November 5, 2015

LEHIGH ACRES, Fla. –  A Lee County mother and father are facing child neglect charges, accused of neglecting their 15-month-old daughter so badly she nearly died. Deputies arrested Nicole Bement, 23, and Joseph Rios, 23, of Lehigh Acres Wednesday after receiving disturbing information from doctors. According to an arrest report, Bement brought her daughter to […]

WASHINGTON (AP) – The House overwhelmingly backed a $607 billion defense bill that would bar President Barack Obama from moving Guantanamo Bay detainees to U.S. prisons, setting up a showdown with Congress over his 2008 campaign pledge to close the Cuban facility. The long-running dispute heated up on Capitol Hill on Thursday just hours after […]

SOMERSWORTH, N.H. (AP) – There’s been a little more shouting this week from Jeb Bush, and a little more salty language, too, as the Republican candidate for president tries to reboot a campaign that’s fallen from front-running to middle of the pack. But what hasn’t changed is the message. And, Bush says, it won’t. In […]

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) – Authorities in Jacksonville have recovered the body of a 17-year-old boy who they say fell from a boat in the St. Johns River while he was fishing with his uncle. Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department spokesman Tom Francis tells local media that Adam Rosier Jr. became entangled in a casting net […]

NEW YORK (AP) – A former Goldman Sachs employee pleaded guilty Thursday to obtaining confidential information from a one-time co-worker at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and distributing it to others at the investment bank. Rohit Bansal entered the plea in Manhattan federal court to a misdemeanor theft of information charge one day […]

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) – Former Penn State assistant coach Jerry Sandusky’s request for information about a grand jury that investigated him was turned down Thursday after Pennsylvania’s top prosecutor testified she had no knowledge of improper leaks in the case. Judge John Cleland announced the ruling hours after he conducted a closed-door hearing to question […]

NAPLES, Fla. – The Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) will spend more than $5 million to pay for new fences along part of Alligator Alley in an effort to protect panthers and drivers. Since 2004, drivers have hit and killed 14 panthers on a 9-mile stretch of the alley in Collier County. “We think this is […]

LEE COUNTY, Fla.- Approximately 10,000 untested rape kits are sitting in evidence rooms across the state, leaving victims with no justice. Last August, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) asked law enforcement agencies across the state to report the numbers of untested rape kits. Some of those kits could go back decades. Around 700 kits […]

FORT MYERS, Fla.- Jayce Lopez is just 4 weeks old, but he already smiles from ear to ear. Those smiles mean the world to his mother, Melissa Bustos, who was in pure panic the day he was born. “I didn’t even get to see him, hold him, or anything. They just took him.” Jayce was born with total […]