FORT MYERS SHORES Alligator carcasses have been popping up in Fort Myers canals The most recent carcass found was in the Caribbean Canal in Fort Myers Shores, the body of a gator with its head, tail and feet gone.
FORT MYERS High school football camp kicks off High school football teams all over southwest Florida hit the ground running for day one of fall camp today, including two of Collier County’s strongest programs.
FORT MYERS BEACH SWFL remains hopeful yet cautious in the face of potential tropical system With peak hurricane season on the horizon and activity bubbling in the Atlantic, the wave we see on the satellite has southwest Florida’s full attention.
NAPLES Community reacts to drop ceiling falling in at La Trattoria in Naples They are not sure when the restaurant is opening back up, but there are signs on the door that say the building is unsafe to occupy.
FORT MYERS An inside look at LCSO’s sniper training The Lee County Sheriff’s Office’s snipers in the special operations unit train for every situation.
SOUTHWEST FLORIDA Blood test to screen for colon cancer now available Inside this box is a blood test kit called ‘shield,’ which could literally change the course of colorectal cancer screening for millions of people.
Dog rescued at sea off Fort Myers Beach by yacht’s crew A dog was rescued after being found paddling a mile and a half off the shore of the beach. A couple spotted the stranded pup while on a dinner cruise between Fort Myers Beach and the Lighthouse Beach on Sanibel.
MARCO ISLAND ‘Don’t you have something better to do?’ Marco Island Vice Chairman arrested for DUI Marco Island Vice Chairman, Erik Brechnitz is facing DUI charges after police found him asleep in his vehicle in the parking garage of 5000 Royal Marco Way.
SOUTHWEST FLORIDA Miracle moment: Father and son celebrate beating cancer Blake Janik and his dad, John, have a lot in common: A love for superheroes, genetics, and a shared battle with cancer.
FORT MYERS Cruising through repairs on the Caloosahatchee Bridge Project FDOT offered a view from above of its progress on the Caloosahatchee Bridge Project.
FORT MYERS Fort Myers Police advise to avoid flooded roads as heavy rain looms The threat of flooding caused by heavy rain is a well-known one for Palm Beach Boulevard in Fort Myers.
WASHINGTON (AP) Trump agrees to be interviewed as part of an investigation into his assassination attempt, FBI says Former President Donald Trump has agreed to be interviewed by the FBI as part of an investigation into his attempted assassination in Pennsylvania earlier this month, a special agent said on Monday in disclosing how the gunman prior to the shooting had researched mass attacks and explosive devices.
Lee County Former LCSO deputy accused of coercing drivers for bribes Former LCSO Deputy Tyrese Jackson is accused of pulling people over and getting money out of drivers he didn’t believe would report him.
Naples Motorsports acquires old Rooms To Go showroom Naples Motorsports has acquired Rooms To Go’s former showroom on U.S. 41 in Naples, a move that will triple the size of the luxury and exotic car dealership.
NAPLES Plane forced to make emergency landing at Naples Airport A plane had to make an emergency landing at Naples Airport late Monday morning.
FORT MYERS SHORES Alligator carcasses have been popping up in Fort Myers canals The most recent carcass found was in the Caribbean Canal in Fort Myers Shores, the body of a gator with its head, tail and feet gone.
FORT MYERS High school football camp kicks off High school football teams all over southwest Florida hit the ground running for day one of fall camp today, including two of Collier County’s strongest programs.
FORT MYERS BEACH SWFL remains hopeful yet cautious in the face of potential tropical system With peak hurricane season on the horizon and activity bubbling in the Atlantic, the wave we see on the satellite has southwest Florida’s full attention.
NAPLES Community reacts to drop ceiling falling in at La Trattoria in Naples They are not sure when the restaurant is opening back up, but there are signs on the door that say the building is unsafe to occupy.
FORT MYERS An inside look at LCSO’s sniper training The Lee County Sheriff’s Office’s snipers in the special operations unit train for every situation.
SOUTHWEST FLORIDA Blood test to screen for colon cancer now available Inside this box is a blood test kit called ‘shield,’ which could literally change the course of colorectal cancer screening for millions of people.
Dog rescued at sea off Fort Myers Beach by yacht’s crew A dog was rescued after being found paddling a mile and a half off the shore of the beach. A couple spotted the stranded pup while on a dinner cruise between Fort Myers Beach and the Lighthouse Beach on Sanibel.
MARCO ISLAND ‘Don’t you have something better to do?’ Marco Island Vice Chairman arrested for DUI Marco Island Vice Chairman, Erik Brechnitz is facing DUI charges after police found him asleep in his vehicle in the parking garage of 5000 Royal Marco Way.
SOUTHWEST FLORIDA Miracle moment: Father and son celebrate beating cancer Blake Janik and his dad, John, have a lot in common: A love for superheroes, genetics, and a shared battle with cancer.
FORT MYERS Cruising through repairs on the Caloosahatchee Bridge Project FDOT offered a view from above of its progress on the Caloosahatchee Bridge Project.
FORT MYERS Fort Myers Police advise to avoid flooded roads as heavy rain looms The threat of flooding caused by heavy rain is a well-known one for Palm Beach Boulevard in Fort Myers.
WASHINGTON (AP) Trump agrees to be interviewed as part of an investigation into his assassination attempt, FBI says Former President Donald Trump has agreed to be interviewed by the FBI as part of an investigation into his attempted assassination in Pennsylvania earlier this month, a special agent said on Monday in disclosing how the gunman prior to the shooting had researched mass attacks and explosive devices.
Lee County Former LCSO deputy accused of coercing drivers for bribes Former LCSO Deputy Tyrese Jackson is accused of pulling people over and getting money out of drivers he didn’t believe would report him.
Naples Motorsports acquires old Rooms To Go showroom Naples Motorsports has acquired Rooms To Go’s former showroom on U.S. 41 in Naples, a move that will triple the size of the luxury and exotic car dealership.
NAPLES Plane forced to make emergency landing at Naples Airport A plane had to make an emergency landing at Naples Airport late Monday morning.
MGN WASHINGTON (AP) – Meteorologists may soon be able to predict likelihood of extreme heat in the Eastern United States as much as 50 days in advance, according to a new study. A team of scientists looking for links between heat waves and the water temperatures in the north central Pacific found a correlation strong enough they said it could be used to make “skillful prediction” of extra warm and dry weather about seven weeks before the temperatures rise. And they will start trying to forecast Eastern heat waves starting in May, said climate scientist Karen McKinnon, lead author of a study published Monday in Nature Geoscience. Such warnings can help farmers, utilities and big cities prepare for periods when they’ll need more irrigation, more electrical power generation, and more cooling centers for the poor and elderly, experts said. “There are many possible health, economic and other impacts of these hot temperatures and advanced warning can only help,” said Jonathan Overpeck of the University of Arizona, who wasn’t part of the study but praised it. The team is looking at Eastern U.S. temperatures when at least 80 weather stations are at least 11.7 degrees warmer than normal for that day – basically, the top 15 percent of warmest summer peak temperatures going back to 1982. The key is a large area in the Pacific north of Hawaii (which is not where El Nino forms). When the southern part of the region is unusually warm and the northeast of that region is unusually cold, the conditions are what McKinnon and colleagues call the Pacific Extreme Pattern. They looked at that pattern in summers from 1982 through 2015 and found that when they saw the most glaring PEP signal, the odds of a heat wave increase to one in four at 50 days out. By 40 days out, the odds have increased to one in two. What’s likely happening is a train of waves moving from the PEP region to the United States with high pressure systems parked over the Eastern United States. High pressure systems in summer usually bring clear, dry and warm weather. The scientists concentrated on the East – basically east of the Mississippi River, plus Iowa and minus Florida – because heat waves tend to hit the region as a whole, and that’s an area where high heat and little rain have consequences for farming and for a large population. The team also only looked at the peak 60 days in summer, which in a leap year like 2016 run from June 23 to Aug. 21. “The physical mechanisms underpinning the results of their study make sense,” said Victor Gensini at the College of DuPage, who is working on long-range tornado forecasting but wasn’t part of this team. “It is exciting that there is some skill demonstrated as far out as 50 days as this also gives us hope for linkages to other extreme weather events.” ___ Online: Nature Geoscience: http://www.nature.com/ngeo