About 100 people were displaced after a fire broke out at a Miami Beach hostel Monday night, officials say.
Firefighters were called out to the South Beach Rooms and Hostel at 236 Ninth St around 5:15 p.m., according to reporting from The Miami Herald. The fire was contained to the second floor and was extinguished.
No injuries were reported, and the cause of the fire remains under investigation.
Investigators have not released what they believe to be the likely cause of a Cutler Bay house fire that killed at least one person and left another hospitalized Friday.
Fire officials were called out to the blaze around 5:50 a.m. for a home on the 9700 block of Montego Bay Drive. When they arrived, they found heavy smoke coming from all sides of the home and rescued at least one person from inside, according to reporting from The Miami Herald. One other person self-evacuated.
Emergency responders took both people to the hospital where one of them was pronounced dead. As of Friday afternoon, the condition of the survivor had not been released.
A Florida movie theater’s armed guard was recently sentenced to 15 years in prison after being found guilty of raping a girl, 15.
Augusta Williams, 34, was convicted of lewd or lascivious battery on a child aged 12 to 16, the State Attorney’s Office for the Fifth Judicial Circuit announced Monday.
The incident happened on Jan. 14, 2023, when the teen was at the movies in Ocala with a group of friends, according to reporting from The Miami Herald. The teen’s friends were picked up by a grandparent who refused to take the minor home. The teen could not reach a parent and Williams, an armed security guard at the theater, allegedly offered to watch over the minor.
A sixth grader who was it by a car while walking away from her school bus died Thursday from her injuries, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.
The 11-year-old girl was dropped off by her school bus around 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday afternoon in Brooksville, a city in Hernando County about 50 miles north of Tampa, when a woman, 65, in a Toyota Corolla hit her. The child was walking north along the unpaved and unmarked road at the time of the crash, according to reporting from the Miami Herald. It was not immediately clear if the woman was speeding.
The child was taken to a local hospital with serious injuries. She died Thursday.
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