Tropical Depression #2 upgraded to Tropical Storm BerylAve Maria business faces constant flooding due to rain
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The Weather Authority Tropical Depression #2 upgraded to Tropical Storm Beryl The Weather Authority is tracking Tropical Depression #2, which has formed in the Atlantic.
AVE MARIA Ave Maria business faces constant flooding due to rain Years of hard work were ruined by a leaky roof that destroyed merchandise and covered the floor in water.
FORT MYERS Florida Gulf Coast Tattoo Expo kicks off in downtown Fort Myers The best tattoo artists in the industry are in town for the Florida Gulf Coast Tattoo Expo.
Minority voters react to presidential debate One of the biggest topics discussed during the debate was how both candidates would persuade minority voters.
Collier County’s innovative Independence Day drone show Collier County is stepping up its game this 4th of July with its first large-scale drone show located at the Paradise Coast Sports Complex.
ENGLEWOOD Charlotte County Sheriff’s Office seizes 196 illegal gambling slot machines Charlotte County deputies say Salim Qadir was running an illegal gambling ring at the tiffany square bingo hall in Englewood.
PUNTA GORDA Supreme Court rules DOJ overstepped authority on hundreds of Jan. 6 charges Supreme Court Justices decided 6-3 to throw out a lower court’s ruling that allowed a broad interpretation of an Enron-era statute to charge hundreds of defendants in the January 6th, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
FORT MYERS BEACH Six months in: Margaritaville’s impact on Fort Myers Beach The Chief Operating Officer for TBI Hospitality, the company that owns Margaritaville on Fort Myers Beach, said the numbers are looking good.
Death penalty law changing justice in Florida This change now means that these three killers, Joseph Zieler, Wade Wilson and Zephen Xaver face the death penalty.
New treatment for Hodgkin lymphoma shows promise A new treatment is turning the body against the deadly cells, giving more hope to people battling this disease.
SANIBEL Southwest Florida invests billions in beach nourishment projects post-Hurricane Ian Are the billons of dollars spent on sand worth the giant piles of sand and dirt laying right next to beach chairs?
FORT MYERS LCSO searching for Three Oaks Park fatal shooter, suspected to be male The Lee County Sheriff’s Office said that it is making progress in the search for the suspect who shot and killed a young man in Three Oaks Park early Thursday.
FORT MYERS Fort Myers attorney accused of sexually abusing employee loses license for 5 years An attorney accused of sexually abusing an employee and asking clients to trade sex for legal fees has now lost his license to practice law for five years.
FORT MYERS 2 of 4 arrested on gun and drug charges following Fort Myers shootings Two out of four people have been arrested in connection to two shootings that occurred in Fort Myers over the weekend.
Jabari Irons earns spot at United World Wrestling Beach World Series Jabari Irons wins at Carolina Beach Nationals to secure a spot in the United World Wrestling Beach World Series.
MGN CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) – Dangerously high wind kept a deep-space observatory grounded Tuesday and put off a radically new landing test of the booster rocket. SpaceX called off its sunset launch with just 12 minutes remaining in the countdown because of gusts of 115 mph several miles up – strong enough to damage the rocket in flight. It was the private company’s second attempt in three days to launch the spacecraft first envisioned by former Vice President Al Gore and resuscitated by NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Air Force. Last-minute radar trouble foiled Sunday’s launch effort, then SpaceX skipped Monday because of heavy rain. “Extreme wind shear over Cape Canaveral,” SpaceX’s founder and chief executive Elon Musk warned via Twitter a few hours before Tuesday’s try. “Feels like a sledgehammer when supersonic in the vertical. Hoping it changes.” It didn’t, and SpaceX decided it was too risky to fly. SpaceX must launch the observatory by Wednesday or face a delay until Feb. 20. The moon – lunar gravity to be more precise – would be in the way of the spacecraft during that eight-day blackout. Excellent weather was forecast for Wednesday’s 6:03 p.m. try. Also on tap will be a bid by SpaceX to land its leftover first-stage booster on an ocean platform. Last month’s inaugural test ended in flames after the launch of a supply run to the International Space Station. The unmanned cargo ship, Dragon, coincidentally, was scheduled to return home Tuesday. Loaded with science samples, bad spacesuit parts and other broken equipment, the Dragon departed the space station four hours before the Falcon’s planned liftoff. Splashdown was set to occur in the Pacific off the Southern California coast 1½ hours after the scuttled launch. Once aloft, the observatory, dubbed DSCOVR, will fly to a point 1 million miles from Earth in direct line with the sun to watch for incoming geomagnetic storms that could trigger power outages on Earth. This so-called Lagrange point, located 92 million miles from the sun, would provide as much as a one-hour lead time to prepare for potentially disruptive solar outbursts. In addition, DSCOVR will provide a steady stream of pictures of the entire sunlit side of Earth. It was Gore’s idea in 1998 to provide continuous views of Earth from afar that led to this space weather satellite. There was no immediate confirmation as to whether Gore returned for the launch attempt Tuesday as expected Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Florida, said from Washington that there hasn’t been a full, sunlit picture of the Earth since Apollo 17 in 1972 – NASA’s last manned moon-landing mission. Subsequent images have been stitched together, he noted, for composite shots. The $340 million DSCOVR mission began as Gore’s Triana, named after the lookout who first spotted land on Christopher Columbus’ voyage to the New World. It was canceled for political reasons, however, and the spacecraft put in storage in 2001. NASA and NOAA resurrected it several years later and made the sun its primary mission, with Earth-gazing a secondary objective. In a repeat of a ground-breaking experiment, SpaceX will fly its leftover first-stage booster to a platform floating 370 miles off the Florida coast. Last month’s test came close, but ultimately failed; the booster ran out of hydraulic fluid for the guidance fins, landed hard and tumbled into the Atlantic in flames. SpaceX added extra hydraulic fluid for this second test, intended to demonstrate money-saving rocket reusability. But company officials warned the booster would be coming in faster this time from about 80 miles up, making it harder to nail the vertical touchdown. The odds of success remained no better than 50-50, officials said. Musk intends to land boosters back on firm soil, once the operation is perfected. On Tuesday, officials at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station announced that SpaceX will lease a launch complex once used to shoot off Atlas missiles, and convert it into its first-ever booster-landing pad. “It’s a whole new world,” Brig. Gen. Nina Armagno, commander of the 45th Space Wing, said in a statement.