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A 7-year-old Holt boy has died following a two-vehicle crash in Santa Rosa County on Friday, according to Florida Highway Patrol. The crash occurred around 5 p.m. at the intersection of Sandy Forest Road and Bryant Bridge Road, according to FHP. Troopers say a 73-year-old Holt woman was driving an SUV west on Bryant Bridge Road, while a 59-year-old Ponce De Leon man was driving a pickup trucksouth on Sandy Forest Road. According to FHP, the pickup truck driver ran

A man was injured in a shooting in Pompano Beach, according to authorities. Broward Sheriff’s Office deputies and Pompano Beach Fire Rescue responded to a home located in the 1500 block of Northeast 28th Street at around 4:30 p.m., Monday. The victim was transported to Broward Health North. His condition is currently unknown. Authorities said the suspect fled the area on foot. A perimeter has been established as deputies search for the shooter. Victims of negligent shootings deserve justice and

The Florida Highway Patrol arrested a suspect after a pursuit on US-19 Monday morning. According to FHP, the suspect, a 32-year-old Port Richey man, was driving recklessly on US-19 going southbound. During the pursuit, the suspect sideswiped multiple vehicles and drove southbound in the northbound lane of US-19. The pursuit was called off due to losing sight of the vehicle at US-19 and Sunray Drive. Shortly after losing sight of the vehicle, troopers got reports that the suspect crashed on

Photo by: Local10  Police are investigating after they said a car crashed into a 64-year-old man who was riding a scooter near Miami Norland Senior High School early Tuesday morning. It happened near the intersection of Northwest Seventh Avenue and Northwest 194th Street in Miami Gardens. Miami Fire Rescue Lt. Pete Sanchez confirmed that the man was “thrown from the scooter” during the crash. Sanchez said the man was transported to Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center in critical condition

A 74-year-old man was struck and killed Saturday morning while crossing Nova Road in Ormond Beach, police said. The fatal wreck happened around 6:30 a.m. Ormond Beach police said a vehicle was northbound in the right lane on Nova Road and had a green traffic light, and the pedestrian was crossing against the crosswalk signal and was not in a crosswalk. The man was taken to Halifax Medical Center as a trauma alert but later died, according to police. The

A pet grooming employee has been fired after doorbell camera video shows him kicking a dog that he was grooming. The video, recorded last Monday, shows a man outside a home in Northeast Miami-Dade wearing a shirt that reads Deluxe Mobile Pet Grooming. He first kicks the small Maltese/Shih Tzu mix dog in the back of the neck then follows that by kicking it in the head. The company, with a business in Hialeah, told 7News via text message that

Lakeland Police say a man allegedly rammed multiple police vehicles in a shopping plaza parking lot and fled from police. Lakeland Police said they received calls around 12:45 p.m. Monday about a man who was asleep in a running car at a stop sign at 1700 Lakehurst Drive. Officers attempted to wake the man up, and when he awoke, he hit a vehicle with his car and left the area. Police located the man again a short time later at

 A teen who was struck by lightning last month in St. Petersburg has died, according to the Pinellas County Medical Examiner’s Office. Ashley King, 16, died at a hospital from injuries sustained on July 25 when lightning struck a popular banyan tree, officials said. Three other teens were under the tree at the time. “It had become clear over the past few days that the injuries Ashley suffered were too great to overcome,” the family wrote on their GoFundMe. “Fight as she did,

The Lee County Sheriff’s Office arrested a Cape Coral man accused of animal abuse that caused the dog to die. Deputies identified the owner as Jonathan Urquizo, 26, after responding to the Blue Pearl Animal Hospital on Thursday around 6:30 p.m. Once deputies arrived at the animal hospital they met with employees who said the 16-yer-old Golden Labrador named Molly was in for emergency treatment. The report states Molly was thin and weak with maggots crawling from her rectum. The

A 41-year-old man with several prior DUI convictions was arrested with an unopened case of Twisted Tea and a cold, empty can in his car’s cupholder after a deputy allegedly witnessed him swerve over the center line, use the wrong turn signal, and flee from a traffic stop.  On Sunday, August 18, a Marion County Sheriff’s Office deputy observed a red Ford SUV that was drifting over the center line while traveling northbound on SE 170th Avenue. The driver, later

An Ocklawaha man was arrested on suspicion of drunk driving after causing a traffic accident near a Burger King. An officer responded to a single vehicle accident with airbag deployment near Burger King, located at 1201 N. 14th Street, around 9:04 p.m. Tuesday, according to an arrest report from the Leesburg Police Department.  The officer arrived at the scene to see an orange two-door Ford Mustang and its registered owner, 31-year-old Jonathan James Petrone, getting out of it. He used the