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Deadly crash on State Road 29 in Hendry County Authorities are at the scene of a deadly crash on State Road 29 in Hendry County on Friday afternoon.
Celebrating Free Comic Book Day in SWFL JP Sports store manager Jonathan Powell said this is a generational event that brings families together to reminisce on comics and other hobby-related knickknacks.
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Fixing failed back surgeries More than a million and a half people in the U.S. undergo back surgery each year. However, classic back surgery has one of the highest failure rates of any surgery.
WINK NEWS Getting an inside look at the FEMA discount controversy Picking up the pieces after Hurricane Ian has been difficult for many and moving on can impact our wallets.
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LEHIGH ACRES Frustrated Lehigh parents want action after violent school fights go viral online Violence at a Lehigh Acres Middle school was captured and posted online.
Turtle Club beachfront restaurant relaunches in Naples After a series of private friends and family events this week, The Turtle Club will reopen May 5 and begin taking reservations again May 6.
LEHIGH ACRES Chaotic lake getting fence and security Now, with all the negative attention it has gotten, some think putting up a fence is a great way to keep that bad activity out.
CAPE CORAL What we learned about Cape Coral’s water crisis after a ride along On Friday, WINK News got to ride along to see just what people are doing that could be wasting water.
FORT MYERS Students affected by COVID-19 able to graduate for the first time For many young people, COVID stripped away one of their greatest rites of passage: graduation.
Deadly crash on State Road 29 in Hendry County Authorities are at the scene of a deadly crash on State Road 29 in Hendry County on Friday afternoon.
Celebrating Free Comic Book Day in SWFL JP Sports store manager Jonathan Powell said this is a generational event that brings families together to reminisce on comics and other hobby-related knickknacks.
FORT MYERS Group rescues dogs before getting put down in Lee County Our animal shelters are packed with amazing puppies who have the sole desire to be loved.
FORT MYERS FGCU student beats all odds and is able to graduate Nearly four years ago, Marisa Manning had her heart set on going to Florida Gulf Coast University but never thought she’d find her passion for studying parasites.
FORT MYERS Victim in MLK Blvd. shooting identified as social media influencer The victim of the Martin Luther King Boulevard shooting has been identified as a local social media influencer.
FORT MYERS Could a Ferris wheel in downtown Fort Myers work? Right now, there are talks to bring a Ferris wheel to downtown Fort Myers, but several things are still up in the air.
LITTLE HICKORY BAY Improving ‘Hell’s Gate’ safety, a notoriously dangerous waterway for boaters A push to make an area known as “Hell’s Gate” safer since it’s a dangerous stretch of water with several blind corners within Little Hickory Bay.
Fixing failed back surgeries More than a million and a half people in the U.S. undergo back surgery each year. However, classic back surgery has one of the highest failure rates of any surgery.
WINK NEWS Getting an inside look at the FEMA discount controversy Picking up the pieces after Hurricane Ian has been difficult for many and moving on can impact our wallets.
FGCU FGCU pitcher Dylan Wolff playing for hometown team after labrum injury FGCU pitcher Dylan Wolff is living the dream playing for the hometown team after he overcame a labrum injury.
LEHIGH ACRES Frustrated Lehigh parents want action after violent school fights go viral online Violence at a Lehigh Acres Middle school was captured and posted online.
Turtle Club beachfront restaurant relaunches in Naples After a series of private friends and family events this week, The Turtle Club will reopen May 5 and begin taking reservations again May 6.
MGN WASHINGTON (AP) – From his cell at the U.S. Penitentiary in Florence, Colorado, Antoine Bruce has had plenty of time to file or join 19 lawsuits and appeals that challenge prison conditions or claim civil rights violations. What he doesn’t have is money to pay all those court filing fees. The Supreme Court on Wednesday considered how much Bruce and thousands of other indigent inmates should have to pay from their skimpy prison bank accounts for the cost of bringing multiple cases that some consider frivolous. At issue is a 1996 federal statute that requires prisoners to make monthly installment payments of at least 20 percent of their prison income until the court fee is eventually paid in full. The goal was to discourage inmates from clogging courts with too many cases, but not erect a barrier to claims that may have merit. But the law isn’t clear on how the payment applies to more than one case. Is it 20 percent for each case? Or is fee collection capped at 20 percent, regardless of how many cases an inmate has filed? If the government is right, then a prisoner who files five lawsuits can have his bank account drawn down to practically nothing each month. Federal inmates earn as little as 23 cents or as much as $1.15 an hour from prison jobs. Court filing fees are $400 for federal cases. Lower courts are divided on the issue, and the justices hearing arguments in Bruce’s case seemed to think the law was not written clearly. Chief Justice John Roberts told Justice Department lawyer Nicole Saharsky that the government’s position defending the case-by-case approach seemed too harsh. He pointed out that prisoners use their meager income to make family phone calls, buy stamps for letters or buy books. “And you’re going to take the last, you know, whatever, so that someone who’s in there for 20 years can’t even buy a book?” Saharsky said the law wouldn’t be effective in deterring frivolous suits if prisoners can file as many cases as they want, but only have a maximum of 20 percent a month taken from bank accounts. “Congress wanted inmates who were filing more lawsuits to pay more,” she said. That made sense to Justice Antonin Scalia, who said the law would be ineffective if it didn’t apply to every case. He said it’s a prisoner’s “own fault if they keep filing baseless lawsuits.” Arguing for Bruce, attorney Anthony Shelley said there are other deterrents, such as a “three strikes” law that prevents prisoners from filing new lawsuits after three cases have been dismissed as frivolous. He also said the numbers can be misleading because prisoners who file a single case face new fees every time they appeal, which can sometimes leave them with five or more separate charges. Several of Bruce’s lawsuits have already been dismissed as frivolous, malicious or failing to state a claim. A brief filed by the Southern Poverty Law Center and other prisoner advocates says holding prisoners to a lower financial burden is consistent with the country’s historic commitment to giving everyone access to the courts. Twenty states have sided with the federal government, noting that the vast majority of inmates are in state prisons. The states say prisoners should bear “a marginal cost” for each lawsuit filed. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg noted that Bruce, who was convicted in 2004, may never pay all the fees he owes because he’ll be released from prison at some point. Bruce is serving a 15-year sentence for armed kidnapping and assault and is set for release on June 11, 2018. A decision is expected by the end of June.