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A Royal Caribbean crew member was arrested Wednesday after federal agents said they found child pornography material on his phone after he disembarked at Port Everglades. According to court documents released Thursday, federal agents with the South Florida Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force searched the phone of 35-year-old Zin Naing Htun, a Myanmar national, after he got off the ship on Wednesday. Authorities said during a search of Htun’s cellphone, they located two videos depicting child sexual abuse material.

 A Fort Walton Beach, Florida, man was killed in a crash on I-22 Wednesday morning, the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency reports. Douglas Koenigsfeld, 65, was fatally injured when the Jepp Patriot he was driving left the road and overturned about seven miles southeast of Brilliant around 8:50 a.m. Koenigsfeld was pronounced dead at the scene. Troopers with the ALEA’s Highway Patrol Division are investigating. Experiencing a car accident can be a life-altering event, leaving victims with physical injuries, emotional trauma,

One hour and 23 minutes — that’s how long it took for police to find a passenger in a wrecked car. Twenty-two-year-old Annie Becerra could barely breathe and fell unconscious, dying two days later. The accident happened in 2018, but the woman’s family sued Miami-Dade Police and found them negligent in her death. “My daughter was my life,” Pablo Becerra said. “She was my first daughter, she was everything.” Annie was a passenger in her boyfriend’s car when they got

The Cape Coral Police Department is investigating after a four-year-old child reportedly overdosed on drugs. According to CCPD, the incident occurred on Apr. 22, inside a home off SE 8th Place and Nicholas Parkway. An incident report said the child’s parents told police they recently hosted a party and their child must’ve gotten into leftover drugs. Cape Coral police initially found out about the overdose thanks to a call from the Department of Children and Families. Police said the parents

The Florida Highway Patrol says one person is dead after an SUV collided head-on with a car hauler on SR-31 in Charlotte County. FHP troopers responded to the crash near Babcock Ranch on Wednesday at approximately 11:37 a.m. According to FHP, an SUV was headed north on SR-31, south of Suzan Drive. At around 10:58 a.m., the SUV drove into the road’s southbound lane before crashing head-on with a car hauler. The SUV driver was pronounced dead at the scene.

Photo by: actionnewsjax A 5-vehicle collision on Interstate 295 North near Old St. Augustine Road turned deadly earlier today, resulting in the loss of a 61-year-old woman’s life, as reported by the Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department. According to the Florida Highway Patrol, the incident occurred around 5:29 p.m., when Vehicle 1, traveling northbound in the inside lane, failed to decelerate and slammed into the rear of Vehicle 2, which was forced to slow down due to traffic congestion. In

A man in his early 20s was stabbed early Thursday morning during an altercation inside an apartment on University Boulevard North in Arlington, Jacksonville police said. Sgt. Steve Rudlaff said the man was taken to Memorial Hospital by paramedics but died at the hospital. Investigators have detained several people for interviews, but the circumstances of the fight and the relationships of those involved are unclear, Rudlaff said. The stabbing was reported just after 12:30 a.m. Thursday at an apartment complex

An 80-year-old woman was killed after a crash in Englewood Wednesday afternoon. According to the Florida Highway Patrol, a sedan was headed south on Pine Street, south of 5th Street. At around 1:13 p.m., the sedan was driving in the right lane and tried to make a U-turn across traffic. An SUV in the left lane reportedly crashed into the sedan. The sedan driver was critically injured and taken to a local hospital. She was later pronounced dead, FHP said.

Photo by: cbs12 A man was struck and killed by a southbound Amtrak train in West Palm Beach on Wednesday night. Spokesperson for the West Palm Beach Police Department, Mike Jachles said the man – possibly homeless – was struck on the tracks about 1,000 feet north of 15th Street, near Windsor Avenue. Police said the area reopened by 10:30 p.m. Being involved in a pedestrian accident involving a train can result in devastating injuries and complex legal proceedings. At

Photo by:  Palm Beach County Fire Rescue A row of cars erupted in flames when a junk car lot seemingly exploded early Thursday morning. The blaze was reported around 3 a.m. at a car lot for damaged and totaled vehicles off Corporate Road South and Park of Commerce Boulevard in Jupiter. After a few hours on scene, firefighters brought the blaze under control. The call was logged as an explosion, and when first responders arrived, they found a row of

Photo by: wsvn A crash involving a Miami-Dade County school bus led to an intersection blockage in Miami Gardens as police attempt to clear the scene and investigate. On Thursday morning, 7Skyforce was over the intersection of Northwest 183rd Street and 17th Avenue where the school bus, displaying route number 2419, was involved in a collision with two other SUVs, which appeared to be severely damaged. Despite the impact, there were no reports of injuries among children on the bus.

Photo by:  Florida Highway Patrol Traffic is moving again on the Polk Parkway after a crash left a semi dangling off an overpass on Wednesday. Florida Highway Patrol says the driver of the semi lost control around 6:15 p.m. on the eastbound side of the highway near mile marker 18 in the Auburndale area. The impact caused 300 feet of guardrail to be destroyed “all the way down to the asphalt,” according to FHP. All eastbound lanes were blocked while