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Photo by: Sky Fox The Brief A semi-truck ran off the road and overturned on Friday morning in the Pine Hills area, troopers say.  What happened? What we know: The Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) says the crash took place Friday morning in Orange County. Troopers say a 2009 semi-truck with a trailer was traveling southbound on North Pine Hills Road, north of Balboa Drive.  Officials say the driver of the truck failed to negotiate the curve, ran off the roadway right

A 33-year-old man was shot and killed early Friday morning inside a Miami apartment, authorities said. Officers responded to a call of a man shot around 1:38 a.m., according to Officer Michael Vega, a spokesman with the Miami Police Department. When officers arrived at the apartment complex, authorities said they found the victim, who has not yet been identified, inside the fourth unit of the apartment building. They said the man was transported by Miami Fire Rescue to Jackson Memorial

A person was killed in a single-car crash Thursday afternoon in Osceola County, according to Florida Highway Patrol. FHP said a 2022 Honda Civic was traveling east on Irlo Bronson Memorial Highway east of Westside Boulevard when it ran off the roadway. The car hit a pole, killing the person inside. No other details have been released. The crash is under investigation. Ovadia Law Group: Your Partner in Recovery Recovering from a car accident isn’t just about healing physically it’s

Credit: FDOT Southbound traffic on I-275 was at a standstill Friday morning after a crash with injuries on the Sunshine Skyway Bridge caused first responders to close all but one lane of traffic. The crash was reported shortly after 7:30 a.m. Friday on the southern end of the Sunshine Skyway Bridge. All but one southbound lane was closed as first responders worked to assess the crash. Two ambulances were seen on scene from FDOT traffic cameras. At this time, it’s

Photo by:(FDOT) A multi-vehicle crash has caused traffic delays on I-275 North in Hillsborough County. According to FL511, the left northbound lane on I-275 has been closed past mile marker 58. The Florida Highway Patrol said the crash happened after two drivers lost control due to the weather. One of the vehicles ended up crashing through the cable barrier on the inside lane and crashing with another car in the northbound lanes. No one was injured. How Ovadia Law Group

The Brief A Seminole County man remains hospitalized and heavily sedated nearly a week after a fire tore through his Geneva home, severely injuring him and two others just one day before his son’s wedding. What happened? What we know: The Seminole County Fire Department (SCFD) responded around 6:12 a.m. on Saturday to reports of a mobile home on fire in the area. First responders arrived at the scene to see a mobile home trailer that was heavily engulfed in

 An Ormond Beach man was arrested on Thursday, nearly two weeks after his 18-month-old son died from being “left helpless” for hours in a hot truck, according to the Volusia Sheriff’s Office. In a release, deputies said that the man — identified as SG, 33 — had left his son S in the truck for over three hours on June 6. During that time, G went in for a haircut and then went drinking at Hanky Panky’s Lounge, deputies added.

Photo by: wsvn An officer and driver were sent to the hospital following an overnight crash in Hialeah. According to officials, the accident occurred in the area of East Fourth Avenue and East 18th Street just before 1:00 a.m. on Friday, after a black Cadillac SUV, traveling westbound on East 18th, failed to stop at a stop sign and collide with a Hialeah police cruiser. As a result of the collision, the SUV slammed into a nearby pole—fleeing the scene

One Orange County firefighter was transported to the hospital for heat exhaustion following an apartment fire in Orlando on Thursday, a fire official said. The firefighter was responding to an incident that occurred at 11:30 a.m. at the Woodlands Apartment Homes, on Laurel Cove Ct, south of the 408. Video obtained exclusively by Channel 9 shows the flames billowing through the home, left with a wall collapsed. Fire officials say one cat and all civilians were evacuated safely and no

A man sitting on the porch of a home in Jacksonville’s Mid-Westside neighborhood was shot several times on Thursday night. The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office said the shooting happened just before 3 p.m. at a home on West 13th Street. The man was sitting on the porch when two unknown individuals came from behind him and started shooting, according to JSO. He was hit multiple times. The two then drove off in a black four-door sedan. JSO did not have any

A driver died Thursday morning at the scene of a single-vehicle crash in Daytona Beach, according to police. Officers responded around 10:53 a.m. to the area of South Street and Russell Drive, where a pickup truck had crashed into two power poles and become engulfed in flames, the Daytona Beach Police Department said in a news release. Daytona Beach Fire Department personnel quickly put out the fire, the release states, adding Florida Power & Light also responded to secure the

Photo by WJXT News4JAX  Emergency vehicles were on the scene of a car fire on I-95 South at Racetrack Road Thursday afternoon. A photo from a News4JAX viewer showed a vehicle fully engulfed in flames. As of 1:25 p.m., all southbound lanes were blocked. As of 1:35 p.m., one right lane was blocked, and backups stretched back to State Road 9B. As of 2:30 p.m., all lanes were back open, and the car was towed away. Get Legal Help After a