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One person passed away during a construction accident at Tampa International Airport on July 31. Officials say he tried escaping the excavator before the fatal fall. According to a statement from TPA, airport police received reports about the incident around 7:41 a.m. Officials said the accident involved a construction equipment operator working as part of the Airside A shuttle guideway renovation project. Some construction equipment reportedly fell off the shuttle track with the operator still inside. Officials said that Cesar

Margaret A. Gissome, 35, of Belle Glade was arrested Wednesday and charged with one count of child abuse. A report from the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office notes that Gissome is accused of punching a child in the face for providing wrong answers to homework. The child sustained visible injuries to her eyes and lip. Gissome is also accused of shaking the child. Gissome was released from the Palm Beach County Jail Friday on $2,500 bond and was ordered not

Video of an aggressive throw by a Miami-Dade Schools police officer shows a Miami Edison Senior High School student being tossed in the air head over heels before landing on the ground. The incident, all captured on cellphone video, occurred when 15-year-old Ikeria Tate said officers were responding to a fight outside the Little Haiti school’s locker rooms after a football game on Wednesday. “He should’ve never (done) that,” Tate said. “He had grabbed me and slammed me on the

The man accused of driving the wrong way and then fleeing the scene of a crash that killed popular TikTok personality Ali Spice and two others pleaded no contest Friday to charges that could send him to prison for life. Thomas Petry, 55, of Orange City, was driving a pickup truck westbound in the eastbound lane on State Road 44 just east of Interstate 4 on Dec. 11, 2022, when the truck collided head-on with an Infiniti Q50, according to police. Three passengers in the Infiniti

Police are investigating after a man was shot and killed in West Little River in northwest Miami-Dade on Friday morning. Miami-Dade Police officials said officers responded to a ShotSpotter alert happened around 6:30 a.m. in the 900 block Northwest 80th Street. Once there, first responders found the victim and took him to Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center in critical condition. He later died. Police did not immediately share more information about a potential motive or suspect. Officials were investigating another shooting

A 20-year-old man from Jacksonville died in a crash on State Road 23, also known as First Coast Expressway, Thursday evening, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. Troopers said around 6:30 p.m., the 20-year-old was driving southbound in the outside lane of SR-23, approaching Mile Marker 34. Meanwhile, a pickup truck was parked in the outside lane of the road behind a coned-off accident scene, and another car was parked in front of it. According to FHP, the man continued

On Thursday the Florida Highway Patrol Homicide Division arrested the 17 Year old involved in last week’s deadly Lehigh Acres State Road 82 Crash. The 17 Year old has been charged with the following: Last friday night A 17-year-old passenger from Lehigh Acres was ejected from the car and died after an accident involving four vehicles.Florida Highway Patrol says the teen was a passenger in a car with the 17-year-old driver that has now been arrested. The car approached Harcourt

Springfield police are investigating a car accident Thursday night that sent a local man to the hospital. He was hit while walking his dogs. The accident happened around 8:30 Thursday. Springfield Assistant Police Chief Russell Voyles said the man was walking his two dogs when he was hit by a car on Douglas Road. One of the dogs ran away. They are still searching for the puppy at this time. Chief Voyles said witnesses saw a car in the area,

Photo by: WFTS An assistant professor at The University of South Florida and his wife lost their home after a fire destroyed it last month. The tragedy struck weeks before the couple was expecting their first child. The fire started on August 27 around 11:00 a.m. at their home in St. Petersburg. Tony Pham said he removed clothes from the dryer and was inside the home. “I was getting my clothes out of the dryer then I went to my

A 73-year-old Ocala man was killed on Thursday after his car veered off a local roadway and struck a tree. The fatal crash occurred at around 4:55 p.m. on Thursday, September 12, near the intersection of Baseline Road and NE 24th Street. According to a report from the Florida Highway Patrol, a Toyota Corolla was heading southbound on Baseline Road, just south of the NE 24th intersection, when the vehicle left the roadway and traveled onto the west grassy shoulder.

Final closing arguments are set to begin on Friday for Laurie Shaver, a Lake County woman accused of killing her husband and burying his body beneath a firepit and concrete slab in 2015. Shaver is on trial on charges of second-degree murder and accessory after the fact in her husband, Michael Shaver’s death. She’s accused of killing him sometime in 2015 and then hiding his body for years beneath a concrete slab in the backyard of her Clermont home.  Following closing

The Brief A father in St. Cloud was preparing to drop his daughter off at the bus stop when he was attacked and stabbed by two masked men, according to the St. Cloud Police Department. The attack happened around 6 a.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024, outside a home on Settlers Trail Road. According to the incident report, the man and his daughter walked out of their house towards the car. As the two got in, the man noticed an