Lauren Sweeney

City Councilman Kevin Anderson said a cloud will hang over the Fort Myers police department until the full details of a three-year-old misconduct investigation are revealed. “Now we see the level of corruption that’s being alleged and I feel for those men and women who try to come in here every day and do a […]

A cloud of secrecy has surrounded an investigation that led to four Fort Myers Police Department officers to be placed on administrative leave three years ago. Nobody will speak about it, and few will even acknowledge it – until now. The president of the Gulf Coast Police Benevolent Association said the officers are under investigation […]

The Florida Police Benevolent Association filed suit against the City of Fort Myers demanding the release of documents associated with a 2017 audit into the police department. The Freeh Group conducted a needs assessment of the agency. It included appendices that discuss officers leaking information and mention murders, but most of the information on the […]

It’s a simple question. “What is this going to cost?” But a WINK News experiment found it’s really difficult to get the answer by calling a doctor’s office. WINK News called five primary care and three specialty practices to try to find out what an office visit would cost based on the terms of specific […]

Figuring outpatient out of pocket cost upfront for medical care can be an exhausting exercise, that the Trump administration hopes to streamline. But hospitals are fighting it. Hospital groups including the American Hospital Association are suing the Secretary for the Department of Health and Human Services over its price transparency rule. All hospitals in the […]

Christina Nicholson got an unexpected blessing last year. Her family of four was about to become a family of five. The news of the new baby on the way wasn’t the biggest surprise. After contacting her insurance company to find out which OB-GYN was in network, she found out she didn’t actually have maternity coverage […]

The cost for women in the United States to have a baby is now equivalent to more than one month’s salary, according to a study published in the January 2020 edition of Health Affairs. Researchers at the University of Michigan found that women with employer sponsored health benefits pay on average $4,500 for maternity care […]

Ryan Modell was killed in south Fort Myers in March 2016. WINK News investigative reporter Lauren Sweeney has extensively covered the State Attorney’s decision not to prosecute Modell’s shooter. A man who killed another down the street from his condominium in March 2016 is suing the father of the man he killed. Meantime, that father […]

The Leones are a picture of an all-American family. Dad is a firefighter and mom stays at home with their two children. But on top of everything else a mother has on her to do list, Allison Leone has spent much of the last year battling with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida (Florida Blue) […]

Ryan Modell was killed in south Fort Myers in March 2016. WINK News investigative reporter Lauren Sweeney has extensively covered the State Attorney’s decision not to prosecute Modell’s shooter. An attorney representing the father of a south Fort Myers man killed in 2016 sent Governor Ron Desantis a detailed letter asking for an independent prosecutor […]