First meeting for Lee commissioners since Manning’s DUI arrest
FORT MYERS, Fla. The Board of Lee County Commissioners met Monday for the first time since one of their own was arrested for a DUI crash. John Manning, of District 1, is accused of driving under the...
View ArticleFrontier to offer new nonstop flights out of RSW
SOUTH FORT MYERS, Fla. Travelers from New York and Colorado can soon come to the City of Palms for a cheaper fare. Frontier Airlines will begin nonstop service flights Oct. 5 for Southwest Florida...
View ArticleLee County School board approves post-Irma schedule
FORT MYERS, Fla. Lee County students missed two weeks of school due to Hurricane Irma, and the changes for the remainder of the school year were allocated Tuesday. The Lee County School Board made the...
View ArticleSan Carlos Park man enters plea in deadly wrong-way crash
CORRECTION: The state attorney’s office sent the following statement to clarify an earlier version of this story. Canfield entered a plea but sentencing is scheduled for November 13th at 1:30 p.m. FORT...
View ArticleFGCU reassigns provost who vied for president’s job
FORT MYERS, Fla. Dr. Ron Toll is out as Florida Gulf Coast University provost and vice president of academic affairs. University President Michael A. Martin sent Toll a letter dated Monday informing...
View ArticleIrma prompts early arrival for many SWFL snowbirds
FORT MYERS, Fla. Hurricane Irma could be the cause of an early season in Southwest Florida. Snowbirds are flocking to the area to check on the damage the storm left behind, and many have decided to...
View ArticleIsland Park neighbors seek answers, solutions for severe flooding
FORT MYERS, Fla. Residents from Island Park voiced their concerns and frustrations Tuesday at the Lee County Commissioners meeting after heavy rain and storms caused severe flooding.
View ArticleFGCU students helping Irma evacuees still in shelters
FORT MYERS, Fla. There are still hundreds of people left in Hurricane Irma shelters across Southwest Florida shelters, according to the American Red Cross. Florida Gulf Coast University students are...
View ArticleLee County attorney mulls seawall repair program
FORT MYERS, Fla. The Lee County attorney is reviewing and analyzing programs in which homeowners will no longer have to pay out of pocket for seawall damages.
View ArticleTrash collection delayed in Cape Coral
CAPE CORAL, Fla. It’s not just debris lining the roads of Cape Coral. Trash pickup was scheduled to resume just days after Hurricane Irma, but bins are overflowing with foul-smelling garbage. Some...
View ArticleIsland Park residents voice flooding concerns, want changes
SOUTH FORT MYERS, Fla. Island Park residents are fed up with flooding. Area residents were plagued by rain and floodwaters in August, and again weeks later with Hurricane Irma. Members of the community...
View ArticleTeen wounded in Cape Coral drive-by shooting
CAPE CORAL, Fla. A Cape Coral man was found lying on a sidewalk with a gunshot wound Tuesday night according to Cape Coral police. Sammie J. Young, 18, told police he and a friend were walking...
View ArticleSinkhole to keep Winkler Road closed until next week
SOUTH FORT MYERS, Fla. A sinkhole is expected to keep a stretch of Winkler Road closed until next week. The sinkhole first opened up last week on the road between College Parkway and McGregor...
View ArticleCape pizzeria owner facing child abuse, battery charges
CAPE CORAL, Fla. A 61-year-old man accused of inappropriately touching two young employees was arrested Tuesday, the Cape Coral Police Department said. Pizza Depot owner Harry Kaltsounis, of Cape...
View ArticleBoil water notice lifted for parts of Fort Myers
FORT MYERS, Fla. A boil water notice has been rescinded for four Fort Myers neighborhoods. The advisory issued Monday covered the Pelican Preserve, Plantation Somerset, Bridgetown at The Plantation,...
View ArticleLas Vegas gunman altered guns to work like fully automatic weapons
FORT MYERS, Fla. The gunman behind the deadliest shooting in U.S. history used a method called bump stock to unleash hundreds of rounds of gunfire into a crowd of 22,000 concertgoers. Stephen Paddock,...
View ArticleVideo leads to help — and potatoes — for Fort Myers woman
FORT MYERS, Fla. A viral video helped a woman get money to fix her roof after Hurricane Irma — and a heap of the potatoes she loves. Fort Myers resident Ethel Strauss will go on and on about how much...
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Irma delays testing on Dunbar toxic sludge site
FORT MYERS, Fla. The Dunbar community is still waiting for answers about a former toxic dump site in the neighborhood. Preliminary testing took place in August on the area where Arsenic was discovered...
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Candidates face off for position as mayor of Cape Coral
CAPE CORAL, Fla. Joe Coviello and Michael Hollow will square off to be the next mayor of Cape Coral. Both candidates got the highest percentages of votes in Tuesday’s primary election. Michael Hollow...
View ArticleHarry Chapin Food Bank kicks off fundraising campaign to raise $500K
LEHIGH ACRES, Fla. The Harry Chapin Food Bank is working to raise $500,000 through its Recover, Rebuild and Restore campaign by Nov. 1 to help Southwest Florida residents in the wake of Hurricane Irma....
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