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Picture by: Weartv ESCAMBIA COUNTY, Fla. — A 23-year-old Gainesville woman has died after a crash in Escambia County on Monday. The crash occurred around 1:55 a.m. when she was traveling eastbound on Gulf Beach Highway. According to FHP, the woman drove onto the south shoulder, striking several signs and a utility pole. Troopers say her car flipped on its side at Gulf Beach Highway and Bartow Avenue, then caught on fire. Escambia County Fire Rescue arrived shortly after and

BAY HARBOR ISLANDS, Fla. – Police arrested a woman they said hit a man riding a scooter on the Broad Causeway Bridge in Bay Harbor Islands in mid-October and kept on driving, leaving the victim lying in the road injured. Angela Nicole Pico, 31, of North Miami Beach, turned herself in at the Miami-Dade Police Department headquarters in Doral on Monday evening and appeared in court Tuesday morning. She’s facing a charge of leaving the scene of a crash causing serious

DESOTO COUNTY, Fla. — A 35-year-old man from Indiantown, Florida, died in a two-vehicle crash early Tuesday morning in Arcadia. The Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) responded to the accident on State Road 70 near NE Cross Avenue at approximately 5:20 a.m. According to troopers, the man was driving west on SR-70 with a 27-year-old woman from Miami, heading toward NE Cross Avenue. Meanwhile, a second vehicle carrying two men from Arcadia was traveling east on the same road. FHP reported

The Palm Springs Police Department (PSPD) is turning to the public for help locating the driver involved in a crash that left a pedestrian dead in the street. The pedestrian’s body was found by a passing driver around 12:30 a.m. on Friday, October 18, at the Lake Worth Road and Corrigan Court intersection, PSPD reported. His bicycle and backpack were found nearby as well. No one saw the collision, investigators said; however, a different witness told them the pedestrian, who

JFRD continues to battle massive fire at Northside recycling facility, hopes to extinguish most of it by Wednesday Rubber is difficult to extinguish, JFRD spokesman says JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Fifteen hours into battling a massive fire at a Northside recycling facility, the Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department said its heavy equipment team was still tackling the burning rubbish pile made mostly of ground-up tires. The fire at Atlantic Can Inc., which is on the southeast corner of the I-295 junction with Main Street,

LAKELAND, Fla. (WFLA) — It was a terrible accident that left a family fighting to survive, and two children trapped inside the back of a burning car.  A Good Samaritan, AJ Slater, helped the family save one of the children, but sadly, the other child did not survive. According to the Polk County Sheriff’s Office, the crash happened in a Lakeland neighborhood at the intersection of Broadway Street and Lake Parker Drive East at around 5 p.m. on Nov. 7.

Video shows a Florida International University shuttle bus engulfed in flames on a roadway. The fire broke out around 5:30 p.m. Monday near the 107th Avenue exit of the Dolphin Expressway. The video posted by Only in Dade shows the back of the bus on fire as black smoke rises into the air. Officials from FIU said the 20 students and driver who were on the bus were able to get off safely. FIU sent a shuttle to pick them

‘The subject name is not being released at this time as investigation continues,’ detectives confirmed MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. – Police are investigating after they said a woman was fatally shot outside of an apartment complex in Miami Gardens Tuesday morning. Miami Gardens police confirmed that officers discovered a Black woman, who they identified Wednesday as 27-year-old Chavely Acanda, was killed after sustaining multiple gunshot wounds outside the Oak Enclave apartment complex just after 7 a.m. near the 2300 block of Northwest

A Jacksonville police officer was injured Monday night in a crash on Interstate 95. The crash occurred around 9:56 p.m. on I-95 southbound just south of Emerson St, according to a news release from the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office. The officer was on his way home from work in his JSO Ford Explorer, the news release states. A Nissan was traveling in the center lane behind a semi tractor trailer in stop-and-go traffic, the news release states. The semi came to

Photo: UC Breaking News The Lee County Sheriff’s Office is investigating after a serious crash in Lehigh Acres Tuesday morning. Deputies responded to the scene at Bell Boulevard S and Cadis Street E around 6:30 a.m. Deputies said one person was taken to the hospital with unspecified injuries. Photos from the scene show two vehicles involved with major damage. It is unclear what led up to the crash at this time. As of 8:40 a.m., both directions of travel remain

Photo by: wsvn A vicious dog attack in Northwest Miami-Dade sent one woman to the hospital. According to officials, a woman was attacked by a neighbor’s Cane Corso near Northwest 14th Avenue and Little River Drive just before 5 p.m. Monday. “It’s bad,” said A M, a witness and cousin of the victim. “They say one eye is out. That’s terrible, man. I don’t know why they don’t take the dog away.” The homeowner told 7News his fiancée was home

Credit: Tampa Fire Rescue One dog and several cats were rescued from a residential fire in Tampa on Monday, Tampa Fire Rescue announced. Around 5:30 p.m., fire rescue responded to the fire on W. Paris Street. Once inside the single-story residence, firefighters found no residents but did rescue the dog named Lily along with the cats. Firefighters successfully revived Lily and treated the cats for smoke inhalation. Fire rescue said the fire was successfully brought under control in approximately 30