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DAYTONA BEACH Interstate 95 was closed on the southbound side early Saturday morning amid a bloody scene involving a pedestrian on the highway that apparently was struck by multiple vehicles, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.
Details of the incident aren t yet clear and crash investigators are still working to gather information from witnesses, said Lt. Kim Montes, FHP spokeswoman. The name of the pedestrian who was hit was not available. What we now know is that just before 6 a.m., a driver reported a pedestrian on I-95 at (mile marker) 263, Montes said. A woman called in to say she had struck a person.
YOUTH SOFTBALL
Lakeshore Tribe continues World Series play: The Lakeshore Tribe, a local club from Robbertsdale, has two teams playing in the Babe Ruth Softball World Series, which is taking place in Jensen Beach/Stuart, Florida. The 14U team is 1-5 after a 5-2 loss to South Shore on Saturday morning. The Tribe played a game later in the day. They will play Sunday against an undetermined opponent. 18U team is 0-5 after Saturday s 11-1 loss to the MSA Ospreys. Lakeshore plays twice Sunday, including a 9 a.m. game against JPRD West.
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Former Notre Dame player dies in shooting: A former St. Louis high school basketball star who played briefly for Notre Dame and Missouri in college was shot and killed in north St. Louis County, police said. Cameron Biedscheid, 27, was killed Friday on the block where he lived. Police did not indicated whether they have any suspects in the shooting. Biedscheid spent his freshman college season at Notre Dame, averaging 6.2 points and 1.4
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That’s 20 more patients than the hospital system had on Tuesday evening. But it still hasn’t reached the hospital system’s peak in January, when it reported around 900 patients in a single day.
“Our numbers continue to rise,” said Dr. Neil Finkler, chief clinical officer for AdventHealth’s Central Florida Division in a media briefing Thursday morning. “The rate of the increase is somewhat concerning. We are now seeing about the fastest rate of increase that we have seen throughout the course of the pandemic.”
The surge has caused AdventHealth to defer scheduling new elective surgeries that involve overnight stays, requiring masks in all areas of all of its facilities and limiting visitors.