Husband, Wife and child Killed in Crash, Gerald Pittman, Sylvia Pittman, and Jarod Pittman

RUSKIN, Fla. — Three people were killed and one person is being treated at a hospital after being injured in a two-vehicle crash in Hillsborough County.The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office says the Sunday night crash in Ruskin happened when the driver of a sedan ran a stop sign, colliding with a sport utility vehicle. Officials [...]

Tiger Woods 911 transcript. Read in full here.

Dispatcher 1: 911 what’s your emergency?
Caller: I have, this is, uh … (redacted) in the Isleworth subdivision. I need an ambulance immediately. I have someone down in front of my house. They hit a pole. I came out to see.
Dispatcher 1: Is it a car accident, sir?
(inaudible)
Dispatcher 1: Sir, is it a car accident? Hello? [...]

Homeowner Kills Would be truck thief, Steve Hilson dies age 32

CLERMONT, Fla. — Lake County Sheriff’s deputies are investigating a fatal shooting at a home on County Road 561 in Clermont.According to officials, the homeowner, 70-year-old Russell Conrad, was awakened by the sound of his truck’s horn early Saturday morning. When he went outside to investigate, he found a man inside his truck.
Conrad fired warning [...]

Miguel Torres DeLaRosa pleads guilty to strangling child.

PALM BAY, Fla. — A Palm Bay man will spend the next two years in prison for choking his two-year-old son because he soiled his diaper.Miguel Torres de la Rosa pleaded guilty to tying a belt around the boy’s neck and trying to strangle him.He was also forced to give up parental rights to [...]

Shaquille Oneal pays for slain toddlers funeral.

Basketball star Shaquille O’Neal paid for the funeral of a 5-year-old North Carolina girl after being moved by national news coverage of the case of Shaniya Davis, who police say was kidnapped and killed.
The Cleveland Cavaliers player was touched by the stories he saw and got in touch with the family to see what he [...]

James Tolbert murdered in Daytona Beach, Florida

VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. — Drugs may have led to a man’s murder in Daytona Beach.Officers say 34-year-old James Tolbert was found shot to death in front of home on Baldwin Lane Friday Afternoon.Eyewitnesses say they saw two men running away from the area just after a shot was fired.Investigators say they don’t have an exact [...]

Tiger Woods Professional Golfer injured badly in car crash,

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — Professional golfer Tiger Woods was seriously hurt during a car crash near his Windermere home early Friday morning. According to the Florida Highway Patrol, the 33-year-old was driving a 2009 Cadillac SUV when he hit a fire hydrant and then slammed into a tree on Deacon Circle at 2:25 AM.
Woods was [...]

ThanksGiving Shooting death, Ramone Joseph, Carla & Lisa Merhige & 6 year old McKayla Sitton shot to death.

Four people are dead, including a child, after a Thanksgiving night shooting in Palm Beach County and police are still searching for the alleged gunman.Jupiter police say a fifth person is undergoing treatment at a local hospital.The incident happened shortly after 10 p.m. Thursday. The four victims are identified by police as: Ramone Joseph, Carla [...]

Mount Dora Florida, Terry Clayton shot and killed. Age 56

MT. DORA, Fla. — A man was found dead in a home in Mt. Dora on Wednesday morning and investigators say he was shot to death.Investigators say the call actually came in as a noise complaint around 2:45am, but when officers arrived on Hackett Street (see map), someone directed them to the house where they [...]

Orlando,Florida ranks 17 on the scale of highest crime in Country.

ORLANDO, Fla. — A new report shows Orlando is the 17th worst city in the country for crime and number one in the state.The Congressional Quarterly Press released its rankings (see full rankings) of the country’s most dangerous cities, based on FBI statistics. Number one on the list was Camden, New Jersey. Orlando was the [...]

Ready Aim Draw! Clerk shoots robber in stomach. Robber begs for mercy.

Clerk Who Shot Suspect Says Gunman Begged For Mercy
Posted: 6:05 am EST November 25, 2009Updated: 2:36 pm EST November 25, 2009
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BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. — The clerk who shot a robber was back at work Wednesday morning and police say he was well within his rights to gun the man down Tuesday [...]

Palin Perez Jackson shot to death by SWAT.

ORLANDO, Fla. — Police say a man with guns barricaded himself and four children inside a downtown Orlando house for three and a half hours Wednesday. It finally ended when police shot him dead.Police say the man walked out of the house holding one of his guns and wouldn’t put it down. Eyewitness News has [...]

Misty Croslins dad arrested for Doctor Shopping.

PUTNAM COUNTY, Fla. — The father of Misty Croslin, who was the last person to see missing Putnam County girl Haleigh Cummings alive, has been arrested. However, his arrest is not related to the little girl’s disappearance.Deputies arrested Hank Croslin Sr. Tuesday on charges that he was doctor-shopping for oxycodone and hydrocodone pills from three [...]

Lottery winner missing. Abraham Shakespeare.

LAKELAND, Fla. — Authorities are asking for the public’s help in finding a man, who won the Florida lottery in 2006, and has now disappeared.The Polk County Sheriff’s Office on Tuesday said Abraham Shakespeare, 43, of Lakeland, was reported missing on Nov. 9.
Abraham Shakespeare
His friends and family told detectives that Shakespeare was last seen in [...]

DownTown shooting victim Guy Lugenbeel speaks about shootings.

ORLANDO, Fla. — Orlando’s deadly office shootings, and the gunman behind them, were seen around the world, but only Channel 9 was the first to talk to a victim who carries his bullet with him.”If, uh, an angel didn’t take charge of that bullet when it touched my body, it could’ve ended my life,” Guy [...]

Tyrone Dukes 41, drags woman into bushes and rapes her. Arrested on rape charges in Orlando, Florida

ORLANDO, Fla. — A woman walking home early Tuesday morning told Orlando police she was approached by a man armed with a gun, dragged into nearby bushes and raped. Police said the victim flagged down an officer shortly after the crime and provided a description of the suspect that led to his arrest.
SUSPECT IN CUSTODY: [...]

Pastors in Miami schemed 7 million dollars.

MIAMI — A South Florida pastor and his wife have been convicted in Miami federal court on charges that they took part in A $7 million money laundering and mortgage fraud scheme.Garry and Yvonne Souffrant, of Davie, were convicted Monday. They had been charged with conspiring to defraud banks and launder drug traffickers’ profits to [...]

Winel Castro Molina, I-4 rapist back in court today.

Winel Castro Molina takes a trip back to court today to face the judge. A decision will be made regarding his release from jail on $25,000 bond for raping a woman he pretended to be a good Samaritan with. Winel Castro Molina was released with no preconditions and no tracking device. Basically, he is a [...]

Teenage Robbers of 7-11, age 17 and 15 are busted

ORLANDO, Fla. — A standoff between Orlando police and a robbery suspect ended early Tuesday morning. The incident along Big Horn Street in Tangelo Park ended safely when police arrested the 15-year-old suspect and a 17-year-old was also taken into custody. Authorities said the two teenagers robbed a 7-Eleven on North Mills Avenue [...]

Roy Kronk, Jose Baez, Casey Anthony dream team and more…What’s new with the case.

ORLANDO, Fla. — Andrea Lyon is on Casey Anthony’s defense dream team and she’s supposed to be the expert on the death penalty. Eyewitness News obtained an audio recording of Andrea Lyon bashing judges, female prosecutors, victim’s advocates and even calling jurors “killers.” Lyon made the comments at a conference in Orlando (Listen: part 1 [...]