November 8, 2015

FORT MYERS, Fla. – Hundreds of people packed inside the First United Methodist Church in Downtown Fort Myers Sunday evening as a way to grieve and mourn the senseless killings that have recently taken place, however city leaders are also seeing it as another step to stop the violence. Mayor Randy Henderson led the vigil […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) – A bright, colorful light that streaked across the California sky, startling residents and leading to a flurry of calls to law enforcement, turned out to be an unarmed missile test-fired from a Navy submarine off the coast Saturday evening, officials said. Kevin Stack was walking to dinner with his young son […]

NAPLES, Fla. – A group of veterans is getting a VIP tour of Southwest Florida. The Waterfront Warriors South organization is hosting 16 wounded, ill and injured veterans and their family members from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. The group of 34 flew into RSW Sunday and will be visiting the area through Veteran’s […]

NAPLES, Fla. (AP) – State officials are spending more than $5 million on a fencing project designed to keep panthers and other large animals off Alligator Alley. The Florida Department of Transportation will start construction later this year on a project that includes 18 miles of 10-foot fencing and work on three animal underpasses east […]

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Climate change could push more than 100 million people into extreme poverty by 2030 by disrupting agriculture and fueling the spread of malaria and other diseases, the World Bank said in a report Sunday. Released just weeks ahead of a U.N. climate summit in Paris, the report highlighted how the impact of […]

FORT MYERS, Fla. – Hundreds of athletes participated in the 3rd annual Fort Myers Marathon on Sunday morning. The event first came to Southwest Florida in 2012, and has been held downtown for the last two year. Runners had to make their way over the Edison and 41 bridges, not just once but multiple times. “I was a […]

BONITA SPRINGS, Fla – Power was restored to all 750 homes on Bonita Beach Road late Sunday afternoon after a transformer caught on fire. Bonita Springs Fire and Rescue said it happened around 5 a.m. near the intersection of Bonita Beach Road and Arroyal Road. Crews worked throughout the day to restore power to the homes and […]

FORT MYERS, Fla – A man is dead after a shooting at East Point Place Saturday night. Fort Myers police were called to the apartments on Dale Street just before 7 p.m. When officers arrived, they found a male who was shot. The victim died at the scene. “The incident is described as isolated and community members are […]

SHANGHAI (AP) — Russell Knox raised both arms in the air, closed his eyes and tilted his head toward the heavens as if he couldn’t believe what he had just done. Dating to when the World Golf Championship began in 1999, no one had ever won in his debut. Knox wasn’t even eligible for the […]

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A North Carolina man suspected in a Southern crime spree that included a double slaying is dead after a warrant for a hitchhiker he and his girlfriend picked up led police to the motel where they were holed up in suburban Philadelphia. The sheriff’s office in Davidson County, North Carolina, identified the […]