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The five people killed in a small plane crash in Lake Okeechobee included the pilot and four attorneys with the Peterson Bernard law firm in Palm Beach County, according to the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office. They were identified Saturday as commercial pilot Eduardo Mulet, 45, of West Palm Beach; Eric A. Peterson, 73, of Lighthouse Point; Matthew Fiorello, 36, of Palm Beach Gardens; Heather Bridwell, 43, of Jupiter; and Edwin Mortell III, 54, of Stuart. The twin-engine Piper aircraft,... Read More

Five people died when a small plane crashed into Lake Okeechobee Friday afternoon, authorities said. At 3:26 p.m. Friday, the small plane crashed into the lake about 400 yards from shore a little north of Pahokee Airport, said Teri Barbera, spokeswoman for the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office. Divers from Palm Beach County Fire Rescue found the five bodies when they searched the aircraft fuselage in the water, she said. On Saturday afternoon, PBSO identified the victims as Eduardo Mulet,... Read More

A flight to Fort Lauderdale from Montreal with 189 people aboard was forced to make an emergency landing in Newark, N.J., Saturday morning after reports of smoke inside the aircraft, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. The flight, Air Transat 942, left Montreal at 7:13 a.m. and landed at Newark’s Liberty International at 8:28 a.m., according to the FlightAware website. Initial reports say that passengers on the Boeing 737-800 evacuated using emergency slides. While it is... Read More

It’s time to spring forward again, as the country makes the switch to daylight saving time. Like those in almost all other states, residents in Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas and Missouri will trade an hour of sleep starting Sunday morning for an extra hour of sunlight in the evening. The government expanded daylight saving time in 2007 in an effort to save energy. It now begins on the second Sunday in March and continues until the first Sunday in November. The official change occurs at 2... Read More

Hollywood police busted a couple on Thursday who were selling heroin and other drugs out of their home near an elementary school, an arrest report said. The west Hollywood house where Adina Spry, a 33-year-old Miami-Dade corrections officer, and her 35-year-old boyfriend Marcus Wright, aka Pop, lived on 71st Avenue was littered with large quantities of narcotics when police served a search warrant Thursday morning, according to the report. Investigators confiscated nearly 2 1/2 ounces of... Read More

Five people died when a small plane crashed into Lake Okeechobee Friday afternoon, authorities said. At 3:26 p.m. Friday, the small plane crashed into the lake about 400 yards from shore a little north of Pahokee Airport, said Teri Barbera, spokeswoman for the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office. Rescue divers searched the lake after a person had been seen swimming away from the wreckage in the water, Barbera said. Divers from Palm Beach County Fire Rescue found the five bodies when they... Read More

What do you do if your partner is snoring too loudly? Hopefully, not what a 47-year-old Florida woman is accused of doing. Lorie Morin, of Cocoa, grabbed a shotgun and fired at her boyfriend, injuring him, according to WFLA.com. And now she faces charges of attempted murder and aggravated battery. Her boyfriend, who has not been identified, is still recovering from his injuries in a local hospital, clickorlando.com reports. Brevard County deputies said the shooting happened Wednesday night... Read More

The Broward Sheriff’s Office has agreed to pay $390,000 to a deputy who complained about the unnecessary use of force by Fort Lauderdale police in the 2013 arrest of murder suspect Walter Hart. Deputy Jeffrey Kogan, an 18-year veteran of the sheriff’s office, continues to work with the agency out of Pompano Beach. The settlement represents attorney fees plus what Kogan would have earned on the job had he been promoted four years ago. According to his attorney, Tonja Haddad Coleman, Kogan... Read More

St. Patrick’s Day festivities kicked off in Hollywood on Sunday, March 10, with a parade and festival.  More cities will celebrate next weekend. West Palm Beach will party over three days, March 15-17. Delray Beach trims it to two days, March 15-16. And Fort Lauderdale gets the job done on March 16 with a parade. ... Read More

Actor Jan Michael Vincent, known for starring in the television series “Airwolf,” has died. He was 73. A death certificate shows that Vincent died of cardiac arrest on Feb. 10, 2019, in an Asheville, North Carolina, hospital. The certificate signed by a doctor says he died of natural causes and no autopsy was performed. “Airwolf” was a 1980s television series featuring crime-fighters in an advanced helicopter. Vincent played pilot Stringfellow Hawke. He was also... Read More