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The Orange Park Police Department said it is investigating a shooting at a park that left a boy seriously injured on Tuesday. The Town of Orange Park shared an alert around noon that said there was a heavy law enforcement presence in the area of Gano Avenue and Fromhart Street, and officers and detectives were investigating. Clay County Fire Rescue said it took one person to a hospital with serious injuries from 1085 Fromhart St., the address for Orange Park

Firefighters pulled two people from a blaze at a Davie apartment complex Tuesday afternoon, officials said. The fire happened at around 2:45 p.m. at a building in the 3700 block of Southwest 59th Avenue. A Davie Fire Rescue spokesperson said after crews “rapidly located and removed” the victims from the apartment, and medics took the pair to Memorial Regional Hospital in Hollywood and put the fire out. Officials haven’t provided additional details about the victims, including their ages, genders or

Lakeland Police (LPD) said a pedestrian was hit and killed after a crash with a Tesla on U.S. 98 in Lakeland. LPD said the crash happened around 6 a.m. Tuesday near the 1300 block of U.S. Highway 98 South. Police said a 2021 Tesla was going north on U.S. 98 South when it crossed an intersection on a green light and hit a man who was walking in the crosswalk. The driver of the car stopped and remained at the

A 48-year-old man has been arrested and charged in connection with an attempted rape in Opa-locka that occurred back in March, the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office confirmed Tuesday. According to MDSO officials, YG faces charges after attacking a woman in her bedroom on March 6 at a location that was redacted in his publicly released arrest report. Investigators said the two previously lived together as a family for approximately one year before G vacated the residence prior to the incident. The

A man was arrested early Monday after police say he broke into multiple vehicles in a residential Cape Coral neighborhood and later crashed a stolen car while trying to escape. According to the Cape Coral Police Department, officers responded to a home on Southwest 44th Terrace around 2 a.m. after a report of a vehicle burglary in progress. Surveillance video captured a man breaking into a vehicle in the driveway, and police later identified the suspect as B M D,

A man working on a truck late Monday was pinned by the vehicle and killed in Orange County, deputies said. The industrial accident happened around 10:30 p.m. at 6748 Muskogee St. According to the Orange County Sheriff’s Office, deputies were called to the scene and found a man in his 50s pinned by a truck. The man was pronounced dead at the scene, sheriff’s officials said. No other details have been released. Injured in an Industrial Accident? Ovadia Law Group

Two people were taken into custody and charged after forcing their way into a home and hitting a woman with a gun in St. Petersburg. The Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office responded to the 3600 block of 49th Avenue North after a reported home invasion around 7:36 p.m. on Monday. PCSO said the victim told deputies that two men pushed past her and into the home. One struck her in the head with a firearm and then fled. Both people were

Courtesy of a WEAR News viewer Escambia County Fire Rescue responded to an electric car fire on Tuesday morning. The incident occurred on the 900 block of Jordan Street at approximately 4:20 a.m., when the car was found fully engulfed in flames. Firefighters managed to extinguish the blaze by 4:36 a.m., according to officials. The State Fire Marshal’s office has been notified and is currently investigating the cause of the fire. The Escambia County Sheriff’s Office also assisted in the

 A deadly shooting is under investigation at a home in Seminole County, according to sheriff’s officials. The shooting happened around 8 p.m. Monday on Forest Lake Drive, southwest of state roads 434 and 436 near Altamonte Springs. Video from the scene shows crime tape surrounding the house, with at least two deputy patrol vehicles in the yard. The Seminole County Sheriff’s Office said deputies were called to the home and found a victim suffering from a gunshot wound. The victim,

An Orange County sheriff’s deputy, a defendant who was being transported to jail and another driver were injured early Tuesday when the deputy ran a red light and caused a crash, authorities said. The two-vehicle wreck happened around 3:30 a.m. near the intersection of John Young Parkway and State Road 408. The Florida Highway Patrol said the deputy was driving a marked patrol car south on John Young Parkway and ran a red light, striking the front of a northbound

Photo by: (IRCSO) Deputies apprehended two notorious auto burglars after they reportedly recklessly drove a stolen vehicle through a residential area and crashed through a fence onto railway property. The Indian River County Sheriff’s Office (IRCSO) said that early on Tuesday morning, deputies noticed a car driving recklessly throughout a residential area. According to IRCSO, the driver tried to evade the deputies, speeding down a dead-end road and breaking through a fence onto FEC Railroad property near the train tracks.

Photo by: wsvn Three people and one dog were transported to local hospitals after a fire broke out in a home in Northwest Miami-Dade. Fire rescue crews initially responded to the area of the 3200 block and Northwest 95th Street after a house reportedly went up in flames at around 12:45 a.m., Tuesday. “A single family structure on fire. We have engine seven fast attack. Rescue seven is going to be search,” a fire official radioed. Smoke was seen coming