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LEE COUNTY Feds grant $2.8M to fight human trafficking in Florida U.S. Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announced Tuesday that the Middle District of Florida has received $2,879,856 from the federal government in the fight against human trafficking. The funding will help the state’s efforts to combat human trafficking and to provide services to trafficking victims. “The scourge of human trafficking is the modern-day equivalent of slavery, […]
FORT MYERS Low chance of development for tropical disturbance in central Atlantic The Weather Authority is still monitoring a tropical wave about 750 miles east of the Windward Islands. Dubbed Invest 93-L, this area of disturbed weather looks slightly more organized today. Some gradual development is over the next day or so as the disturbance moves slowly westward. However, later this week, high wind shear is expected […]
WASHINGTON (AP) Trump urged to delay 2024 launch after GOP’s uneven election It was supposed to be a red wave that former President Donald Trump could triumphantly ride to the Republican nomination as he prepares to launch another White House run. Instead, Tuesday night’s disappointing results for the GOP are raising new questions about Trump’s appeal and the future of a party that has fully embraced him, […]
Port Charlotte Port Charlotte man arrested on child pornography charges A Port Charlotte man was arrested Wednesday on charges related to child pornography. Brendon John Boule, 39, was identified as a suspect after numerous Cyber-Tips were reported to the National Center of Missing and Exploited Children between Aug. 4 through Nov. 2 regarding child pornography files being uploaded using a web-based chat platform called FreeChatNow. […]
Fort Myers SWFL Crime Stoppers asks for tips near 40th anniversary of teenager’s disappearance Jan. 16 will mark 40 years since a Lee County teenager went missing after a trip to the Edison Mall with her family. Mary Opitz, 17, was last seen on Jan. 16, 1981, heading towards the mall parking lot. She was with her mother and brother and told them she was tired and was going […]
CHARLESTON, S.C. (CBS) Photojournalist-turned-nurse captures COVID patients’ intimate moments The most serious effects of the COVID-19 pandemic have happened mostly behind closed doors — in private homes and hospitals, where more than 800,000 Americans have died and many more have been sick. CBS News and David Begnaud, lead national correspondent for “CBS Mornings,” have extensively covered COVID-19 across the country since the pandemic began. […]
(AP) In Russian invasion of Ukraine, Cold War echoes reverberate A rivalry with Russia. A proxy battleground. Nuclear brinksmanship. For many generations of Americans, it’s just like old times. The invasion of Ukraine has rapidly returned echoes of a Cold War mentality to the United States, with a familiar foe in Russia. Bars have poured out their Russian vodka. McDonald’s, a symbol of the end […]
WASHINGTON (AP) Carson thinks Trump will ‘get there’ on athletes kneeling The lone African American member of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet said Monday he would work with the president on the issue of athletes taking a knee during the national anthem, though Trump has shown no signs of softening, tweeting over the weekend that he would not watch soccer or football if players don’t stand for […]
(AP) FDA approves first COVID-19 drug: the antiviral remdesivir The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the first drug to treat COVID-19: remdesivir, an antiviral medicine given through an IV for patients needing hospitalization. The drug, which California-based Gilead Sciences Inc. is calling Veklury, cut the time to recovery by five days – from 15 days to 10 on average – in a […]
CLEWISTON A previous paddling led to ban on corporal punishment in Hendry County schools Paul Puletti, a former Hendry County school superintendent, is responsible for the ban on corporal punishment in the school district he used to lead. That’s why Puletti was surprised to see the video of Melissa Carter, Central Elementary School principal, paddling a 6-year-old student while a school clerk, Cecilia Self, held the girl down. “I […]