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A night out for a Central Florida couple halted with a grisly discovery. Kendall Hardester and Ismail Rainey found a man badly wounded from an alligator attack on the path along Lake Monroe in Sanford.  “It was probably around 1:30 in the morning. We were driving back home and passed by a guy, basically lying on the side here, covered in blood,” Hardester said. “He was missing his arm from here; you could see his bone and all the flesh coming out

Photo by: Martin County Sheriff’s Office A man and a woman from Pennsylvania died Thursday after the two became trapped in a rip current, Florida authorities said. According to the Martin County Sheriff’s Office, 51-year-old Brian Warter and 48-year-old Erica Wishard got caught in the rip current while swimming on Hutchinson Island. The Pennsylvania couple was vacationing in Florida with their six children at the time of their drownings, the sheriff’s office said. The two adults and two of their teen children

A crash along State Road 417 in Orange County has claimed two lives, the Florida Highway Patrol said Friday morning. Troopers said the crash happened shortly before 5 a.m. to the area of mile marker 6, not far from the Orange-Osceola County line. Investigators said the crash involved two vehicles and a dump truck. Two people who were rushed to a hospital did not survive, FHP said. As of 6:20 a.m., southbound lanes of SR-417 were blocked as troopers conducted

Photo by: wsn  A suspect was arrested after a traffic stop came to a crashing end in Southwest Miami-Dade when an officer attempted to pull over a pickup truck suspected to be involved in a carjacking. According to police, the incident began near Southwest 107th Avenue and 181st Street when police tried to stop the vehicle, which matched the description of one involved in a recent carjacking. The driver fled the scene, leading to a brief pursuit that ended when

A Boca Raton man is facing felony charges, accused of posting antisemitic threats to social media. Twenty-six-year-old Paul Morris is charged with making a written threat of a mass shooting or a terrorist act. According to the police report, Morris posted things like “I want Hitler come back to kill all the Jews,” “I want to scream “kill all Jews” at anyone I have ever known,” and “I’m shooting up a synagogue.” “People feel normalized to just come out and

Photo by: Marion County Sheriff’s Office A 16-year-old was taken down at a Family Dollar store in Marion County with a rifle under his shirt after he fled from deputies, according to the Marion County Sheriff’s Office.  The incident happened in Ocala on Monday, according to an arrest affidavit.  A deputy was on patrol just before 5 p.m. in the area of Cedar Road and Bahia Road when he came across a white Ford Focus that was reportedly speeding with dark, tinted windows

Photo by:  Florida Highway Patrol A St. Pete driver was arrested for DUI after authorities say he crashed into a Florida Highway Patrol vehicle, injuring a trooper. According to FHP, Matthew Morrison Rosenwald, 25, of St. Pete, was arrested and charged with DUI. He had been driving a Ford car south on I-275 at around 9;49 p.m. on Wednesday when he entered the shoulder of the highway and collided with an FHP patrol car just south of 28th Street South. The patrol car,

A car stolen from a Hialeah home early Monday morning turned into a police chase that ended with police smashing into the fleeing suspects around northwest Miami-Dade just 12 hours later.  Video obtained exclusively by NBC6 shows two men smashing the window of a white 2021 Dodge Challenger, rolling it out into the street, and then taking off.   The car owner Iran Garcia said he was sleeping when the thieves stole his vehicle.  “They smashed my window, they opened the

A Tesla driver was killed in a Thursday morning crash in Osceola County, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.  The crash happened at 8:25 a.m. on Hickory Tree Road and Nursery Road in St. Cloud, troopers said.  According to the incident report, a man was speeding down Hickory Tree Road in a 2018 Telsa Model X.  At some point, the driver lost control on a curve, which caused the Tesla to run off the road and hit a tree, troopers

The reward to find 25-year-old Alez Lopez is growing. Lopez is accused of shooting and killing Raied Shihadeh. “He was there working hard for his family,” said Monique Shihadeh, Raied Shihadeh’s wife “And this scum of the earth came in and took him from us.”  It’s been two weeks since Shihadeh was killed at his convenience store.  Investigators say Lopez went into the store off Picciola Road, shot Shihadeh less than an hour before closing, and then robbed the store.  “If

A victim who’s been left permanently scarred following a botched surgery at a Treasure Coast plastic surgery clinic is speaking with WPBF 25 News. Police said that the clinic was performing unlicensed procedures. While four people now face charges for allegedly performing botched surgeries at Cosmetica Plastic Surgery and Anti-Aging in Port St. Lucie between 2021 and 2022, Jaclyn Sterling hopes she and others get more compensation for their injuries. “It was more hurtful to me because I felt betrayed,”