Joey Pellegrino

It was a rough match for Team Fluff: Team Ruff defeated their opponents in the 17th annual Puppy Bowl on Sunday with a dramatic comeback. This year’s game featured 70 puppies from 22 shelters that were split up into two teams to compete for “touchdowns” in a canine-sized football stadium. Hosted by Snoop Dogg and […]

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers have seized nearly 15 million counterfeit face masks since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, the agency reported Thursday. Agents confiscated the unsafe personal protective equipment as part of an effort to prevent criminals from exploiting the public crisis for economic gain. The agency also seized roughly 180,000 prohibited […]

The Senate early Friday approved a measure that would let Democrats muscle President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief plan through the chamber without Republican support. Vice President Kamala Harris was in the chair to cast the tie-breaking vote, her first. Democrats in the chamber applauded after Harris announced the 51-50 vote at around 5:30 […]

Publix vaccine slots for Lee, Collier and Charlotte counties become available at 7 a.m. Friday and were booked by 8:03 a.m. Due to some manner of website glitch, the numbers of slots on the vaccine page did not lower until 7:34 a.m. The process has been adjusted, and the Publix website now comes with instructions: […]

The report of a suspicious person behind a Golden Gate laundromat early Thursday morning led to the arrest of a man who is already a suspect in a burglary investigation. Around 1:30 a.m., a Collier County Sheriff’s deputy responded to a report of a suspicious person behind the 24-hour laundromat at 4045 Golden Gate Parkway. […]

The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits declined to 779,000 last week, a still-historically high total that shows that a sizable number of people keep losing jobs to the viral pandemic. Last week’s total dropped from 812,000 the previous week, the Labor Department said Thursday, and is the lowest in two months. Still, before the […]

Publix vaccine slots for Lee, Collier and Charlotte counties became available at 6 a.m. Wednesday and were booked by 6:47 a.m. The process has been adjusted, and the Publix website now comes with instructions: The sign-up page displays a counter ticking down until the next time the page refreshes. A list of Florida counties shows […]

Legendary actor Hal Holbrook, known for his one-man stage show portraying Mark Twain, has died at the age of 95. Holbrook, who appeared on the hit series ‘Designing Women’ with his late wife Dixie Carter, passed away at his Beverly Hills home on Jan. 23, according to the New York Times. Holbrook appeared in many […]

There will be six more weeks of winter, Punxsutawney Phil predicted as he emerged from his burrow on a snowy Tuesday morning to perform his Groundhog Day duties. Members of Phil’s “inner circle” woke up the furry critter at 7:25 a.m. at Gobbler’s Knob in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, to see whether he would see his shadow […]

A Port Charlotte man is facing multiple charges of vehicle burglary after the Charlotte County Sheriff’s Office says he left his phone behind inside one of the vehicles. Over the weekend, a newspaper delivery driver noticed a light shining inside a vehicle. As he got closer, a man dressed in a dark hooded sweatshirt exited […]