Hot and dry Monday afternoon before isolated storms pop up this eveningCaught on Camera: Firefighters respond to dumpster fire at FGCU
WINK NEWS Hot and dry Monday afternoon before isolated storms pop up this evening On monday morning, the weather is starting mild and humid with temperatures in the upper 60s and lower 70s.
FORT MYERS Caught on Camera: Firefighters respond to dumpster fire at FGCU San Carlos Park Fire District responded to a dumpster fire Sunday afternoon.
FORT MYERS FGCU students affected by Covid celebrate first commencement ceremony Graduation is a right of passage from school to the real world, but for these students, reality hit them in 2020.
PUNTA GORDA Motorcycle crash leaves 1 dead One person has died after a motorcycle crash in Charlotte County.
LEE COUNTY Lee Deputies work to track down transient sex offenders who fail to register WINK News Anchor Corey Lazar goes on patrol with Lee County Deputies in search of transient sex offenders who don’t register.
National Hurricane Preparedness Week: Know your risk Hurricane season starts on June 1st, but the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has designated the week of May 5 through May 11 as National Hurricane Preparedness Week. Each day, Meteorologist Lauren Kreidler will be highlighting ways to stay prepared ahead of this year’s hurricane season.
Southwest Florida The Weather Authority: Stay alert – chance of showers and storms on Sunday Hot, humid, and more rain for parts of Southwest Florida on Sunday.
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.
The Weather Authority: A wet Saturday evening as storms move through Southwest Florida A rainy Saturday evening across much of southwest Florida.
FORT MYERS Lee Health Touch-A-Truck event educates families on Trauma Awareness On Saturday morning, sirens were ringing to celebrate Lee Health Trauma Center’s 30 years of service and to provide the public with trauma education and prevention methods.
SOUTHWEST FLORIDA (CBS) CDC says bird flu viruses “pose pandemic potential,” cites major knowledge gaps Bird flu continues to appear to pose a “low risk to the general public” for now, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says. But the agency’s scientists ran into roadblocks investigating a human case of this “pandemic potential” virus this year, they said in a new report.
DOWNTOWN FORT MYERS Bay Street Yard set to open in late May A new place to hang out in Downtown Fort Myers is opening this spring.
Aetna agrees to settle lawsuit over fertility coverage for LGBTQ+ customers Aetna has agreed to settle a lawsuit that accused the health insurer of discriminating against LGBTQ+ customers in need of fertility treatment.
SOUTHWEST FLORIDA WINK Neighborhood Watch: Robbery, Pawn Shops, and Child Porn This week’s segment of Wink Neighborhood Watch features an armed robber, fraud at a pawn shop, and possession of child pornography.
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.
WINK NEWS Hot and dry Monday afternoon before isolated storms pop up this evening On monday morning, the weather is starting mild and humid with temperatures in the upper 60s and lower 70s.
FORT MYERS Caught on Camera: Firefighters respond to dumpster fire at FGCU San Carlos Park Fire District responded to a dumpster fire Sunday afternoon.
FORT MYERS FGCU students affected by Covid celebrate first commencement ceremony Graduation is a right of passage from school to the real world, but for these students, reality hit them in 2020.
PUNTA GORDA Motorcycle crash leaves 1 dead One person has died after a motorcycle crash in Charlotte County.
LEE COUNTY Lee Deputies work to track down transient sex offenders who fail to register WINK News Anchor Corey Lazar goes on patrol with Lee County Deputies in search of transient sex offenders who don’t register.
National Hurricane Preparedness Week: Know your risk Hurricane season starts on June 1st, but the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has designated the week of May 5 through May 11 as National Hurricane Preparedness Week. Each day, Meteorologist Lauren Kreidler will be highlighting ways to stay prepared ahead of this year’s hurricane season.
Southwest Florida The Weather Authority: Stay alert – chance of showers and storms on Sunday Hot, humid, and more rain for parts of Southwest Florida on Sunday.
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.
The Weather Authority: A wet Saturday evening as storms move through Southwest Florida A rainy Saturday evening across much of southwest Florida.
FORT MYERS Lee Health Touch-A-Truck event educates families on Trauma Awareness On Saturday morning, sirens were ringing to celebrate Lee Health Trauma Center’s 30 years of service and to provide the public with trauma education and prevention methods.
SOUTHWEST FLORIDA (CBS) CDC says bird flu viruses “pose pandemic potential,” cites major knowledge gaps Bird flu continues to appear to pose a “low risk to the general public” for now, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says. But the agency’s scientists ran into roadblocks investigating a human case of this “pandemic potential” virus this year, they said in a new report.
DOWNTOWN FORT MYERS Bay Street Yard set to open in late May A new place to hang out in Downtown Fort Myers is opening this spring.
Aetna agrees to settle lawsuit over fertility coverage for LGBTQ+ customers Aetna has agreed to settle a lawsuit that accused the health insurer of discriminating against LGBTQ+ customers in need of fertility treatment.
SOUTHWEST FLORIDA WINK Neighborhood Watch: Robbery, Pawn Shops, and Child Porn This week’s segment of Wink Neighborhood Watch features an armed robber, fraud at a pawn shop, and possession of child pornography.
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.
FORT MYERS, Fla. – A second lawsuit has been filed against Zombicon organizers and the company that oversaw security for the event by a patron who was shot during the annual downtown Fort Myers gathering. The suit, filed on Wednesday by Kyle Garick Roberts, 20, against Pushing Daizes, Inc., Southwest Florida Security and Investigation, Inc., and the security company’s owner, Jesse P. Morgan, alleges that: Roberts had a “reasonable expectation” that a safe environment would be provided. Organizers had a duty to “exercise reasonable care” to maintain a safe event, including taking precautions “as reasonably necessary” to protect attendees “from criminal attacks which were reasonably foreseeable.” Organizers should’ve known that criminal acts were “likely” to happen unless they took “reasonable steps” to provide “proper and reasonable security” and prevent criminal acts from occurring. Organizers “breached their duty of reasonable care” to protect attendees by, among other things: Failing to provide adequate security. Failing to provide “competent and adequately trained” security guards. Failing to provide “additional security measures” when current security efforts were determined to be inadequate. Not “reasonably and effectively” utilizing security checkpoints, metal detectors and other security measures to protect attendees. Not reviewing area crime trends to determine security plans. Not implementing “adequate” security policies, measures and procedures to protect attendees. Roberts, who was shot in the hand, did not specify a payment amount but wanted compensation “for damages and any other such further relief this court deems just and proper,” including current and future medical costs. “There are things you cannot stop from happening,” said Scot Goldberg, Roberts’ attorney. “There’s incidents you cannot control, people do things. But what you can control is putting the people, the right people, in the right places, that are properly trained. It only takes an event and a fatality and people getting injured like my client to bring these shortcomings to bear.” Phone calls to Angeli Chin, the event organizer, her attorney and a lawyer for the security company were not immediately returned. Morgan, the security company owner, declined to comment. No arrests Roberts was one of six people shot after gunfire erupted during the Oct. 17, 2015 Halloween-themed event. Expavious Tyrell Taylor, 20, of Okeechobee, was killed outside Los Cabos Cantina on First Street. His grandmother filed a $5 million wrongful death suit against the organizers and security company in Nov. 2015, claiming security guards weren’t prepared to handle the 20,000 people in attendance and that they failed to check for weapons. No arrests have been made in the shootings. Kip Sinclair, the attorney representing the grandmother, previously said he also plans to file suit against the City of Fort Myers and the Fort Myers Police Department. Following the shootings, Morgan said he wanted to have more guards on duty that night but they were not available. There were 48 unarmed guards on duty for the event, he said. Up to 60 armed and unarmed security guards manned the event in the past. The Southwest Florida Security guards were supposed to control the flow of people at the perimeter of the event, but attendees trampled snow fences to get inside the perimeter. “Unfortunately at the barricades, we can’t have every single barricade manned, so people were just coming in through the barricades off the street,” Chin said following the shootings. “We had trained all of our entrance people not to allow any backpacks in or any realistic looking weapons in. They were asked to leave their backpacks, they were told to tell people in line that they had to leave their backpacks and their realistic looking weapons in their vehicles or just not come in.” Two months later, 115 security cameras were installed throughout downtown Fort Myers.