LEE COUNTY, Fla. - The majority of the Lee County School Board will change this week.Three new school board members will be sworn into office on Tuesday.The new school board ..
CHARLOTTE COUNTY, Fla. - The Charlotte County Sheriff’s Office received a call at 10:56 a.m. this morning concerning a body floating face down in a canal behind a roofing bus..
FORT MYERS, Fla. - On Tuesday, November 16, 2010 the Fort Myers Police Department’s “Do The Right Thing” program will honor six children for their good deeds. Chi..
MARATHON, Fla. (AP) - An off duty Coral Gables police officer has been charged after getting into a fight with a hotel employee in the Florida Keys. According to an arrest warrant ..
CLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) - Two teenage brothers thwarted a would-be robber by wrestling a gun from him and locking him inside a southwest Florida convenience store. According to a pol..
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - A DUI stop in southwest Florida has led authorities to a suspect wanted for the 2003 shooting death of a 23-year-old Ohio man. Hillsborough County Deputy Felix M..
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - The federal Environmental Protection Agency for the first time has set water pollution standards for a state. The Florida rules unveiled Monday are part of..
OCALA, Fla. (AP) - Attorneys for Wesley Snipes will try to convince a central Florida judge the actor deserves a new trial arguing the jury was biased. A hearing was scheduled Mond..
NAPLES, Fla. (AP) - A former Collier County jail inmate whose baby died while she was behind bars is suing the jail's medical provider and the sheriff. Joan Laurel Small, now known..
KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) There are 659 fewer Indo-Pacific red lionfish occupying the waters of the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. The final in a series lionfish derbies was hel..
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - Thousands of people turned out for a celebration of the Navy's newest destroyer and a tribute to a fallen Marine. The commissioning of the USS Jason Du..
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) - South Beach is about to experience an invasion of snails. Dozens of massive pink snail sculptures are due to begin appearing throughout Miami Beach on Mond..
LEE COUNTY, Fla. - 1,600 TECO customers (out of 7,200) have service fully restored. Of those, 750 are businesses (out of 1200) and 850 are residential (out of 6000). Residential cu..
CHARLOTTE COUNTY, Fla. - Charlotte County Sheriff's Office solved a June 1 home burglary and vandalism case after FDLE matches DNA to blood found at the scene belonging to a 15-yea..
MIAMI (AP) - Some of Haiti's presidential candidates are in Miami to court Haitian-Americans' money and influence. Nineteen candidates are on the ballot in Haiti's presidential ele..
CLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) - Three fishermen who went missing on a trip in the Gulf of Mexico have been rescued. The men were spotted Saturday about 20 miles west of Clearwater. They we..
CEDAR FALLS, Iowa (AP) - A 26-year-old Florida woman is dead after a single-vehicle crash in Cedar Falls. Cedar Falls police say Kaley Michele Kennison of Palm Harbor, Fla., was a ..
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - One ticket matched the four winning numbers plus the Mega Ball number to collect $1.1 million in the Mega Money game, the Florida Lottery said Saturday. Th..
THE VILLAGES, Fla. (AP) - Former President George W. Bush doesn't miss much about the White House - except the pampering. In a rally Saturday at The Villages, a sprawling central F..
GRETNA, La. (AP) - The Jefferson Parish Council says hundreds of 80-pound anchors that once kept oil containment boom in place are now navigation hazards. It wants BP to remove the..
