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Asuspect was taken into custody after gunshots were fired at a police car in North Miami Beach Wednesday morning, officials said. The incident happened shortly before 2 a.m. outside the Kabbalah Centre near Northeast 27th Avenue and Northeast 163rd Street. According to North Miami Beach Police officials, the officer was on patrol when he was “brazenly attacked” while sitting in his police vehicle. Footage from the scene showed the marked squad car with a flat front tire and an evidence

A crash took place in Taylor County Monday night, leaving one man dead after he was ejected from his vehicle, according to Florida Highway Patrol. The crash unfolded around 10 p.m. Monday, FHP wrote in a press release. FHP said a 59-year-old Perry man was traveling north in a SUV on Beach Road when it crossed the center line into the southbound lane. A 36-year-old Steinhatchee man was traveling in a pickup truck in the southbound lane, at that time

 A 6-year-old girl has died after a car crash in Coral Springs. Coral Springs Police and Coral Springs-Parkland Fire Department responded to the scene on Sunday night in the area of 8500 West Sample Road. According to police, the driver of a white Mercedes sped off when officers tried to conduct a traffic stop. The Mercedes, with three people inside, crashed into a grey Chevrolet Traverse, with two people inside. The 6-year-old was ejected from her car seat and from

CUTLER BAY, FLA. (WSVN) – A mother is speaking out after, she says, her son’s teacher slapped him across the face during class on Tuesday. The mother of Isaiah Torres, an 8-year-old boy with autism, tells 7News that her son came home on Tuesday afternoon from his school at Dr. Edward L. Whigham Elementary in Cutler Bay with a red mark on his cheek, jaw, and neck. Video, shared by the family, shows the mother talking to her son after

A crash involving a semi-truck on Florida’s Turnpike in Miami-Dade had a ramp blocked for hours Tuesday morning. The crash happened around 5:11 a.m. the Turnpike north ramp from Exit 34 at Northwest 106th Street. The ramp has since been reopened. NBC6 has reached out to authorities for further information. Dealing with the aftermath of a car accident can be a traumatic and overwhelming experience, but Ovadia Law Group is here to provide you with the expert legal assistance you

A man was arrested after deputies say he shot into a pregnant woman’s car during a road rage incident, striking her several times. The Manatee County Sheriff’s Office said a pickup truck was traveling north on Business U.S. 41 North in Palmetto around 5:30 p.m. on Sunday. check on the driver before Steele left his vehicle, ran up to the victim’s passenger door and fired seven rounds at the victim’s truck. The woman, 36 and pregnant with twins, was hit

A crash on Interstate 95 on Monday afternoon resulted in two deaths and multiple injuries as three vehicles collided near Ormond Beach, Florida. The crash shut down the northbound lanes of the interstate for several hours. Troopers with the Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) arrived at the scene just before 4 p.m. According to initial reports, the crash south of U.S. 1, at mile marker 272, involved a 2023 Toyota Corolla, a 2013 Ford Fiesta, and a 2022 Ford Ranger. According

Newly-released surveillance video captured the moment a woman caused a car crash while chasing down a man who allegedly stole her purse — before confronting him on a Wynwood sidewalk. In the video posted by Only in Dade, the victim is seen driving a black car. According to a police report, she told investigators she was so focused on following the suspected thief, that she crashed into an oncoming car. “I had so much adrenaline in me that I didn’t think

A Miami-Dade woman was arrested Sunday after her 3-year-old daughter was found barefoot and alone, walking on a roadway, authorities said. According to the mother’s arrest report, Shelby Jung had left her two children unsupervised Sunday before her daughter was discovered in the street around 5:15 p.m. Miami-Dade police said Jung’s 1-month-old son had also been left home alone in the 8100 block of Northwest 17th Avenue. Police said officers tried to locate the girl’s parents for over one hour

A family care manager at a Florida Department of Children and Families partner agency in Wildwood was arrested last month, accused of child abuse as police say he was caught on camera hurting an 11-year-old girl. Cordell Baugh-Samuels, 41, was arrested Monday, April 29, some five days after the alleged incident at Kids Central, Inc. along Industrial Drive, police said. He faces a charge of child abuse without great bodily harm and as of Tuesday had posted $2,000 bond to

An 18-year-old man was shot in the arm in the vicinity of the Flagler Beach Fire Department and taken to the hospital with the non-life-threatening injury this evening, Flagler Beach Police Chief Matt Doughney said. The alleged assailant fled the city and is unknown and at large for now. “We’re still trying to figure out putting the pieces together,” Doughney said. “There were a lot of kids around here, we’re trying to figure out” what happened. The suspect “is no

A 24-year-old Florida woman was arrested after police said she broke into a neighbor’s home while naked last week. According to a news release, police were called to a home in Lake City on May 1 for reports of a burglary in progress. Arriving officers were met with a homeowner who said they heard someone knocking on their front door, but when asked who was there, received no answer. The victim then heard someone knock at their back, sliding glass