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Daytona Bike Week fatalities; Four bikers in Central Florida have died in the first weekend of the big motorcycle rally

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DAYTONA BEACH,  Fla. -- Five motorcycle riders have died in four different crashes around Central Florida since Saturday night, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.

Daytona Beach cops: Man hospitalized in stable condition with gunshot wound in the chest during apparent robbery early Sunday morning at Bike Week

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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- One man is in stable condition at a local hospital and another is detained by the Daytona Beach Police Department after cops responded to the shooting off of Main Street on the first Sunday of Bike Week 2022, a Daytona Beach police spokesman said.

26. Ex-Sanford Mayor Jeff Triplett, who was at the helm during the Trayvon Martin homicide, dies of lung cancer at 52

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SANFORD, Fla. -- Jeff Triplett, the former Sanford mayor who led the city through the Trayvon Martin-George Zimmerman crisis more than eight years ago, died of lung cancer on Feb. 27, 202, at the age of 52 - a shocking breaking news development considering few people even knew he had been sick.

27. Daytona Beach cops: Speeding Ormond motorist killed, 5 firefighters injured in traffic crash between Pontiac & fire truck during Bike Week

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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- A 52-year-old Ormond Beach woman was killed and five City of Daytona Beach firefighters were hurt following a traffic crash between her car, a Pontiac, and a fire truck near Halifax Health Medical Center on the first Saturday of Bike Week 2021, though no motorcycles were involved.

Sunny skies through the weekend at the World's Most Famous Beach in Daytona

Create: Fri, 03/04/2022 - 17:15
Author: Sera King
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- It's picture-perfect weather through the weekend at the World's Most Famous Beach in Daytona with plenty of sunshine and seasonably warm temps in the high 70s. Just what the doctor ordered.

Florida Highway Patrol: I-95 reopened near Edgewater with 3 dead from multiple crashes involving 17 vehicles due to dense fog & smoke from controlled burn

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EDGEWATER, Fla. -- Dense fog and thick black smoke from a controlled burn were major causes of a horrific series of crashes overnight Thursday on both sides of I-95 between Edgewater and New Smyrna Beach resulting in three fatalities and numerous injuries, the Florida Highway Patrol said.

Orange County Sheriff's Office PIO in Orlando: Off-duty deputy arrested over the weekend on DUI charge by West Melbourne cops; late father was an OCSO detective who died in the line of duty

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ORLANDO. Fla. -- A 29-year-old Orange County Sheriff's deputy arrested on a DUI charge over the weekend in Brevard County has been relieved of all law enforcement duties and reassigned to administrative duties while the criminal case is underway, an Orland0-based PIO with the OCSO confirmed.

Florida Highway patrol: Driver charged with 5 counts of vehicular homicide in 2021 crash in greater Orlando that killed 5 - 3 of the dead small children

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ORLANDO, Fla. -- Florida Highway Patrol traffic homicide investigators have arrested 20-year-old Osbaldo Patino Vazquez of Ocoee on five counts of vehicular homicide following a lengthy investigation into a fatal crash that occurred on March 11, 2021, at Claracona Ocoee Road and Gaymar Drive.