on May 15, when police responded to a call of a hit-and-run with injuries involving two people at the bank branch at 8700 SW 24th St., authorities said. According to his arrest report, the doctor, Armando Pineda Velez, 72, of Coral Springs, admitted to being the driver on