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A Hialeah Police officer was taken to the hospital following a rollover crash Wednesday afternoon, police said. According to Hialeah Police, there was a crash between the officer and another vehicle on Palm Avenue and 6th Street. The officer was transported to hospital as a precaution, while the people inside the other vehicle were not taken to the hospital. Police said the officer would be OK. Aerial footage from Chopper 6 showed the officer’s vehicle completely flipped over at the

A person is in the hospital following a shooting in Royal Palm Beach on Wednesday night. According to Palm Beach County Fire Rescue (PBCFR), at about 9:05 p.m., units were dispatched to Bilbao Street after reports were received of a shooting. Upon firefighters’ arrival, they found one person who met trauma alert criteria. That person was trauma-hawked by helicopter to a local trauma center. The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office says all the people involved in the shooting were known

A child is in the hospital following a fiery two-vehicle crash in Palm Beach County. According to Palm Beach County Fire Rescue (PBCFR), at about 8:45 p.m., firefighters were dispatched to Jog Road near Lantana Road after it had received reports of a vehicle crash with a fire. Upon arrival, units found one vehicle fully engulfed in flames. Fortunately, all occupants were out of the vehicle. Two of the people involved in the crash met trauma alert criteria, and there

Photo by: wsvn A Tri-Rail train clipped the back of a Miami-Dade Transit bus on the tracks in Opa-locka. Miami-Dade Fire Rescue units responded to the scene of the crash in the area of State Road 9 and Northwest 22nd Avenue, near the Florida Turnpike, at around 10:30 p.m. on Wednesday. According to a Tri-Rail spokesperson, a southbound train struck the transit bus. Video taken by a passerby captured the harrowing moments, as passengers scrambled to safety. Paramedics treated several

An investigation is underway after a home invasion in a Wynwood apartment complex left a man pistol-whipped and two others shot. According to Miami Police, officers responded to the Highley House apartment complex in the area of 2150 North Miami Avenue around 12:30 a.m. on Thursday in reference to a shooting. A preliminary investigation revealed that the shooting stemmed from a home invasion robbery by three armed subjects, police say. Officials said a struggle ensued between the subjects and two

A man in his 30s was shot outside a home on Vernon Road Wednesday afternoon. The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office received reports about multiple shots fired in the Magnolia Gardens neighborhood. When officers arrived at the scene around 5:30 p.m., they found the man suffering from two gunshot wounds in the front yard of a home. During the investigation, JSO learned that the man was standing outside with another family member when someone came from the backyard and started shooting. JSO

Photo by: (St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office)  A juvenile suffered a severe head injury in an electric motorized scooter crash. The St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office said Wednesday that the juvenile, who was riding without a helmet, fell off the scooter near Casa Sevilla Avenue in St. Augustine around 4:30 p.m. The juvenile was taken to the hospital with a severe head injury. This was the second accident this week as county officials work to pass legislation to prevent these incidents from

Photo by: (WJXT) A man was killed and a woman suffered life-threatening injuries Wednesday night in a crash near the intersection of Blanding Boulevard and Park Street on Jacksonville’s Westside, the Sheriff’s Office said. According to JSO, a Honda SUV and a Honda Accord collided in the southbound lanes of Blanding Boulevard just past Park Street around 9:51 p.m., sending the SUV down a heavily wooded 40-foot embankment on the west side of the road. The driver of the Accord,

An 18-year-old was killed and three other young men were injured in a shooting Wednesday night at a Cleveland Road apartment complex in Northwest Jacksonville, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office. The shooting was reported around 9 p.m. Wednesday at the Vista Landing apartments. When officers arrived, they found one man dead. Three other victims, ranging in age from 16 to 21 years old, were taken to a hospital. JSO told News4JAX reporter B B that the three wounded victims were in

A man died in a parking lot shooting near Copeland’s restaurant on Jacksonville’s southside. The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office responded to the shooting Wednesday afternoon, where they found a man in his late 30s shot in his chest. JSO said the man was there to meet someone. It’s unclear what the meeting was over. The incident prompted a large police presence around 2:30 p.m. at the restaurant located at the intersection of Southside Boulevard and Touchton Road. A JSO helicopter, drone,

Photo by: MCFR Firefighters in Marion County battled a house fire in Ocala on Wednesday morning. Marion County Fire Rescue crews say multiple people called 911 to report that a house on Northeast 19th Avenue was on fire. Crews from both Marion County and Ocala fire rescues worked together to bring the fire under control. All occupants were able to get out of the home safely, and no injuries were reported. Firefighters say the cause and origin of the fire

A Coral Gables man who invited another man over to his home for sex nearly became a murder victim over the weekend after kicking his would-be lover out, according to police, leading to the suspect’s arrest on Tuesday. V, 45, of Miami Gardens, is accused of stabbing the victim early Sunday morning. According to an arrest report from the Coral Gables Police Department, the two met on an unspecified dating app and arranged the meetup at the victim’s home after