Joey Pellegrino

A second experimental COVID-19 vaccine – this one from Moderna Inc. – yielded extraordinarily strong early results Monday, another badly needed dose of hope as the pandemic enters a terrible new phase. Moderna said its vaccine appears to be 94.5% effective, according to preliminary data from an ongoing study. A week ago, competitor Pfizer Inc. […]

President Donald Trump worked to take back an apparent acknowledgment that Joe Biden won the White House and was making clear he would keep trying to overturn the election result. Trump’s earlier comments Sunday had given some critics and supporters hope that the White House was ready to begin working on a transition with Biden’s […]

A driver was arrested at his Punta Gorda home after the Florida Highway Patrol says he committed a hit-and-run Sunday night. John K. Williams, 65, was traveling south on US-41 around 8 p.m. at the intersection of Edgewater Drive in Charlotte County. A pedestrian, 61, from Venice, was walking west across the southbound lanes of […]

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On Friday, the Collier Clerk’s Office is holding “Operation Green Light,” a one-day-only driver license reinstatement event that offers individuals the opportunity to pay overdue traffic ticket fines and/or court fees without paying the extra 32% collection fee. Individuals who meet all eligibility requirements will have their suspended driver license reinstated and get the “green […]

A coalition of federal and state officials found no evidence that votes were compromised or altered in last week’s presidential election, rejecting unsubstantiated claims of widespread fraud advanced by President Donald Trump and many of his supporters. The statement late Thursday, by government and industry officials who coordinate election cybersecurity, trumpeted the Nov. 3 election […]

A driver and passenger were injured in a hit-and-run crash on Alligator Alley Friday morning. A Naples man, 21, was driving north through Collier County on Alligator Alley near mile marker 86 with a male passenger, 23, from Fort Myers at 2:45 a.m. Their vehicle was in the right lane. A vehicle in the left […]

A Fort Myers man, 71, was killed early Friday morning in a crash at Bass Road and Bayberry Bend. According to the Florida Highway Patrol, the man was driving his SUV south on Bass Road around midnight when he lost control of the vehicle, traveling off the roadway to the right and colliding with a […]