Dannielle Garcia

A Bonita Springs woman and her mother are now staying at home after returning from China. Coronavirus is their big concern and the pair are doing a volunteer quarantine for two weeks. Emily Glazier is a first-year English professor at the University of South China. The university is in the Hunan province, which is a […]

Spring break is around the corner, and, if you plan to hit the Gulf this week on Fort Myers Beach, it’s likely packed already. We looked at how the Town of Fort Myers Beach is preparing for spring break 2020 Tuesday and what’s expected to be a busier season than last year. The water is […]

The start of the week marked a critical hearing for a former Collier County elementary teacher who is charged with molesting dozens of students. Monday, Hector Manley, 30, listened as a forensics interviewer with Children’s Advocacy Center of Southwest Florida talked about her interviews with the young children who accused Manley of lewd crimes in […]

Fort Myers Police Department is working to better communicate with community members. The police department hopes training will improve its transparency in lieu of recent past issues that brought police under public scrutiny. For Fort Myers police, standard operating procedures include working the crime scene and offering little information to neighbors and reporters. But Friday, […]

Cadaver dogs are now in Collier County as detectives look for baby Andrew Caballeiro. The baby is at the center of an AMBER alert taking investigators from Miami-Dade County through Southwest Florida, up to the Tampa area and back to Collier. The newborn vanished more than a week ago. Where detectives search in Collier County, […]

The search for one-week-old baby Andrew from Miami has shifted to Collier County. There’s still an AMBER Alert for Andrew and he hasn’t been seen in a week. Dozens of law enforcement agencies from all across the state, along with the FBI and volunteers, are focusing their attention along SR-29 north of Everglades City. When […]

It looks like basketball and sounds like basketball, but this game is a bridge; a way for the Fort Myers Police Department to reach out to kids in the community. “It’s an awesome feeling, getting them to respect us and learn what we’re trying to do,” said Fort Myers Police Athletic League (PAL) Coordinator Keith […]

While we are learning more details on Thursday about Porter Albert, the man who disappeared under mysterious circumstances in Fort Myers two weeks ago, there is still no progress in finding him. It has been 15 days and there is still no sign of Albert; but, the Fort Myers Police Dept. is working the missing […]

Fort Myers Police are searching for Porter Taylor Albert. Detectives found someone else driving his car on Sunday night, who was arrested. The suspect said she was looking for Albert. Detectives working the case found Albert’s silver Lexus, but did not know it was his. Cape Coral Police Dept. officers arrested Tiffany Contestable for driving […]

The place where a family once called home in Bonita Springs is now nothing but charred remnants, scorched rubble and reminders of what used to be there after a fire on Thursday. In the days following the fire, what was left was stolen. Carol Bloom said she and her boyfriend, Pete, got their four kids […]