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OCALA, Fla. (WCJB) – Marion County Sheriff’s deputies say a man fell from scaffolding at the World Equestrian Center (WEC) and died Monday afternoon. Authorities say he was a construction worker who fell just before 1 p.m. A 911 caller told operators the worker fell off scaffolding. Construction is underway at WEC for a new event center and shopping plaza, However, it’s not confirmed whether this is the site of the accident. “They have to be strapped to the roof

MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – Newly-obtained surveillance video shows a man wanted for murder crashing what police said is his victim’s car as they pursued him in southwest Miami-Dade over the weekend. Roiniel Perez, 31, bailed out afterward but was apprehended soon after. Perez is accused of stabbing 52-year-old Oscar Rene Hernandez Augustin, partially burning his body and leaving it along a dirt road in the rural Redland area. Perez then stole his Toyota Corolla, police said. Augustin had last been seen on Tuesday;

UPDATE: This has been deemed an electrical accident and the trailer is most likely a total loss. One family has been displaced and the Red Cross has been contacted. Officials confirmed there were no injuries. BAY COUNTY, Fla. (WMBB) – Panama City officials are still investigating the cause of an overnight house fire that started around 10:30 p.m. last night in the Drummond Park area. A mobile home in the 2500 block of Drummond Avenue caught fire. First responders on-scene

BAY COUNTY, Fla. (WMBB) – A Fountain man is dead following a crash at the intersection of Highway 231 and Cherokee Heights Road. It happened around 5:30 p.m. on Monday night. Panama City officials say a motorcyclist was traveling northbound on Highway 231 approaching Cherokee Heights Road when for an unknown reason a truck pulling a trailer collided with the motorcycle. The driver of the motorcycle, 31-year-old Trenton Hood, was thrown from his bike and pronounced dead at the scene.

A Tampa man was seriously injured when an out-of-control SUV hit a parked car, propelling it through a home, Florida Highway Patrol said. PASCO COUNTY, FL — Investigators are looking for a hit-and-run suspect who ran from the scene after crashing an SUV into a Pasco County home early Tuesday morning, according to a Florida Highway Patrol news release. A Chevy Tahoe was heading south on U.S. 41 around 12:30 a.m. when the driver, a woman, lost control and left

PARRISH, Fla. (WWSB) – An 18-year-old was killed in a motorcycle crash in Parrish on Tuesday. According to Florida Highway Patrol, the motorcycle was approaching the intersection of 116th Avenue E at a “high rate of speed” when a large truck entered the intersection by making a left turn and traveling into the immediate path of the motorcycle. The 18-year-old motorcyclist was pronounced dead on scene. The Florida Highway Patrol Traffic Homicide Unit continues to investigate this crash. ABC7 will

Picture by: local10 OPA-LOCKA, Fla. – Police are investigating after a shooting Tuesday afternoon in Opa-locka and a victim later arrived at a local trauma center. Opa-locka police said officers responded to the 2000 block of Lincoln Avenue around 12:50 p.m. following reports of gunfire and a vehicle fleeing the scene at high speed. Shortly after, hospital staff notified authorities that a gunshot victim had arrived at Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center. Sky 10 flew over the scene where a

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,