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A Pennsylvania woman is suing Walt Disney Parks and Resorts after she was allegedly pushed over during a “stampede” at the resort’s Magic Kingdom park in Florida, leaving her with permanent injuries. The woman, Debra O’Steen, said the park was “packed” and “extremely busy” when the incident occurred. According to the lawsuit, O’Steen was walking on Main Street, just north of Casey’s Corner restaurant, when a crowd rushed her and knocked her over in a “stampede” due to an event

A 55-year-old man is facing a felony charge in South Florida for a bizarre impersonation scheme that left pizza customers getting a raw deal, authorities said. Police said he ran “an elaborate scheme to defraud tourists staying in the hotels of Miami Springs” by pretending to be a well-known local pizza parlor. According to police, customers who thought they were ordering pies from Roman’s Pizzeria, located at 391 N. Royal Poinciana Blvd., were instead getting subpar slices from Jose Marti-Alvarez.

 A woman suffering from dementia and identified as a “fall risk” was allegedly ignored, disregarded, and permitted to fall to her death at the Barrington Terrace nursing facility in Boynton Beach. The company running the facility is now on the receiving end of a lawsuit filed in Palm Beach County Circuit Court. The suit alleges extreme misconduct, poor management, ineffective employee training, and a total disregard for medical orders. Nora Mahns died after falling multiple times in the facility, according

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,