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The long-awaited taxiway at Marco Island Executive Airport is cleared for takeoff with a recently approved $5.5 million grant, Collier County officials said Thursday.

Board member Pat Carroll said to help get the word out, the district needs a parent group to take the lead, since the Collier County School Board cannot lobby people to vote for the amendment one way or another.

The website AveWatch.com, an anonymous blog dedicated to the workings of Ave Maria University and town, is shutting down after four years. AveWatch maintained a decidedly negative slant against Ave Maria University and founder Tom Monaghan from the outset, when ...

A Hialeah man is facing a concealed weapons charge after a traffic stop on I-75 prompted by the high-beams on the vehicle in which he was riding.

A motorcyclist was arrested last month after a high speed chase on State Road 29 that ended with his bike overturned in Hendry County.

A Lee County father, who accidentally killed his infant daughter by leaving her in the backseat of his hot car, pleaded guilty to a felony charge today.

The NCH Healthcare System has lost an appeal to the National Labor Relations Board that a regional judge had been biased in his decision that the hospital violated the rights of nurses in 2007 when they were organizing for a ...

Four businesses in Estero and the San Carlos Park area have received counterfeit bills on Tuesday. According to Lee County Sheriff’s Office reports: At 1:33 p.m. Tuesday, Grande Oaks Liquor, 20301 Grand Oak Shoppes, Estero, reported a man went into ...

In Florida, the change was far more dramatic, with a nearly 27 percent change from 1,050,000 to 675,000 undocumented individuals.

A sting operation using an undercover detective and another person resulted in the arrests Wednesday of three members of a Bonita Springs family accused of making fake resident alien and Social Security cards.

An oil platform exploded and burned off the Louisiana coast Thursday, the second such disaster in the Gulf of Mexico in less than five months. This time, the Coast Guard said there was no leak, and no one was killed.

Collier County Sheriff's Office deputies are on scene of a multiple vehicle crash on Airport-Pulling Road in North Naples.

Location, location, location. While Marco Island residents want to know where the proposed charter high school will be, proponents say they’re more concerned about if it will be. Opposition comes from residents living near the school’s proposed startup location, which ...

It is a comfortable start to our Thursday morning temperatures are in the low to mid 70s with less humidity that what we have seen in quite some time.