Florida: Governor DeSantis names 11 experts to Red Tide Task Force
On Friday, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced the appointments of 11 expert researchers and leading scientists to the recently re-organized Red Tide Task Force. For over 15 years, this Task Force had been inactive More...
Eye Centers Of Florida agrees to pay $525K to settle False Claims Act Liability, Medicare fraud
United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces today that Eye Centers of Florida has agreed to pay the United States $525,000 to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by knowingly falsifying More...
Fort Myers Club Blu shooters identified as Derrick Church, Demetrius O’Neal, and Tajze Battle
The Three people taken into custody the mass shooting at a Florida nightclub were identified by the Lee County Sheriff’s Office as Derrick Church, Demetrius O’Neal, and Tajze Battle. While the three More...
Fort Myers shooting: Sean Archilles, Stef’an Strawder identified as victims murdered, Club says there was security
While the police have not identified the victims, local reports described them as teens who were attending Club Blu’s “swimsuit glow party” and one of the victims as Sean Archilles. Stef’An More...
Fort Myers’ Club Blu Shooting: Three detained after shooting leaves 2 dead, Syreeta Gray, Tim Settles offer details
Three people had been detained for questioning as police locked down the area around Club Blu in Fort Myers, Florida, after a shooting just after midnight left two dead and at least seventeen reporting injuries. More...
Florida teen, William Scott, arrested after group sex with girl in school bathroom, 16 students ‘disciplined’
A Florida 16-year-old has been arrested in connection to an incident where several boys allegedly had sex with a single 15-year-old girl in the bathroom of South Fort Meyers High School, officials say. William Scott is More...
Patrick Carlopoli held in connection with ‘gruesome’ Florida triple murder
A southwest Florida man is in custody after his girlfriend, her teenage daughter, the couple’s toddler and their dog were found dead at their home in what has been described as “a gruesome crime scene.” Patrick More...
Florida church van crash leaves 8 dead, 10 hurt
Eight people were killed and 10 others injured when a church van crashed into a Florida canal on its way back from a weekend retreat, authorities said. The 16-passenger van, carrying 18 people as it traveled across More...
Caitlin Early, Monica Olvera, Justice Alvarado, Alan Garcia receive Suncoast CU Foundation scholarships
Suncoast Credit Union Foundation (Foundation) recognized four freshmen with $88,000 in higher education scholarships on June 18, 2014. Over 1,039 students throughout southwest Florida applied for the annual scholarship More...
Watch Florida teen Traveshia Blanks knockout attack video
STRANGE NEWS EXAMINER: According to a Lee County Sherriff’s press release, 15-year-old Traveshia Blanks was arrested on Tuesday following an attack in which she sneaked up behind a 73-year-old man and kicked More...
Remains of soldier killed in Vietnam, Staff Sgt Lawrence Woods, discovered nearly 50 years later
A family in Ft Meyers Florida received some shocking news this week as the remains of their loved one has been identified. Staff Sgt Lawrence Woods photo supplied Lisa Szynamski confirmed that officials from the More...
Quadryle Davis, Florida student disarmed on bus by fellow students, the ‘heroes’ were suspended as well
A Florida teenager was suspended from his high school along with two others after forcibly disarming a fellow student who allegedly pointed a loaded gun and threatened to shoot another pupil on a school bus, according More...
Dejuan Anderson, Ft Meyers man, pulls out machete in police station, gets tasered, then arrested VIDEO
A man was tasered after he walked into the Fort Myers Police Department on Wednesday morning and threatened officers with a machete. Dejuan Jarrell Anderson mugshot The suspect, identified as Dejuan Jarrell Anderson, More...
Sex offender and girlfriend arrested after leaving cell phone filled with child porn behind at Walmart
A sex offender and his girlfriend were arrested on Wednesday after a cell phone laden with child porn images was left in a Walmart shopping cart. The phone belonged to Alan Robert Johnson, convicted in 2003 of possessing More...
