The Weather Authority: Sun, clouds, humidity, rain – it’s all in your weekend forecastChaotic lake getting fence and security
Southwest Florida The Weather Authority: Sun, clouds, humidity, rain – it’s all in your weekend forecast Saturday afternoon will be hot and humid, with a mix of sun and clouds.
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.
Southwest Florida The Weather Authority: Sun, clouds, humidity, rain – it’s all in your weekend forecast Saturday afternoon will be hot and humid, with a mix of sun and clouds.
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.
MGN CORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP) – Mark Richt was serious when he talked about taking a break from coaching in the days that followed his unceremonious departure from Georgia. That is, until the text messages. Hundreds from former players arrived within days and each had a similar sentiment. The players were thanking him and saying how the lessons they learned from him still apply to their lives. Plus, in many cases, they added that they wouldn’t mind seeing back in Miami colors again. “If I didn’t lose my vigor to begin with,” Richt said, “those messages are what reinvigorated me and what motivated me to take this job.” Now the work really begins. The first big day of Richt’s tenure at Miami is Wednesday, the annual signing day. There will be about two dozen incoming freshmen in the group. Some are already enrolled at Miami. “If you’re going to take another job, you want to take a job that gives you a chance to have success,” Richt said in an interview with The Associated Press. “When you look at Miami, it’s my alma mater, it’s a program that has shown it can do it in the past, and it has a recruiting base. It has a lot of the ingredients that you need to have success. And this feels right.” Richt was at Georgia for 15 seasons, won an average of nearly 10 games per year and it still wasn’t enough. Officially, it was “mutually agreed” upon that he would step down as coach of the Bulldogs. In reality, he was shown the door. The timing couldn’t have been better for Miami, and the 1982 graduate of the school was a Hurricane again within days. “To Mark Richt, being a football coach is not his greatest accomplishment,” said Miami radio analyst Don Bailey Jr., who played with Richt in college. “To him, the accomplishment is the player. It’s leadership. It’s his ability to change people’s lives and build and take young men and get them pointed in the right direction. I guess really his best attribute is his example, the journey of his life and where he’s been and how he got here again.” Richt’s football life has been shaped by some prominent coaches. He played at Miami for Howard Schnellenberger, had a brief stint with the Miami Dolphins under Don Shula, then got his first chance at coaching at Florida State from Bobby Bowden. There’s some of each in his current style. But Bowden – an openly spiritual man – had perhaps the most impact on Richt’s life. Back in 1986, around when Richt was starting on Bowden’s staff, a Florida State player named Pablo Lopez was shot and killed. Bowden pointed to Lopez’s empty chair the next day in a team meeting. “Coach Bowden said, ‘If that was you last night instead of Pablo, do you know where you spend eternity?'” Richt recalled. “And that’s when it hit me like a Mack truck.” Bowden said later that he didn’t know if Richt always listened in those meetings. The very next day, Richt went into Bowden’s office to ask about the gospel and has devoted his life to Christianity since. “I worry about what God thinks, not what people think,” Richt said. “I care what people think, but I’m driven by what God wants me to do. I see my life through the filter of basically when I lay my head on the pillow at night, do I think God would be pleased with what I did that day? That’s the approach I’m taking here.” And on Wednesday, his fingerprints truly get put on the team for the first time. “My wife and I, we’re going to put our lives into this program,” Richt said. “We love it. Whether it’s the alma mater or not – and alma mater does mean a lot to me – it’s where we’ve chosen to try to continue to bless the lives of the people here, the players, the coaches, the community. Anything we can do to serve these people and this place, that’s what we’re going to do.”