High School football preseason games

Kick-Off Classic Games High School Football Scores Port Charlotte 34 Victory Christian Acadmey 7 Community School of Naples 50 Lipson Hillel Community 14 Bishop Verot High School 43 Estero High School 32 Okeechobee High School 38 LaBelle High School 7 South Fort Myers High School 28 North Fort Myers High School 18 Lely High School […]

EXCLUSIVE: Charlotte County man wrongfully jailed for days

PUNTA GORDA, Fla. – Angry and demanding justice, John Andrews is speaking exclusively to WINK News about his wrongful arrest. “This is not just for my behalf, this is for everybody else that this could happen to, because it’s obviously devastating,” Andrews told WINK News Friday. Andrews, 24, says he was at his brother’s house in […]

Golden Gate mailboxes raided and checks stolen

GOLDEN GATE, Fla.- Neighbors say their mailboxes are getting raided and mail stolen. It’s happening on 5th Avenue Northwest and at least five mailboxes have been hit multiple times. “They are helping themselves to the mail, opening it and throwing it on the ground,” says one neighbor who didn’t want to share her name. Neighbors […]

Police: Veteran shoots NYC security guard, then himself

NEW YORK (AP) – An armed veteran slipped through a side door of a federal building on Friday and shot a security guard in the head, killing him, before fatally shooting himself, police said. Detectives were investigating what prompted the shooting of FJC Security Services guard Idrissa Camara, who was supposed to have gotten off […]

Woman rescued near Pine Island after hours in the water

BOCA GRANDE, Fla.,- A woman had to be rescued after taking a swim off her boat, she then got swept away by the current. It happened near Jug Creek Shoal off Bokeelia. A day took an unexpected turn for a couple while out on their boat. A woman was swept away after she jumped in […]

Fort Myers athletes suspended from football indefinitely

LEE COUNTY, Fla.- The players involved in a fight that broke out during a preseason football game have been suspended indefinitely. The game was between North Fort Myers and South Fort Myers high schools. North Fort Myers star running back Zaquandre White started throwing punches after a South Fort Myers player tackled him out of […]

Gov. Rick Scott talks job growth at Naples manufacturing company

NAPLES, Fla. – Governor Rick Scott paid a visit to Naples on Friday to tour a growing manufacturing company and to talk about the job market across the state. The unemployment rate is at 5.4%–the lowest it’s been in seven years. More than 917,000 jobs have opened up in Florida in nearly five years. Naples […]

Marco kids outsmart a potential kidnapper after being offered “free candy”

MARCO ISLAND, Fla.- Children ran after a man in a car pulled over to offer them free candy. The kids say they were confronted by three men inside of a Mercedes; one offered them free candy. Police say the attempted kidnapping happened around 7:30 p.m. on Delbrook Way on Marco Island. The kids were playing […]

Emails say Immokalee Fire Chief’s Truck hit a patient

IMMOKALEE, Fla.- Internal e-mails from Collier EMS say a patient on the ground was run over by the Immokalee Fire Chief’s truck. There were a total of 5 accounts written about what happened on August 14th, 2015 at 12:42pm. The crews were working a single car accident along SR 82 and Corkscrew. There were five […]