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Photo courtesy of the Polk County Sheriff’s Office  A Lakeland man was killed early Monday morning after he ran a red light and slammed into the side of a semi-truck in Polk County. The Polk County Sheriff’s Office said detectives were dispatched at 2:32 a.m. for a crash on New Tampa Highway (US 92) at Clark Road. Authorities said Miguel Jacinto, 56, of Lakeland, the driver of the gray 2013 Volkswagen Jetta, was driving north on Clark Road at a “high rate

Myrza Rodriguez-Fearnley, a resident of Orlando, Florida, is coming forward and speaking out against an intricate gift card fraud scheme that she fell victim to. Rodriguez-Fearnley lost thousands of dollars after responding to what she thought was an email from a legitimate money transfer app, buying Target and Walmart gift cards. Speaking to The Sun, Rodriguez-Fearnley explained that she first received an email containing alarming information about an unauthorized purchase from her PayPal. The email, adorned with the PayPal logo and containing sensitive personal information, including the last four

A young couple from Georgia was arrested Saturday afternoon after Volusia County deputies say they found them drunk and asleep in the sand in Daytona Beach, and their children were nowhere to be found. An anonymous caller reported the couple to 911, and it took a deputy eight attempts to wake the two up, according to an arrest affidavit. “I went and read the report, and I’m like, ‘You got to be kidding me,’” Sheriff Mike Chitwood said. Deputies asked

Two skydivers in Lake Wales were injured after landing off course, police say. According to the Lake Wales Police Department, emergency personnel responded to the downtown area around 3 p.m. on Monday in reference to a group of skydivers who had landed off course. Officials say they located three skydivers in the area between Seminole Avenue and Wiltshire Avenue along Scenic Highway. One skydiver was not injured, but police say two other skydivers made hard landings and sustained non-life-threatening injuries.

 The 39th traffic fatality in Jacksonville this year happened on Monday night when a motorcyclist crashed into an SUV on Kernan Boulevard, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office. JSO said around 8 p.m. a motorcyclist was riding north on Kernan Boulevard as an Acura SUV was traveling south on the same street. The SUV made a left turn on Ashley Melisse Boulevard, and the motorcyclist hit the SUV’s passenger side, according to JSO. The motorcycle driver died at the scene.

Drivers are expected to see major delays after a crash brought northbound traffic to a halt on Florida’s Turnpike in Indian River County. According to Florida 511, the multi-vehicle crash occurred before Mile Marker 174, near the Fort Drum Wildlife Management Area, at 6:48 p.m. on Monday.  Traffic cameras show congestion in the area, semi-trucks and cars stuck bumper to bumper in the night. Florida 511 said the traffic is backed up to Mile Marker 171.  The severity of the