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A home in Lynn Haven caught fire Wednesday afternoon. The City of Panama City, the City of Lynn Haven, and Bay County Fire and Rescue arrived around 1 p.m. at the smoky scene on Wood Valley Road. Flames engulfed the house, with nearly 20 miles per hour winds igniting the fire within. Pops were also heard near the fire; propane bottles were likely the cause of this noise. “We received a call for a residential structure fire on the scene. The

A 4-year-old girl was killed after she was run over by an SUV in a private driveway, the Florida Highway Patrol said. The incident happened around 7:15 p.m. Tuesday. The girl was standing next to the right rear passenger door of a 2018 Chevrolet Traverse that was parked in the driveway near Robinson Avenue and 13th Street, according to an FHP report. The driver, a 37-year-old Apopka woman, was unaware the child was there and pulled forward, causing the girl

A man from Dunnellon faces assault and battery charges after Marion County Sheriff’s deputies say he attacked two strangers in their vehicle. Deputies say 43-year-old Robbie Mikolaj blocked the roadway at Southwest 93rd Lane Road and forced the victims to stop. The driver told deputies Mikolaj attacked her and her 86-year-old stepfather. Deputies say Mikolaj gave them bizarre statements, such as the van the victims were traveling in being “fake.” Your Legal Resource for Personal Injury SupportWhen you’re dealing with

A 73-year-old woman from Williston is dead and a 69-year-old man from Williston is in the hospital after a vehicle crash in Marion County Wednesday night. Florida Highway Patrol troopers say the 69-year-old was driving his sedan on US 27, just west of Northwest 168th Avenue in Morriston, at around 8:30 p.m. A 28-year-old man from Ocala was driving a large farm tractor north on US 27 ahead of the sedan. The driver of the sedan rear-ended the farm tractor.

Photo: NBC Miami A driver was airlifted to the hospital after a crash on Interstate 75 in Weston on Thursday morning. The Florida Highway Patrol said troopers responded to the crash with injuries in the northbound lanes of I-75 near Glades Parkway. A silver Kia struck a concrete wall, and two other vehicles were damaged in the crash, officials said. A city alert said a vehicle involved was on fire, and Broward Sheriff’s Office Fire Rescue was at the scene.

A man from Lee County turned himself in at the Miami Police Department on Tuesday after authorities said he was identified as the suspect in a February hit-and-run that sent a city police officer to the hospital. T M, 33, of Alva, is accused of seriously injuring Officer Daniel Cantero, an MPD motorcycle officer, in a crash on Interstate 195 on Feb. 12. According to an MPD arrest report, Cantero and another driver had “sideswiped each other” just after 11 p.m. near

Rescue crews took a Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office motorman to the hospital after he was rear-ended by a pickup truck at a stoplight in Southwest Miami-Dade, leading deputies to temporarily close the busy intersection. 7Skyforce hovered above a heavy presence from MDSO deputies at the corner of Southwest 120th Street and 127th Avenue, early Wednesday afternoon. A motorcycle was seen on its side in the middle of the intersection. Cellphone video later posted on social media by Only in Dade captured

Coral Springs Vice Mayor Nancy Metayer Bowen has been found dead, officials said. 7Skyforce hovered over Metayer Bowen’s residence which police had surrounded on Wednesday afternoon. Coral Springs Police discovered her body while conducting a welfare check at her home located at the 800 block of NW 127th Avenue. Preliminary investigation determined that the incident was “domestic in nature,” according to officials. Metayer Bowen’s husband, Stephen Bowen, was taken into police custody. 7News cameras also captured investigators coming in and out

Two people were hospitalized after a car slammed into a United States Postal Service office in Pinecrest. The incident took place near South Dixie Highway and Killian Drive on Wednesday. Police said that the driver’s foot slipped from the brake and onto the gas, causing the car to hit the building. Two people sitting on a bench were hit, with one person and the driver taken to the hospital. Both are expected to be OK. Legal Help After a Car

Wednesday afternoon, Bay County Fire Rescue responded to reports of a house fire on Wood Valley Road. Dispatch received the call shortly before 1:15 p.m., and crews arrived on scene at 1:22 p.m. Bay County Fire Rescue responded with assistance from Panama City and Lynn Haven. While working to put out the fire, Crews face challenges such as wind speed and direction. Fire leaders applaud the response. “They were able to protect all the exposures and not let the fire

A child was airlifted to Tallahassee Memorial Hospital after jumping from a moving car on Highway 98 in Franklin County on Wednesday morning. The Florida Highway Patrol said the 7-year-old, who was riding in the back seat, unbuckled herself, climbed into the front passenger seat and tried to roll down the window. After her mother rolled it back up, troopers said the child opened the passenger door and jumped from the vehicle as it traveled about 55 mph, hitting the

The Florida Highway Patrol said a man died in Marion County on Wednesday evening after a pickup truck left the road and struck him while he was riding a lawnmower. FHP said the crash happened on NW 118th Street Road, near Reddick, around 6:45 p.m. when a Ford F-150, which was heading south on the roadway, “failed to negotiate” a sharp right curve. The pickup truck left the road, hit a traffic control sign, and then hit a 73-year-old man