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An officer is being treated for an injury he sustained while chasing a suspect on Saturday evening. According to the Clearwater Police Department, the officer was chasing the fleeing suspect in the area of Martin Luther King Drive and La Salle Street. While going over a fence, the officer cut his leg. The cut sent him to a hospital for treatment but the severity of the injury is unknown at this time. Police said the fleeing suspect is in custody,

A woman was stabbed during an argument with her boyfriend overnight Saturday in Escambia County. Units responded to Baptist Hospital for a cutting victim, where the woman was treated for a small stab wound on the right side of her lower back and later released, according to ECSO. The woman told deputies that her boyfriend of one month, identified as 40-year-old SF, stabbed her during an argument and refused to let her leave his storage unit where he lives. Deputies

photo by: (WPLG) A pedestrian was struck by a SUV Saturday morning while crossing Pine Island Road near 44th Street in Sunrise, authorities said. The crash happened around 8:14 a.m. when a SUV heading southbound hit the pedestrian near a Chevron gas station, according to authorities. Sunrise police said the driver remained at the scene, and the pedestrian was taken to Broward Health Medical Center for treatment. The pedestrian’s condition wasn’t immediately available. A Local 10 News crew was at

Orlando police announced Saturday that a man had been arrested in connection to a home invasion on Friday which left a woman badly hurt. Officers responded around 1:46 p.m. Friday to a home in the 2300 block of Caribbean Court, where the victim’s husband had found his wife severely battered at their home, according to a news release shared by the Orlando Police Department. The husband told police that an unknown man forcibly entered their home and brutally attacked his

An 18-year-old Orlando man was fatally struck by an SUV early Saturday in Volusia County while walking on International Speedway Boulevard, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. The crash occurred around 12:52 a.m. along eastbound International Speedway Boulevard, east of Red John Drive, troopers said. According to an FHP crash report, the man was struck by a 2019 Jeep Grand Cherokee that was traveling eastbound in the outside lane. The man was pronounced dead at the scene, the report states.

A single-vehicle rollover crash Friday night in Casselberry resulted in a person’s death, according to police and firefighters. The crash occurred around 11 p.m. in the area of Howell Branch Road and Lake Ann Drive, the Seminole County Fire Department confirmed. According to the Casselberry Police Department, the vehicle that crashed was carrying two occupants, both of them described as male. Police said that the person who died was a passenger in the vehicle, adding he was pronounced dead by

A 38-year-old woman died after she crashed into a tree in Tamarac, deputies said. The Broward Sheriff’s Office arrived at the scene early Saturday morning near West Prospect Road and West Commercial Boulevard. According to detectives, the driver, 38-year-old NLM, was heading westbound on West Commercial Boulevard and for unknown reasons, her vehicle went toward the raised concrete median. She struck the median and then hit the tree. Rescue crews at the scene found the vehicle and extricated her. M

An investigation is underway after a hit-and-run driver struck a man in unincorporated Broward County. According to BSO, the incident happened early Saturday morning at 2400 block of West Sunrise Boulevard. Once deputies arrived at the scene, they found an adult male who was injured, while the suspect fled the scene. The victim was transported to an area hospital with severe injuries. BSO said their Traffic Homicide was requested to investigate the hit-and-run due to the severity of the victim’s

An Ocala woman was killed and a man was seriously hurt after they crashed into each other Saturday morning. According to Florida Highway Patrol troopers say the two were driving down County Road 484 around 7 a.m. They say they were going opposite ways, then crashed into each other head-on. A 50-year-old woman died and a 21-year-old man was seriously injured. Personalized Legal Services for Car Accident CasesEvery car accident case is unique, and at Ovadia Law Group, we provide

An elderly woman was killed in a hit-and-run and left for dead on the side of the road, according to the Broward County Sheriff’s Office (BSO). According to BSO, the deadly hit-and-run occurred on Wednesday at around 7:57 p.m., near North Powerline Road in Oakland Park. Through investigative means, deputies found BP, 80, was crossing the street outside the designated crosswalk when she was suddenly struck by a vehicle that fled the area. The impact was so strong, that Price

Confession lands West Palm Beach hit-and-run suspect behind bars after police recognized his car during a DUI stop. Police say they caught the suspect after canvassing the area and finding EV VF allegedly drunk and asleep on the shoulder in a black 2003 Ford Expedition that matched the description of the vehicle involved in a November hit-and-run. At 9:30 p.m. on Sunday, November 16, 2024, West Palm Beach Police (WPBPD) said 27-year-old RH-V of Riviera Beach was killed in a