Lindsey Sablan

HENDRY COUNTY, Fla. – The Hendry County Sheriff’s Office released an alert around 6 p.m. Sunday saying several crews were working a brush fire in Pioneer Plantation. The fire is in the area of Vero and Pioneer 5th Street. By 10 p.m officials told WINK News 150 acres was burned and crews had the fire 100-percent contained. […]

HALIFAX, Nova Scotia (AP) – An Air Canada plane made a hard landing in bad weather at the Halifax airport, skidding off a runway, shearing off its nose and crumpling an engine. The airline said Sunday that 25 people were taken to hospitals for observation and treatment of minor injuries. The airline said Flight AC624, […]

LEE COUNTY, Fla. (www.news-press.com) – Two fraternities and one sorority are either under probation or have been suspended at FGCU, two for alleged hazing incidents and the third for a house party where minors were found with alcohol. Disciplinary actions have been levied against local chapters of Alpha Kappa Alpha (AKA), Kappa Alpha Psi (KAP) and […]

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) – Hundreds of people, some carrying signs reading “no hate in our state,” gathered Saturday outside the Indiana Statehouse for a boisterous rally against a new state law that opponents say could sanction discrimination against gay people. Since Republican Gov. Mike Pence signed the bill into law Thursday, Indiana has been widely criticized […]

CAPE CORAL, Fla. – Police are searching for suspects after reports of a cluster of car and home burglaries Saturday morning. Police sent an alert saying they responded to a call in the the area northwest of Del Prado Boulevard North and Kismet Parkway East. Officers said at least two cars in the area were […]

BOSTON (AP) – A decorated Boston police officer remained in a medically induced coma Saturday, a night after he was shot in the face by a man with several gun convictions during a traffic stop that ended when other officers fatally shot his attacker, the city’s police commissioner said. Officer John Moynihan, 34, was struck […]

PANAMA CITY BEACH, Fla. (AP) – Seven people were injured, some critically, during an early-morning spray of gunfire Saturday at a spring break party on the Florida Panhandle, police said. An Alabama man was quickly apprehended and charged with attempted murder. Multiple 911 calls flooded in just before 1 a.m., reporting the shootings at the […]

LEE COUNTY, Fla. – Detectives have arrested one of the suspects involved in a violent home invasion in Cape Coral last week. Deputies arrested 21-year-old David Monestime, but they are still searching for three more suspects. On March 25 at 9:45 p.m deputies were called to a home in the 11,000 block of Royal Tee […]

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) – Three Gainesville websites had their normal content swapped for Muslim messages after apparently being hacked. The websites for the Gainesville Regional Transit System and its advertising services, as well as the City of Gainesville’s parking website were all targeted in the incident this week. In place of their typical pages was […]

LEHIGH ACRES, Fla. – One day after a ride was stuck in the air, WINK News is working to figure out what exactly went wrong. Around 8 p.m. Saturday, a ride called the Power Surge got stuck mid-air, about 40 feet high with six people on it. It took firefighters nearly two hours to rescue […]