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Bear gaining popularity in Gateway neighborhood
GATEWAY, Fla. — Neighbors along Kentwood Avenue in Gateway said a bear has been coming out of the woods and right up to their driveways. “I just saw this big black shadow. And then I sat up, and I could not believe it was a bear right there in front of me just a few feet away,” said Glenn Fry, who caught the bear on camera.
Mussels’ bats explode in 10-6 comeback win to sweep Clearwater
CLEARWATER, Fla. – Rixon Wingrove and Carlos Aguiar led a powerful offensive performance Sunday, as the Mighty Mussels swept the Clearwater Threshers with a 10-6 comeback win at BayCare Ballpark. The middle third of the lineup – Wingrove, Aguiar and Matthew Clayton combined to go 7-for-11 (.636/.689/1.545) with four...
ESPN features Fort Myers High School baseball in 'The Walkout' documentary
FORT MYERS, Fla. — ESPN featured Fort Myers High School baseball in an exclusive documentary covering "The Walkout" following a coach's texts using racial slurs that led to the team's division. In April 2023, Fort Myers High School baseball players staged a walkout on their own teammates six weeks...
SWFLA To Do List: ‘Women in Rock,’ ‘Seussical Jr.’ and more
Follow your favorite Dr. Seuss characters; the Cat in the Hat, Horton the Elephant and more on a musical adventure to protect an abandoned egg and the Whos ― tiny people living on a speck that Horton discovered. Tickets are $25. Showings at various times, July 26-28 at Gulfshore Playhouse, 755 Eighth Ave. S., Naples. Information: gulfshoreplayhouse.org.
WINK Neighborhood Watch: Guns, drugs, killer road rage, and fentanyl
This week’s segment of WINK Neighborhood Watch features drug and gun-related charges, killer road rage and enough fentanyl to kill nearly 100,000 people. Javier Joel Perez was sentenced to 8 years in federal prison for possession of a controlled substance with the intent to distribute it, possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking, and possession of a firearm and ammunition as a person with convictions.
Florida gas prices have plummeted 18 cents per gallon, AAA says
Florida gasoline prices have plummeted 18 cents per gallon in the past 10 days, according to the AAA-The Auto Club Group's weekly gas price briefing. That caused the state average to fall to $3.36 per gallon on Sunday. "Future prices have fallen the past two weeks, to the lowest levels...
Have shark attacks increased in Florida? Expert says no
A shark bit a child last week near Crandon Park, off Key Biscayne, leaving him with a minor superficial wound to his leg, just days after a man spearfishing off Key West was badly bitten by a bull shark. These are just two of the latest shark attacks that have...
National Hurricane Center on track for changes to cone of concern. Here's what to expect
The National Hurricane Center's new experimental tropical cyclone forecast cone graphic will be coming out in mid-August, just in time for the peak period of hurricane season. The new cone will add tropical storm and hurricane watches and warnings for interior counties in the path of the storm. The current cone displays watches...
Advocates respond to state encampment ban, citing a lack of housing for rise in homeless Floridians
On Oct. 1, a Florida law banning counties and municipalities from allowing people to regularly sleep or camp on public property will take effect. Dawn Gilman, the CEO of Changing Homelessness in Jacksonville, spoke Friday on The Florida Roundup about the law and efforts to help Floridians who don’t have housing.
Florida Highway Patrol leads 'Best Looking Cruiser;' Voting still going
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (CBS12) — Florida state troopers want the whole country to know they patrol the roads in the most stylish cruisers around, and they need everyone’s help to do it. In the American Association of State Troopers’ poll of which state has the best-looking vehicles, Florida is...
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