LEHIGH ACRES FGCU softball team helps Habitat for Humanity build three homes The Florida Gulf Coast University softball team helped Habitat for Humanity build three homes Saturday.
ESTERO Home Base Golf Tournament helps SWFL Veterans Veterans hit the green at the Copperleaf Golf Course on Saturday. This was part of the Home Base golf tournament.
FORT MYERS At least one person dead after propane truck collides with golf cart Florida Highway Patrol is investigating a crash that has left one person dead and another injured Saturday morning.
Scattered storms ahead for your Saturday plans The Weather Authority is tracking weekend temperatures in the low to mid-90s this weekend with a chance for scattered storms this afternoon.
WINK NEWS SWFL Scoreboard: High School Football Week 3 Thunderstorms tried to put a stop to week three of high school football on Friday Night, but gridiron action prevailed.
Man accused of plotting murder-for-hire denied bond A man suspected of being involved with a murder-for-hire plot will stay behind bars. Ryan Toranzo had his renewed motion to set bond denied today in Collier County Court.
LABELLE Two dead after crash on State Road 80 According to the Florida Highway Patrol, there was a crash on State Road 80 that has left at least one person dead Friday evening.
DeSoto County looks to recruit more teachers While it can sometimes be easy to fill a classroom with students, it is not so easy for teachers. Schools across the nation and locally in Southwest Florida are still dealing with the challenges of teacher shortages. With class back in session, so is teacher recruiting for DeSoto County schools. The assistant superintendent, Jake Reynolds, […]
IMMOKALEE ROAD Push for change after deadly crash on Immokalee Rd. We’re told the woman was driving with two kids in the car when a semi ran a red light and hit her Thursday morning.
FORT MYERS BEACH Mobi-Mats deployed on Fort Myers Beach A walkway to paradise! Brand new and blue, the Mobi-Mat is making things easier for Fort Myers Beachgoers.
NAPLES Women of Steel business conference inspiring and empowering women Focused, hardworking, empowered. These women have made a name for themselves as Women of Steel.
NAPLES Beloved Collier County bus driver retires after 20 years After 20 years of getting kids to school safely, a beloved Collier County bus driver is retiring.
Wade Wilson has new death row mugshot Convicted double-killer Wade Wilson has a new death row mugshot.
SOUTHWEST FLORIDA Sizzle Dining is back in SWFL It’s Sizzle Season! Local restaurants are ready to welcome new faces by offering exclusive menu deals to attract new customers.
LEHIGH ACRES FGCU softball team helps Habitat for Humanity build three homes The Florida Gulf Coast University softball team helped Habitat for Humanity build three homes Saturday.
ESTERO Home Base Golf Tournament helps SWFL Veterans Veterans hit the green at the Copperleaf Golf Course on Saturday. This was part of the Home Base golf tournament.
FORT MYERS At least one person dead after propane truck collides with golf cart Florida Highway Patrol is investigating a crash that has left one person dead and another injured Saturday morning.
Scattered storms ahead for your Saturday plans The Weather Authority is tracking weekend temperatures in the low to mid-90s this weekend with a chance for scattered storms this afternoon.
WINK NEWS SWFL Scoreboard: High School Football Week 3 Thunderstorms tried to put a stop to week three of high school football on Friday Night, but gridiron action prevailed.
Man accused of plotting murder-for-hire denied bond A man suspected of being involved with a murder-for-hire plot will stay behind bars. Ryan Toranzo had his renewed motion to set bond denied today in Collier County Court.
LABELLE Two dead after crash on State Road 80 According to the Florida Highway Patrol, there was a crash on State Road 80 that has left at least one person dead Friday evening.
DeSoto County looks to recruit more teachers While it can sometimes be easy to fill a classroom with students, it is not so easy for teachers. Schools across the nation and locally in Southwest Florida are still dealing with the challenges of teacher shortages. With class back in session, so is teacher recruiting for DeSoto County schools. The assistant superintendent, Jake Reynolds, […]
IMMOKALEE ROAD Push for change after deadly crash on Immokalee Rd. We’re told the woman was driving with two kids in the car when a semi ran a red light and hit her Thursday morning.
FORT MYERS BEACH Mobi-Mats deployed on Fort Myers Beach A walkway to paradise! Brand new and blue, the Mobi-Mat is making things easier for Fort Myers Beachgoers.
NAPLES Women of Steel business conference inspiring and empowering women Focused, hardworking, empowered. These women have made a name for themselves as Women of Steel.
NAPLES Beloved Collier County bus driver retires after 20 years After 20 years of getting kids to school safely, a beloved Collier County bus driver is retiring.
Wade Wilson has new death row mugshot Convicted double-killer Wade Wilson has a new death row mugshot.
SOUTHWEST FLORIDA Sizzle Dining is back in SWFL It’s Sizzle Season! Local restaurants are ready to welcome new faces by offering exclusive menu deals to attract new customers.
MGN NEW ORLEANS (AP) – With summer barely begun, forecasters are already issuing heat advisories for much of the Southeast. A heat index of 103 degrees was expected Monday in southeast Mississippi, south central and southwest Alabama. And the National Weather Service issued heat advisories Monday for all of southeast Georgia and southeast South Carolina. Temperatures across parts of the region were forecast to climb into the high 90s, with possible heat index values of 105 to 112 degrees. ___ GEORGIA AND SOUTH CAROLINA In Atlanta, city officials announced Monday that 11 public swimming pools will remain free for everyone until Thursday due to extreme heat. The National Weather Service was projecting highs in the mid-90s in the Atlanta area on Monday. The weather service also said that in parts of south Georgia, the heat index – the soaring temperatures combined with high humidity – was expected to reach 105 degrees. Wes Tyler of the South Carolina State Climatology Office said certain aspects of the heat wave are unusual, but not unprecedented. He said longer daylight hours and a stretch of high pressure systems have contributed to the higher temperatures. “We’ve had 100 degree days in May before. It’s not uncommon, but it’s unusual to have a stretch of 100 degree heat this early in June,” Tyler said. “The only place that you can really escape the heat here in South Carolina is in probably the mountain valleys near moving water, or some of the higher summits that are forested.” ___ MISSISSIPPI Vince Mannon, owner of Air Man Air Conditioning of Hernando, Mississippi, says that his company is doing double its normal level of business, and that heat-related failures have picked up noticeably as temperatures warmed in the last two weeks. “We’re overwhelmed,” Mannon said. As temperatures rise, he said, the pressure rises in an air conditioning unit, stressing the tubing, motor and compressor. “To keep from leaving people without air, we’re working from 6 in the morning until 10 o’clock at night,” Mannon said. Mannon said there’s not much he can do to stay cool while solving the cooling problems of others. “I just make sure mine’s working good when I get home,” he said. ___ ALABAMA In southwest Alabama, the weather service said the combination of heat and humidity would make it feel like it was 108 degrees in spots. The hot weather worries Myra Page, who directs a nutrition program for about 80 elderly residents in Andalusia, Alabama, located just north of the Florida line. “We’re just getting started. We don’t know what we’re facing with these high temperatures,” Page said. About 40 people regularly visit the city’s air-conditioned senior activity center for meals and to play games like cards, she said, and workers regularly stress the importance of drinking plenty of water and other healthy liquids when the sun is blazing. “That helps a lot, just to remind them,” she said. But many elderly people living in the country can’t make it to town regularly and also lack air conditioning. So workers who deliver food daily to the 39 participants in a meals-on-wheels program also routinely check on the health of elderly people and, sometimes, help get fans to people who don’t have them. “We’re just going to take it day by day,” Page said. “That’s all we can do.” ___ TENNESSEE John Moore III, a forecaster with the National Weather Service’s office in Memphis, Tennessee, says it’s unusual for temperatures there to rise so high in June. He says the normal high temperature in Memphis in late June is usually about 90 degrees, while the forecast highs early this week are 95 degrees for Monday, 98 degrees for Tuesday and 97 degrees for Wednesday. “That’s getting up toward record-breaking heat levels,” Moore said. The good news is that for Memphis and surrounding parts of Tennessee, Arkansas and Mississippi, the heat is likely to break on Wednesday. Moore said forecasters expect a cold front will arrive that day, bringing clouds that will also cut the heat. ___ NORTH CAROLINA Hot weather spurs popsicle sales, said Jonathan Mills, the owner of LunaPops of Hillsborough, North Carolina. The bad news is that it makes production harder. LunaPops makes small-batch frozen pops that are sold in grocery and specialty stores. “When it really, really is hot, in the popsicle business, this is a good thing,” Mills said. “People will empty the shelves and buy all our products and they have to be refilled.” The worst weather for sales turns out not to be cold, but rain, Mills said. But heat also means that the company’s water chiller struggles to cool water enough to freeze for pops. Mills said workers have to feed ice into the chiller, and even that’s not enough. “If it goes up to 100, our capacity goes down 25 percent,” Mills said.