Parkland Shooter Sentenced, Voters Vexed, Bigotry Flares: FL Top News

FLORIDA — It proved to be a week of deadly crashes in Florida including a collision involving a pickup truck that struck three girls in Bradenton; a father struck by three vehicles on Interstate 75 as his son watched in horror; and a crash on Interstate 4 killed a 1-year-old baby and a 12-year-old girl.

See these stories and more from this week on Florida Patch sites.

• Pinellas County Man Tried To Hire Hitman To Take Out Witnesses: FBI
• Man In Skull Mask Shoots Mother In Front Of 2 Young Children In Pasco
• 'You Are A Monster': Families Confront Parkland School Shooter
• Tampa Airport Celebrates Virgin Atlantic's Non-Stop Flight To London
• Man Tried To Defraud Dick Vitale, Realtor, Luxury Car Dealer: Sheriff
• Kanye’s Bigotry ‘Emboldens Other Antisemites’: FL Holocaust Museum
• Prostituting 16-Year-Old Girl Leads To Charges Against Oldsmar Man
• 3 Girls Hit By Pick-Up Truck In Bradenton: FL Highway Patrol
• Person Dies, Dog Missing When Fire Tears Through Riverview Mobile Home
• Elderly Man Critically Wounded After Man Breaks Into His Valrico Home
• Children Overdosed On Cannabis Edibles Bought From Miami Woman: Police
• 4-Vehicle Pileup On I-75 at U.S. 301 Kills Brandon Man
• Father Struck By 3 Vehicles Trying To Cross I-75 While Son Looked On
• 3 Pinellas Drug Dealers Selling Out Of Motel Get Prison Sentences
• Tampa Couple Convicted In Multimillion-Dollar Money Laundering Scheme
• Vote Or Don't Vote? Court Action On Referendum Confounds Voters
• Woman Killed When Caught In Crossfire Of Shooting On Tampa Streets
• Lost, Disoriented Hiker In Little Manatee State Park Airlifted Out
• Man Gave LSD To 11-Year-Old Girl: Sarasota County Sheriff's Office
• Manatee Commissioner Settles FL Ethics Charges For COVID Vaccine Event
• Baby, 12-Year-Old Girl Die In 3-Vehicle Pileup In Plant City
• Paramotor Pilot Rescues Woman Clinging To Car In South FL Canal: Watch
• Clearwater Man Among Cybercriminals Accused Of Stealing Millions
• 58 Sex Offenders Arrested For Violating Probation On Halloween
• Bloomingdale High School Student Killed In Shooting At Halloween Party
• 14 Sex Offenders, Predators Arrested In Polk County On Halloween
• Man Held Family Captive For 2 Days Before Gandy Blvd. Stand-Off: SPD
• Fatal Shooting In Brandon Leads To Arrest Of 16-Year-Old
• Skeletal Remains Found On Empty Lot On West Emily Street In Tampa
• Making Counterfeit Bills Leads To Conviction Of Spring Hill Man
• Friends To Remember Clearwater Beach Man Same Day Arrest Announced
• Teen Arrested In Armed Robbery, Shooting Of Dachshund In Tampa

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