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One person is dead and another is injured after two vehicles collided Friday afternoon in Winter Haven. According to the Polk County Sheriff’s Office, the crash occurred around 3:54 p.m. at the intersection of Winter Lake Road and Camellia Drive. Deputies said a 2017 Subaru was stopped and waiting to turn left across the westbound lanes of Winter Lake Road. The driver began to turn but failed to yield to an oncoming 2006 Mercedes. PCSO said the driver of the

Crews were working to restore power Saturday morning after a bus crash damaged power poles in Brooksville. According to Hernando County Fire Rescue, crews responded to a single vehicle crash on Howell Avenue near Highland Street just after 11 a.m. on Saturday. Several power poles were damaged in the crash, causing power outages in the area, HCFR said. Duke Energy was on the scene repairing the poles and working to restore power. Firefighters said the driver was the only person

Photo by: (WJXT) Three people were killed and another four were injured Sunday afternoon in a head-on, chain reaction crash on Atlantic Boulevard near Empire Point, the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office said. The multi-car crash, which was reported around 12:30 p.m., shut down all lanes of Atlantic Boulevard from Empire Point to University Boulevard for hours. Sgt. Robert Hungerford with the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office Traffic Homicide Unit said a teen driver was headed westbound in an Infinity when he drove over the

Photo by: gulfcoastnewsnow Crews from North Port Fire Rescue, officers from the North Port Police Department and personnel from Florida Power and Light are on the scene of a working structure fire on Dennis Street, NPFR said on Sunday. According to a Facebook post, the fire went through the attic of a home, causing a partial roof collapse. NPFR says that the fire is under control, with no injuries to occupants or personnel and no damage to surrounding homes. The

Photo by: (SLCFD)  St Lucie County firefighters rescued four dogs from a house fire on Friday, breaking into the home while the owners were away. According to the St. Lucie County Fire District, at around 8:48 a.m. they responded to reports of a house on fire, and while enroute, were informed that nobody was home, and three dogs were trapped. Upon arrival, crews say they observed black smoke billowing from the homes roof. When attempting to enter, they also learned that

Two people riding a motorcycle were seriously injured after a multiple-vehicle crash on the Southbound Turnpike west of Boca Raton. Palm Beach County Fire Rescue said that at 5:20 p.m. on Sunday, firefighters responded to the multiple-vehicle crash near the Glades Road exit in Boca Raton. Officials said that initial reports from several 911 callers were unclear, with some suggesting the crash might also extend into the northbound lanes. To address the situation, both Palm Beach County Fire Rescue and

 A therapist accused of abusing an autistic, nonverbal child during a therapy session made his first appearance in court Saturday. That’s where a Palm Beach County judge set his bond at $7,500 and ordered him to have no contact with the victim. RG is charged with felony child abuse. Police said G turned himself in on Friday following an investigation by the Lake Clarke Shores Police Department. According to authorities, surveillance video shows G throwing a ball and then a shoe at

A stolen car rammed into an officer after fleeing from police in Palm Bay on Friday afternoon, according to the department. In a release, police said that the Flock Safety camera system alerted officers to the stolen car heading through the city around 1:44 p.m. “Upon locating the vehicle, it fled from our officers, and a pursuit was not initiated,” the release reads. Police explained that they once again encountered the stolen vehicle a short while later, though this time,

Photo by: local10 A traffic accident caused a lane closure in a busy part of Miami early Sunday morning. It happened along South Dixie Highway where the road meets the southern end of I-95. Local 10’s cameras observed the two left lanes of South Dixie Highway blocked due to the crash. The crash appears to have involved a box truck and the median of the roadway, but a large semi-truck was also observed at the scene. Authorities have not provided

A motorcyclist was hospitalized in critical condition Saturday evening as the driver accused of rear-ending them on Interstate 4 in Seminole County — with westbound lanes shut down for several hours as a result — was arrested to face criminal charges including DUI, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. EAR , 30, was arrested around 11 p.m. after Seminole County deputies found him hiding in a wooded area southwest of the crash, which occurred about an hour earlier in the

A motorcyclist is dead following a crash in Orange County early Saturday, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. Troopers said the crash occurred shortly before 1:30 a.m. on State Road 408, west of East Colonial Drive. Authorities said the 45-year-old man from Groveland was riding a 2021 Harley-Davidson Road Glide westbound on SR-408 when, for reasons still unknown, he veered off the road and struck a guardrail. He was taken to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead. The

Florida Highway Patrol says a 65-year-old Orlando man is dead after driving off the roadway and striking two unoccupied vehicles. Troopers say the man was traveling northbound on Goldenrod Road just north of Bryan Road when he ran off the roadway and struck a sign and fence. His vehicle then continued into a parking lot and collided with a sedan and a pickup truck. The man was taken to an area hospital where he was pronounced dead. FHP says they