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A 70-year-old man piloting a twin-engine Cessna was injured Friday evening when his plane crashed near Witham Field in Stuart, authorities said.
The crash happened around 5:30 p.m. in a grassy area along the 1000 block of Southeast Federal Highway near Southeast Tressler Avenue, said Officer Brian Bossio, city police spokesman.
Police identified the pilot late Friday as Marlin Moudy, a native of Wyoming.
Moudy was trying to land at Witham Field, which lies just southeast of the crash site. He avoided hitting several homes as his plane was crashing, authorities said.
Two children were taken to the hospital Friday after a wreck involving a sport-utility vehicle and a school bus in Greenacres. The crash happened just before 8 a.m. at the intersection of Lake Worth Road and 57th Avenue. All roads are back open after earlier closures. One child, who was in the SUV, was taken to Delray Community Hospital by Trauma Hawk for precautionary reasons, according to Lt. Brady Myers with the Greenacres Department of Safety. A second child, who was on the school bus, was taken to Palms West Hospital. Neither child had life-threatening injuries, said Myers.
Michael Lohan says he’s sticking by his fiancé Kate Major after another blowout fight that ended with her arrest for drunk driving and domestic battery Thursday night.
Lindsay Lohan’s dad called 911 from the Boca Raton residence he shares with Major and their 13-month-old son to say she scratched his face then fled in her car while “wasted” on alcohol and pills.
Palm Beach County Sheriff's deputies arrested a man suspected of a hit and run crash outside of Igot's bar in Lake Worth Tuesday.
When deputies approached the man and asked him about the crash, he said he, "heard a loud bang but wasn't sure what it was."
According to the sheriff's office, deputies were dispatched to 702 Lake Avenue in reference to a hit and run crash around 1 a.m.
Deputies spotted a vehicle matching the suspect's car speeding away from the location. A witness told deputies that the car crashed into a parked car at 215 Lakeside Drive.
A small plane crashed Tuesday morning at the Lantana Airport after having problems with its landing gear, according to officials.
At 9:54 a.m. rescue crews responded to the scene and found a twin engine Cessna had landed without its gear down.
The aircraft was on the runway on its belly with two occupants inside.
Witnesses say they saw the aircraft coming into the runway faster than normal.
A 7-year-old boy was flown to a trauma center Monday afternoon after being injured in an all-terrain vehicle rollover in Loxahatchee, said a spokesman for Palm Beach County Fire Rescue. The child was flown by Trauma Hawk to St. Mary’s Medical Center, Borroto said. The accident happened a few minutes before 6 p.m. on the 17,700 block of 61st Place North.
The Florida Highway Patrol is looking for a car involved in a fatal crash Saturday morning north of the city limits. A pedestrian was killed around 9 a.m. in the crash at U.S. Route 441 and County Road 68, near Okeechobee Golf & Country Club, said a FHP spokesman. The car is a compact vehicle that was thought to be traveling southbound on U.S. 441. It has damage to its right front side and to its right front amber light. Its right side mirror also is missing, Fletcher said. FHP did not have information on the make, model or color of the vehicle.
Investigators say the man behind the wheel of a monster-sized rolling crane took the right turn from Palm Beach’s post-card-perfect Royal Palm Way and headed in Worth Avenue’s direction not knowing that he had struck a pedestrian as he did it.
The pedestrian’s body got caught in the crane’s second set of front tires and dragged half a block. Police identified the pedestrian as James Brennan, 68, of West Palm Beach.