ALVA Woodpeckers build home in Alva woman’s house You may have heard of squatters, but this woman is dealing with squawkers. Who needs a rooster to wake up when you have woodpeckers?
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PUNTA GORDA Charlotte Correctional prisoner arrested for death of another inmate State Attorney Amira Fox convened a grand jury, which decided to move forward with a case against a Charlotte Correctional inmate.
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The environmental effects of artificial sweeteners Experts are studying how the foods we eat affect the environment, especially after we flush our waste down the toilet.
Victim reacts to man exposing himself to her Ring camera You get a notification on your phone from your ring camera app that someone is at the door, only to find out it is someone exposing themselves. It’s the last thing victim Maria Kivi wanted or expected to see last week.
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ALVA Woodpeckers build home in Alva woman’s house You may have heard of squatters, but this woman is dealing with squawkers. Who needs a rooster to wake up when you have woodpeckers?
FORT MYERS Man claims he was trapped in a high-rise for 5 days A 77-year-old man wants justice after he claims he spent days trapped on the 24th floor of a high-rise apartment building.
PUNTA GORDA Charlotte Correctional prisoner arrested for death of another inmate State Attorney Amira Fox convened a grand jury, which decided to move forward with a case against a Charlotte Correctional inmate.
SANIBEL Construction near Dairy Queen eagle nest on Sanibel raises concerns While many eagle nests may be a bit difficult to see, one nest has always been a favorite for Sanibel residents and tourists.
The environmental effects of artificial sweeteners Experts are studying how the foods we eat affect the environment, especially after we flush our waste down the toilet.
Victim reacts to man exposing himself to her Ring camera You get a notification on your phone from your ring camera app that someone is at the door, only to find out it is someone exposing themselves. It’s the last thing victim Maria Kivi wanted or expected to see last week.
LEE COUNTY The art of capturing your eye and drawing you in How do you capture young, hip, trendy, fun, movers and shakers, all in a pose? We take you behind the scenes of a Gulfshore Life cover shoot.
FORT MYERS The lives of two SJC Boxers changed in the ring Two SJC Boxers, Mario Nunez and Arbon Kurtishi, help each other in the ring as each of them had their lives changed because of boxing.
FORT MYERS Chlamydia cases rising sharply in Lee County If you think about a crowded space- something with more than 250 people- if it’s in Lee county, statistically one person has chlamydia.
SANIBEL Sanibel resort day passes hope to get more business on the island A pass will allow vacationers to hang out at a Sanibel beach club for a day in hopes of drumming up some business.
Voting equipment tested ahead of Lee County elections Voting equipment is being tested in Lee County. This is to ensure all ballots are printed and counted correctly for the upcoming election.
Collier County teen assaulted after leaving party The teen has been charged and the sheriff’s office said they’re aware that many believe felony charges are in order, but under Florida law, there are very specific criteria that must be met for felony charges to be filed.
WINK weather team watching tropical wave over Atlantic Ocean The Weather Authority is watching a tropical disturbance over the Central Atlantic Ocean.
CAPE CORAL Cape Coral drug bust leads investigators to fake fentanyl, cash and guns Cape Coral man arrest on drug charges. Investigators said they found, guns, drugs, and more than $32,000 in Richard Riley’s home.
NAPLES Naples youth flag football team to compete in Ohio tournament This weekend, the Naples Lunatics Green will compete in the Superhero Sports tournament in Canton, Ohio.
MGN Online ST. LOUIS (AP) – A recent hammer attack that killed a 32-year-old immigrant has members of St. Louis’ sizable Bosnian community embracing some of the same tactics as Ferguson protesters – albeit in hopes of attracting a stronger police presence rather than opposing it. Hundreds of protesters rallied the past two nights in the Little Bosnia neighborhood of south St. Louis in response to the death of Zemir Begic, who police say was beaten to death early Sunday in front of his fiancee and two friends. The shouts of “Bosnian lives matter” echoed the “Black lives matter” chant heard in Ferguson and beyond in the wake of the death of Michael Brown, who was shot and killed by a suburban St. Louis white police officer in August. St. Louis authorities say there is no evidence that the attack was racially motivated. But for some, Begic’s gruesome death also has revived painful memories of their own violent past in the former Yugoslovia, where ethnic cleansing led an estimated 70,000 Bosnians to settle here over the past two decades – making it the largest settlement outside of the country now known as Bosnia-Herzegovina. “We didn’t come here to get killed,” truck driver Demir Begovic, 32, said as he stood Tuesday afternoon beside a Begic memorial near the scene of the attack. Police have charged Robert Joseph Mitchell, 17, as an adult with first-degree murder and armed criminal action. He remained in jail Tuesday on a $750,000 cash-only bond. Two other unnamed suspects, ages 15 and 16, are in custody; juvenile court officials said they expect them to be charged as adults. A fourth suspect is at large. Begovic and other community members suggest the hammer attack was racially motivated. Begic was white, while Mitchell and one of the two juveniles are black, and the other is Hispanic. St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay rejected that characterization, as did Police Chief Sam Dotson, who vowed to Sunday’s crowd a stronger police presence. “There is no evidence that this was a crime occasioned by the race or ethnicity of the victim,” Slay said. Begic moved to the United States from Bosnia in 1996, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. His sister told the newspaper that the family first lived in Utica, New York, and then Waterloo, Iowa. The 32-year-old had been in St. Louis for just months. According to police, Begic was parked in his car and preparing to drive away with his fiancee and friends when the group of teens approached and began hitting the vehicle. Begic got out to confront the teens and was attacked, according to the probable cause statement. An autopsy determined that Begic died from blunt force trauma to the head and suffered bruises and cuts to his head and face. The neighborhood, also known as Bevo Mill for its landmark German windmill, has had other violent incidents lately. A 19-year-old Bosnian immigrant was shot and killed in a May 2013 convenience store robbery. Another convenience store clerk, an immigrant from Bhutan, was killed the next week. And earlier this month, there was an armed robbery and separate carjacking. While the victims of those attacks weren’t seriously injured, the crimes further rattled the close-knit Bosnian community. “Too many young boys are getting killed for no reason,” according to community leader Rusmin Topalovic, 38, a cleaning company owner. “We just need more attention from police.” Most of the Bosnians here are Muslim, with many arriving after the war that broke out in the early 1990s when Bosnia joined several republics of former Yugoslavia and declared independence. A Serb minority opposed it and tried to carve out parts of the country by expelling and killing non-Serbs. Some 100,000 people died. The St. Louis settlement initially grew due to U.S. State Department referrals and then increased through word of mouth.