December 26, 2014

LEE COUNTY, Fla. – Urgent care centers and emergency rooms are inundated with patients sick. A nurse supervisor at Lee Memorial Convenient Care told WINK News people wait until after the holiday to go to the doctor. Frank Garcia told WINK News he arrived at the urgent care Friday at 10:45 a.m. and was not […]

CLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) – Authorities say the body of a missing cruise ship worker has washed up on Clearwater Beach. Police say 27-year-old Cliford B. Minej was found dead Friday morning. The Thane, India, man had worked on a Holland America Line cruise ship that came to port in Tampa on Sunday. Police believe Minej […]

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – Sony’s PlayStation network remains offline in an outage that began as video game players unwrapped new consoles on Christmas. Microsoft’s Xbox Live service, which had also gone down, is back online but the company says some applications aren’t fully functioning. A group calling itself Lizard Squad claimed responsibility on Twitter for […]

PHILADELPHIA (AP) – The transit police officers who helped deliver a Christmas baby on a subway train reunited with the newborn boy and his parents Friday morning, trading the chaos of the dingy rail car where they first met for the comfort of a hospital room. Sgt. Daniel Caban and Officer Darrell James – who […]

CINCINNATI (AP) – Three boys who spent the night with their grandmother so she wouldn’t be alone on Christmas died with her Friday morning as a fire engulfed her home, authorities said. Fayette County coroner Dr. Dennis Mesker said the badly burned bodies were turned over to the Montgomery County coroner’s office for autopsies and […]

WASHINGTON (AP) – The U.S. economy flexed its old muscles in 2014. More than five years removed from the Great Recession, worries had taken hold at the start of the year that perhaps the world’s largest economy had slid into a semi-permanent funk. But consumers, businesses and investors, after enduring a brutal winter, showed renewed […]

LEE COUNTY, Fla.- Funeral services will be held Saturday for Charles Kondek, the Tarpon Springs officer fatally shot in the line of duty. The service will be held in Hillsborough County and many officers and deputies from Southwest Florida will be attending to pay their respects. “A lot of us don’t know each other but […]

CAPE CORAL, Fla.- The day after Christmas is also a busy time — for thieves. What looks like trash to you, can look like a “welcome” sign to thieves and crooks. The holidays are over and as people kick their empty gift boxes to the curb, criminals take to the streets. “What we don’t want […]