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Breaking: Frightening Daytona crash leaves at least 11 fans injured [w/video]

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By Steven J. Ewing

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A truly horrifying crash at Saturday’s Daytona race has left at least 11 NASCAR fans injured. According to the Associated Press, large chunks of debris landed in the grandstands after a car flew into the fence during a multi-car crash just before the final lap of the race.

The awful mess started when Regan Smith‘s car was turned sideways as he was coming into the checkered flag. This caused many other cars to crash, sending Kyle Larson’s No. 32 car into the fence that separates the track from the grandstands. The car itself was damaged quite badly, the entire front end torn off and the burning engine wedged in a hole in the fence.

Driver Tony Stewart slid past the wreckage to take the win at the Nationwide Series race, but skipped the usual post-victory celebration. “As much as we want to celebrate right now and as much as this is a big deal to us, I’m more worried about the drivers and the fans that are in the stands right now because that was … I could see it all in my mirror, and it didn’t look good from where I was at,” Stewart told a reporter.

A spokesperson from Volusia County told the Associated Press that six people with serious injuries were taken by ambulance to Halifax Health Medical Center in Daytona Beach, saying that those victims “met the condition of trauma patients.” No official word has been given on the condition of other victims, nor has a final injury count been released.

This tragic event will no doubt put a dark cloud over Sunday’s Daytona 500 race. Scroll down to see a video of the horrific crash.

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Florida teachers among 50 charged in online child-sex sting

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Two teachers and two other school employees were among 50 people arrested as part of an online child-sex sting in central Florida, MyFoxOrlando.com reports.

“Operation Cardea” targeted people who use the Internet to sexually exploit children, the Seminole County Sheriff’s Office said, and the suspects were arrested over the past week, including four men arrested late Sunday night.

The list of those arrested includes two local school teachers and two other employees at local schools.

Jorge Daniel Ferreira, a science teacher at Ocoee Middle School, was one of those arrested. Orange County Schools officials tell Fox 35 that Ferreira has been with the school district since 2002 and passed a Florida Department of Law Enforcement background check when he was hired.

Also arrested were David Miller, a translator with Orange County Schools; Duncan St. Gelais, a teacher at New Smyrna Beach High School in Volusia County; and Anthony Wilks, a janitor with Seminole County Schools.

Investigators posed online as teens or parents and had communications with the suspects. Several suspects sent photos of a sexual nature. Detectives say all 50 men traveled to a home in Seminole County thinking they were going to have sex with teens between the ages of 11 and 15.

All suspects will be charged with traveling to meet a minor for sex and soliciting a minor for sex.

The Seminole County Sheriff’s Office used 200 investigators and worked with more than a dozen law enforcement agencies, including the FBI and FDLE, to make the arrests.

“Operation Cardea” was named after a Roman goddess who protected homes.

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Florida woman, 2 others arrested in stun gun, dragging assault of ex-husband

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A Florida woman, her brother and another accomplice allegedly shot her ex-husband with a stun gun, held him at gun point, beat him and used a pickup truck to drag him a half-mile down a dirt road, MyFoxOrlando.com reported.

The victim, Robert Hall, managed to get to a nearby home and asked for help. He told police Tuesday night that the three tried to kill him.

Hall was badly injured in the attack, the report said. He suffered a broken pelvis, broken facial bones and bleeding on his brain.

“There was an older guy with a rope around his neck and his underwear ripped from where he was drug,” said Tyler Shevelan, the neighbor. “He was bleeding from the backside, face, mouth, everywhere you can think of.”

Jeanette Morris, 61, and her brother, Harold Anderson, 63, face attempted murder and aggravated assault charges for a “brutal attack” on Hall, Volusia County investigators said.

A third accomplice, Joan Hobart, 46, of New Smyrna Beach, was found in Port Orange and booked on the same charges.

Hall was tossed in the bed of the truck, and when the beaten and bloody man heard talk of burying his body, he jumped from the moving truck and ran to a nearby house for help, according to investigators.

Morris denied to deputies that anything had happened. Deputies say when they questioned Anderson, his right hand was bloody and swollen, and he didn’t seem remorseful. They say he told them it wouldn’t have bothered him if the victim had died and that the only thing he regretted was not being there to see him dragged behind the truck.

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