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Photo by: UC Breaking News Fire crews are on the scene of a structure fire near Orange River Boulevard in Buckingham. A Gulf Coast News crew at the scene said they saw heavy smoke coming from a home, and additional units were arriving at the location. Fort Myers police vehicles blocked off access down the private road as crews worked to get the fire and smoke under control. Our crew said they could see fire vehicles from Tice, Bayshore Fire

Photo by: UC Breaking News A memorial has been set up for a teenage boy who died in a crash at Lakeland Avenue and Madison Drive in the Willoughby Acres neighborhood in North Naples. According to the Florida Highway Patrol, a 14-year-old Naples boy riding an e-bike died in the crash. The crash happened at approximately 5 p.m. Saturday. FHP troopers said the teen was going east on Madison Drive and was approaching a posted stop sign at the intersection

Pasco County deputies are searching for a suspect who fatally shot a man in Holiday. The shooting occurred in the Roxbury Drive area of Holiday, according to the Pasco County Sheriff’s Office (PCSO). After the adult male was shot, he was taken for medical attention but was later pronounced dead. The suspect fled the area before deputies arrived, PCSO officials said. Deputies are currently looking for the suspect. No other information was made available as the investigation continues. At Ovadia

Photo by: mypanhandle The Florida Highway Patrol responded to a fatal crash in Liberty County on Saturday. According to a news release, a Chevrolet Malibu was traveling west in the westbound lane of State Road 12, roughly one mile east of M.L. King Road. Officials said it appeared the driver fell asleep, leading the vehicle off the paved portion of the roadway. As a result, the vehicle collided with some underbrush and a tree and rotated clockwise while still attached

Florida Highway Patrol is investigating after a pedestrian was hit and killed in a crash in Lake County overnight. Troopers said the crash happened around 12:50 a.m. on Saturday on Plymouth Sorrento Road north of Adair Avenue. A 2017 Toyota Tacoma traveling southbound on Plymouth Sorrento Rd struck a pedestrian who was walking south in the roadway. The pickup’s driver was uninjured and remained on the scene. The 54-year-old Sorrento man was transported to an area hospital, where he was

Photo by: (St. Cloud Fire Rescue) No injuries were reported after a vehicle smashed into a power transformer in St. Cloud before it erupted in flames on Saturday, according to a news release. Fire Officials said they responded to the blaze that quickly spread to a nearby building, before they were able to extinguish it. According to the release, an exact location of the crash was not given, but OUC had to cut power for crews to fight the fire. That

An Orlando man is dead and two children are among five others hurt after a wrong-way crash on Interstate 4 in Seminole County early Saturday, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. The crash occurred around 3:57 a.m. in the area of mile marker 94, near exits to State Road 434 in Wekiwa Springs. According an FHP crash report, the wreck involved a 2012 Honda Accord, a 2025 Honda Odyssey and a 2007 Peterbilt tractor-trailer. The Accord — driven by a

Orlando police responding to a report of gunfire coming from a parked van located a man inside of the vehicle who had been shot. Officers arrived around 2:48 a.m. Saturday to the 5700 block of Curry Ford Road, where they found the man — identified as 59-year-old Luis G. Vicente-Martinez — suffering from a gunshot wound, the Orlando Police Department said in a statement. Vicente-Martinez was pronounced dead at the scene, the statement reads. The 911 caller had reported “multiple

photo by: (Florida Highway Patrol) Four people were hospitalized for treatment of serious injuries in a crash Saturday morning which forced all southbound lanes of State Road 429 to temporarily be shut down in Orange County, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. The crash occurred in the area of mile marker 20, near exits to Winter Garden Vineland Road, troopers said. According to a preliminary FHP crash report, the crash involved a 2007 Chevrolet Impala, a 2021 Nissan van with a

Two people were injured in a shooting near the boardwalk in Daytona Beach on Saturday, according to police. Officers responded around 7:35 p.m. and located two 19-year-old men who suffered non-life-threatening gunshot wounds, the Daytona Beach Police Department said in a news release. The men were taken to the hospital, where they were in stable condition at last check, the release states. Preliminary findings suggest the victims and suspect — or suspects — were previously known to each other, police

Video appeared to show sparks coming from an American Airlines plane’s engine before it landed at Miami International Airport on Friday. The footage showed flashes of light near one of the plane’s engines as it was in the sky near the airport. “It looked like the back of the turbine had like a bonfire coming out of it, like huge, long tendrils of flames coming out of the back of this turbine,” said JF, who shot the video. Another video

 A Gainesville man was killed after crashing his car in Newberry on March, 14. Florida Highway Patrol troopers say the 45-year-old was driving down Northwest Fourth Avenue around 10:30 p.m. They say he swerved off the road and crashed his Chevy Sedan into a tree. He was dead when troopers got to the wreck. They did not say why the man swerved off the road. At Ovadia Law Group, we know that a car accident can turn your life upside