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A Pensacola mother killed her 10-year-old daughter in a murder-suicide, according to the sheriff’s office. Deputies responded Monday morning to the 2000 block of North B Street near Lakeview Avenue for a welfare check. According to the sheriff’s office, deputies located a woman deceased in a bed with a self-inflicted gunshot wound. They also found her 10-year-old daughter laying in the bed deceased with a gunshot wound. “The subsequent investigation revealed that the female had taken the life of her

Two shootings in Palatka left four people injured on Monday, according to the police department. One shooting happened early Monday morning at a church parking lot on the corner of Reid and Ida streets. Two people were shot. One was taken to the hospital, and the other transported themselves. Hours later, more gun violence erupted in a parking lot near the intersection of Reid and 19th streets, which is about two miles from the first shooting. Police said a 21-year-old

Photo by: WPEC A 69-year-old woman is dead following a crash where a car ended up in a canal, according to a report released by the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office (PBSO). According to PBSO’s crash report, the crash occurred at 12:30 p.m. on Monday. The report says, the woman, identified as Joanne Romano, was a passenger in a 2014 Honda Crosstour that was being driven by a 59-year-old woman. The report says the Honda was heading south on Boca

What was once a close friendship between two young men ended in tragedy earlier this month when a 21-year-old man was arrested Friday for allegedly shooting his former best friend in North Miami Beach, authorities confirmed Monday. According to an arrest report from the North Miami Beach Police Department, Litvinochy Erick Hermantin now faces serious charges after an ongoing feud with the victim escalated into a violent confrontation. Police said the incident began in the early hours of Sept. 7

A Lakeland man was killed in a traffic crash on Saturday after his vehicle hit a pick-up truck head-on after crossing into the oncoming lanes. Lakeland Police Department (LPD) officers responded to the crash at about 8:49 p.m. in the 4100 block of State Road 33. Maurice Knight, 50, of Lakeland, was driving a silver Toyota sedan southbound on S.R. 33. For unknown reasons, the sedan struck the west curb, entered the center median, then crossed into the northbound lanes

A Georgia man is facing four felonies in South Florida after police said he attacked his girlfriend’s children while on a cruise, beating one with a suitcase, kicking another in the mouth and yanking a braid out of the head of another. Miami-Dade police arrested Damion Fryer, 32, of Hampton, Georgia, after Royal Caribbean’s Allure of the Seas returned to PortMiami on Friday. According to an arrest report, the incident happened at around 7:30 p.m. on Sept. 16. Police said

An Ocala man was arrested early Sunday morning after he allegedly shot a woman in the abdomen near the University of Florida campus. According to an arrest report, Fabian Marcel Rivera, 24, was arrested and charged with first-degree premeditated murder and resisting officers without violence. Gainesville Police Department (GPD) officers responded to the shooting around 3:34 a.m. in the 1700 block of NW 1st Avenue where they discovered a female victim on the sidewalk who had been shot in the abdomen.

A man is dead and another is in jail after a fatal shooting in Escambia County Sunday night. The Escambia County Sheriff’s Office responded to a report of shots fired in the 8700-block of Rebel Acres Lane near Beulah around 10 p.m. According to the sheriff’s office, anunidentified 40-year-old man was found dead in the yard of with a gunshot would. The suspect, 33-year-old Dennis Herrera Canales, was taken into custody a short time later following a traffic stop. He’s

On Monday morning, an accident on State Road 79 left a bicyclist dead. According to Florida Highway Officials, a 47-year-old man from Gulfport Mississippi was driving north in the outside lane of SR 79 south of Pine Log Road, the inside northbound lane was closed due to construction. A male bicyclist was cycling north on the east-paved shoulder of SR 79, while the vehicle was passing the cyclist, the biker went off the roadway onto the east grass shoulder of

Photo by: UC Breaking One person has been injured after a Publix Super Markets semi-truck and an SUV collided leaving the SUV on its side. According to the Collier County Sheriff’s Office, the crash happened on Immokalee Road and Tarpon Bay Boulevard in North Naples at around 9 a.m. Monday. One person was transported to a local hospital with minor injuries. The two westbound lanes of Immokalee Road were closed for some time but have since reopened. The sheriff’s office is investigating the