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Photo by: mypanhandle Panama City firefighters are on the scene of a building fire near the corner of Frankford Ave and W 23rd Street. The fire started around 10:00 am Tuesday morning and appears to be in Rege Hellett’s Auto Body Shop. It is unknown if anyone is injured. We will keep you updated as more information becomes available. Update: When Panama City firefighters arrived on the scene, the entire structure was engulfed in flames. The building was under demolition,

Holmes County first responders are sharing a heart-warming story, that came out of a scary situation. They responded to a traffic crash a little after 8:00 pm Monday on Interstate 10. A car ran off the highway at mile marker 109 and into the tree line. The driver, a 56-year-old man from Alexandria Louisiana, suffered a bad cut on his head and was air-lifted to Ascension Sacred Heart Bay. But the whole-time paramedics were trying to treat him, the man

Photo by: Mypanhandle A Lynn Haven woman is in critical condition Tuesday after a traffic crash involving an electric bike. The accident happened around 7:30 am Tuesday on Highway 389 near Bay Haven Charter School. According to Florida Highway Patrol, the 69-year-old woman was riding an electric bike on the rails to trails. Officials said she ran into the side of a car while traveling south on 389. She was reportedly not wearing a helmet and suffered critical injuries. The

 A sergeant with Volusia County Beach Safety Ocean Rescue has been cited after they “accidentally struck” two women sunbathing on the beach on Memorial Day, according to officials. The two 18-year-olds, who were visiting from Kissimmee, were lying on the sand west of the emergency lane in the 400 block North in Daytona Beach when they were struck around 2:30 p.m. According to Tamra Malphurs, interim director with Volusia County Beach Safety Ocean Rescue, the women were taken to the

A crash on Interstate 4 in Orange County closed all westbound lanes at Sand Lake Road just after 9 p.m. on Monday. The crash caused traffic to back up significantly for roughly an hour.  Troopers with the Florida Highway Patrol said the crash involved a 2021 Hyundai Sedan and a 2020 BMW SUV and occurred at approximately 9:16 p.m. on I-4 westbound at mile marker 74. The drivers involved are a 20-year-old male from Orlando and a 69-year-old male from

A woman from Hialeah faces charges of negligence and physical harm against her own mother, a 96-year-old woman who had been under her care since 2022. It was the tenants of the alleged victim who noticed the apparent signs of violence on the elderly woman’s body. The daughter of the victim, Elizabeth Benavides, 68, was arrested on Saturday. According to the arrest report of Benavides, on several occasions the tenants had to feed the elderly woman because she told them

A man has been arrested after shocking video showed him strangling a 10-year-old boy at a Sunny Isles Beach park, police said. Robert Sandy Marcu, 60, was arrested Monday on charges of battery by strangulation and aggravated child abuse, an arrest report said. The alleged incident happened at Gwen Margolis Park. According to the report, The victim’s father said his son was playing with water guns at the park with another child when the other child’s father, Marcu, grabbed his

Photo by:  Douglas Churaman A person was killed in a crash at the intersection of SR-434 and Jamestown Boulevard in Altamonte Springs on Monday, according to officials.  A spokesperson for the Seminole County Fire Department said a van crashed into a pole near the entrance of the shopping center east of Lake Brantley High School on Monday afternoon.  At the time of the crash, the patient was “unstable” and was transported to a local hospital after being removed from the vehicle, the

The Tampa Police Department arrested a man on charges that stemmed from a drug overdose death on February 8, 2024. Jeffrey Moyer, 48, was arrested for the death of Kenny Martin, 29. Police were called to a home on N. Forest Hills Drive for reports of a medical emergency. When they arrived, they found Martin unresponsive in the bathroom. He died shortly after being transported to a nearby hospital. Two baggies were found in Martin’s pants pocket. Later testing showed

A pedestrian was killed in Pinellas County Sunday morning after being hit by two vehicles, authorities said. A Chevy Bolt, driven by a 33-year-old Los Angeles man, was traveling eastbound on 54th Avenue North at about 1:25 a.m. According to a Florida Highway Patrol report, the pedestrian, a 46-year-old St. Petersburg man, walked into the path of the Bolt and was struck just east of Haines Road. After the initial collision, a Honda Civic, driven by a 30-year-old Seminole man, also

Five people were left with gunshot wounds, three of those victims being minors, at a gathering in Florida, according to officials. At 12:23 a.m. Saturday morning, Fort Pierce officers responded to the 1800 block of Avenue G for reports of a possible gunshot wound. Five victims were found with gunshot wounds and were taken to a nearby hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, according to officials. Those injured ranged in age from 15-20, with three of them being under the age of

 Two men were injured early Sunday in a shooting at a gas station in Northwest Jacksonville, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office. Police said around 3:30 a.m., two men in their 30s were shot at a gas station on Soutel Drive in the Harbor View neighborhood. One of them was shot in the arm, leg and abdomen. The other person was shot in the abdomen. Both suffered non-life-threatening injuries, according to JSO. One of the victims has been released from