Crews battle 2.5-acre brush fire near Alico and Eagle Village DriveJake’s story: A mother’s mission to share her son’s story and help other young people
ESTERO Crews battle 2.5-acre brush fire near Alico and Eagle Village Drive San Carlos Park Fire District is on the scene fighting a 2.5-acre brushfire near Alico and Eagle Village Drive.
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CAPE CORAL Fatigue sets in for third day of FEMA hearings Flying several hours to come to a FEMA code compliance hearing in Cape Coral is the reality for John Gasparini from Maryland.
ESTERO Crews battle 2.5-acre brush fire near Alico and Eagle Village Drive San Carlos Park Fire District is on the scene fighting a 2.5-acre brushfire near Alico and Eagle Village Drive.
FORT MYERS Jake’s story: A mother’s mission to share her son’s story and help other young people One Fort Myers mom is turning her pain into purpose after her son, who she refers to as her “heavenly Angel,” took his own life.
CAPE CORAL New renderings for the Cape Coral Yacht Club promise a bright future The Cape Coral Yacht Club, which has been part of this community since the 1960s, will now have a new look after Hurricane Ian’s devastating effects.
LEHIGH ACRES Owner bars public from Barefoot Lake, LCSO installs Watch Tower Every weekend, roughly 200 people go to Barefoot Lake in Lehigh Acres to relax, fish, swim and have a good time.
CAPE CORAL Concern over water shortage in Cape Coral Concern is flowing through Cape Coral as neighbors are seeing their canal levels low and their wells run dry.
FORT MYERS FSW softball swinging for success in the postseason Now their focus shifts to states which means the newbies are looking to the experienced sophomores for advice.
BONITA SPRINGS Young SWFL tennis player competing with professionals You may not know her name now, but you might want remember it because 16-year-old Cookie Jarvis-Tredgett is already competing with professionals.
NORTH NAPLES ‘It’s all about connection,’ Statement Peace makes jewelry with sustainability in mind The brand Statement Peace, once started inside founder Jessica Lee’s home, is now in 2,700 stores across the country
Pine Manor 2 arrested for firing gun at birthday party in Pine Manor A party ended with two people behind bars.
FORT MYERS Shooting investigation on busy Fort Myers street Police are conducting a shooting investigation that involves a traffic crash near Michigan Avenue and Dr. Martin Luther King Boulevard.
FGCU New FGCU athletic director Colin Hargis ready to build on department’s success New FGCU athletic director Colin Hargis talks about the department’s future amid the age of NIL and the transfer portal.
FORT MYERS More middle-aged women being treated for acne You probably thought you broke up with it after high school, but acne is rearing it’s ugly blackheads in adult women.
Lee County student ran up and hit teacher in head, report shows The report says a 13-year-old student ran up and smacked a teacher in the head because multiple classmates offered him money to do so.
NAPLES Collier Planning Commission continues discussion for apartments near Fiddler’s Creek The developer of Fiddler’s Creek wants to build hundreds of luxury apartments on a slice of a 600 acre-plus property known as section 29.
CAPE CORAL Fatigue sets in for third day of FEMA hearings Flying several hours to come to a FEMA code compliance hearing in Cape Coral is the reality for John Gasparini from Maryland.
MGN NEW YORK (AP) – The U.S. government is seeking to stop Electrolux from buying General Electric’s appliance division, saying the combined company would dominate sales of ovens and other cooking-related kitchen appliances, especially to customers like home builders, property managers, hotels, and governments. General Electric Co. and Electrolux say they will defend the sale in court and aim to complete the $3.3 billion deal this year. The companies announced the sale in September. The U.S. Department of Justice has filed suit asking a U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., to block the sale. The agency says the deal would eliminate a major competitor and leave Electrolux and Whirlpool as the only big companies in the U.S. selling cooking appliances such as ovens and ranges. Electrolux sells most of its products in the U.S. under the Frigidaire brand. The Justice Department is particularly concerned about “contract channel” sales, where suppliers sell to homebuilders, to the builders and managers of apartment buildings and condominiums, hotels and motels; and to governments. It said Electrolux has made major efforts to win more contract channel business over the last decade, but is now seeking to acquire GE’s business instead of competing with it. GE began to look for a buyer for its appliance division in part because of increasing competition, though, especially from up-and-coming Asian brands like Samsung and LG. GE and Electrolux will argue that the competitive landscape of the past is very different from the one they are now facing as these newer brands push into the U.S. market. The Justice Department is relying on numbers “that don’t predict very well what could happen,” said Joe Sims, an antitrust lawyer at Jones Day who is representing Electrolux. He spoke on a conference call with reporters. Samsung and LG have increased their market share to 20 percent of the large appliance market from almost nothing a decade ago, Sims said. Sims also said that the big buyers of these appliances, retailers such as Home Depot and Best Buy along with major home builders, are so powerful that they pressure manufacturers to keep prices low and competition fierce. Electrolux said in a statement that the Justice Department’s suit runs counter to its decision to approve Whirlpool’s acquisition of Maytag in 2006. Similar anti-competitive concerns were raised then by Justice Department staff, because Maytag was a major Whirlpool competitor, but the department leadership declined to try to block the sale. Electrolux is based in Stockholm, and the deal would be its largest acquisition ever. Electrolux is ranked as the world’s second biggest home appliance maker after Whirlpool. GE CEO Jeff Immelt is trying to reposition GE into a more focused conglomerate that manufactures and services big, complex equipment such as aircraft engines, locomotives, medical imaging machines and oil and gas drilling equipment. It sold NBCUniversal to Comcast Corp. and also sold its insurance operations, spun off its consumer credit card business into a new company called Synchrony Financial, agreed to sell its GE Capital lending business and most of its GE Capital Real Estate unit and said earlier this month that it will sell its private equity business. Shares of GE rose slightly Wednesday, closing up 9 cents to $26.66.