A total of ten people were injured in a school bus crash on Monday near Walt Disney World. According to Orange County Fire Rescue officials, 50 students were on the bus headed to a local middle school. Nine of those students were transported to local hospitals with injuries. The crash…
A 4-year-old child died Monday after being found unresponsive in a swimming pool on a Norwegian Cruise Line ship off the North Carolina coast. A 6-year-old boy was also found in the pool Monday morning, but a medical team was able to revive the boy and he was flown to…
A 72-year-old man was killed after being struck by four vehicles near the intersection of County Road 44 and South Fish Camp Road in Grand Island northwest of Eustis shortly before 7 a.m. Thursday. According to Florida Highway Patrol troopers, the Fruitland Park man was on the south shoulder of County…
A Mount Dora man injured while riding his 2008 Harley-Davidson Electra Glide motorcycle last month passed away recently. According to Florida Highway Patrol troopers, the 51-year-old died Monday, Dec. 30, at 1:03 p.m. at Ocala Regional Medical Center. His 49-year-old wife, also of Mount Dora, remains at ORMC. The accident…
A Canadian passenger aboard a Royal Caribbean Cruise ship vanished recently, and police in the Cayman Islands suspect the 65-year-old may have fallen off the boat. Search crews have been scouring the waters around the British Caribbean territory looking for the unidentified man believed to have fallen around dawn Tuesday…
Rebecca Ann Sedwick’s story made national news this year after she climbed to the top of a deserted concrete factory and jumped to her death. A local police investigation into her suicide revealed a journal that documented months of bullying from classmates, generating a nationwide debate on how to prevent…
A 42-year-old woman was killed early Wednesday morning after a tree fell on her Gainesville home as she slept, according to authorities. The tree apparently fell on a trailer around 2 a.m. while the woman and her 40-year-old husband were sleeping in their bedroom. A spokesman for the Alachua County…
A Kissimmee biker was ejected from his motorcycle and killed in a hit-and-run crash Tuesday morning that shut down eastbound Interstate 4 for almost four hours, resulting in a traffic backup of at least five miles. Law-enforcement officers are currently looking for the motorist that fled the scene of the…
A 6-year-old boy, who was on a four-day Caribbean cruise on the Carnival Victory, drowned in one of the ship’s pools Sunday, according to Carnival Cruise Lines. The boy was apparently in the pool area with other members of his family when the accident occurred. Carnival released the following statement:…
A 43-year-old Miami man was killed Saturday while boating in Key Largo with his girlfriend. Autopsy reports are pending at this time. The girlfriend claims the man jumped into the water to cool off, but the current began sweeping him away. He apparently grabbed onto a fishing line they had…