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Most Wanted Wednesday: Southwest Florida’s most wanted suspects for August 14, 2024
This weekly Most Wanted Wednesday WINK News segment features fugitives from justice in Southwest Florida. This is your chance to help the community with the tip that gets these people off the street. These suspects need to be found – and if you can help, you could earn a cash reward of up to $3,000.
The Elite 11: Who are Southwest Florida's top volleyball players to watch during the 2024 season?
Those sounds of bumping, setting, and spiking are finally back in Southwest Florida. With volleyball matches set to begin next week, The News-Press and Naples Daily News compiled a list of the area's top volleyball players to watch in 2024, called the Elite 11. The selections were determined by past performance and the expectation of what is to come on the court over the next few months. ...
WAITING IN THE WEEDS: Lehigh lawn care mows bus stops for free
LEHIGH ACRES, Fla. — As Lee County students returned to school this week, a lot of them had to hop back on the bus and wait at their bus stop. Several bus stops in Lehigh Acres have overgrown grass and force students to wait in the street. "I don't...
Letters to the editor for Wednesday, August 14, 2024
Cochran for Lee Commission If you're happy with the increasing traffic congestion, a county commission that regularly disregards the Lee County Comprehensive Plan, and who represents the interests of the construction industry by consistently approving higher intensity residential and commercial development, then vote for the developer's candidate Mike Greenwell. Obviously increasing development intensity...
Lee County amateur radio operators strive to help communication during disasters
FORT MYERS, Fla. — Deep inside the Lee County Emergency Management Operations Center in Fort Myers, you'll find a small room marked as the "Amateur Radio Room." Though the space filled with radios, microphones, and cables is small, it plays a big role in keeping the lines of communication open when the weather is at its worst by serving as a home base for Lee County's Amateur Radio Emergency Services or "ARES" for short.
Lee County student posts threat to kill teacher on Instagram; arrested
A Lee County high school student faces charges and a student conduct hearing after authorities say he threatened to kill an educator and anyone who told authorities about it via social media. The student, a 15-year-old Lehigh Acres resident attends Gateway High School. He faces charges of written threat of violence after transmitting a message threatening to kill or do bodily harm to a teacher. ...
Man gets two life sentences for killing girlfriend and her mother in San Carlos Park
LEE COUNTY, Fla. — A Lee County Judge sentenced to two consecutive life sentences for the murders of two women in Lee County. Deputies arrested Ethan Cartwright in 2021 for shooting his girlfriend, Anne Fleury, and his girlfriend's mother, Jeanne Pierre Charles Andre, at a home along Apple Road in San Carlos Park.
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