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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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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.
Gage Skidmore/ Flickr/ MGN CINCINNATI (AP) – Celebrating new success in fundraising, Donald Trump says he took in $51 million for his campaign and allied Republicans in recent weeks, a huge jump from his previously lackluster figures though still well shy of Hillary Clinton’s money machine. Trump also appeared to be moving closer to choosing a vice presidential running mate Wednesday, though two senators who had been under consideration said, “No, thanks.” Bob Corker of Tennessee and Joni Ernst of Iowa dropped out of the running, Corker telling reporters that “there are better ways for me to serve” and that he cherished his position as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Yet another potential running mate, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich of Georgia, appeared with Trump Wednesday night in Ohio. Trump celebrated his campaign fundraising even before announcing it, tweeting Tuesday night: “Raised a lot of money for the Republican Party. There will be a big gasp when the figures are announced in the morning. Lots of support! Win.” Gasps or not, the total was a big improvement from May. Trump’s campaign said it raised $26 million online in June, a small portion of which will go to the Republican National Committee, as agreed to previously. Additionally, Trump and the RNC raised $25 million during 22 events in June and the final week of May, the campaign release said. The campaign did not immediately clarify how much money came in June, or how much went to his campaign versus Republican committees. In May, his campaign raised a little over $3 million from donors and the RNC pulled in about $11 million, according to Federal Election Commission filings. Still, he was well behind Clinton, who announced last week that she had raised almost $70 million in June for her campaign and Democratic partners. That included about $40 million that went directly into her campaign coffers. The Clinton campaign’s access to cash has enabled it to spend tens of millions of dollars more than Trump to build up voter contact operations and advertisements ahead of the November election. Clinton’s campaign has aired more than 22,000 commercials in battleground states in the past month, according to Kantar Media’s campaign advertising tracker. Trump’s campaign has aired none. The billionaire businessman began his quest for the White House largely by paying his own way – and disparaging his Republican competitors as beholden to big donors. Yet as the general election contest began this spring, Trump said he would rely on the same kinds of donors he had previously called puppeteers. Ever since, his campaign and Republican partners have been working furiously to raise money even as he has remained publicly dismissive of its importance. In the meantime, he has been “road testing” potential running mates. Corker had appeared with Trump at a rally in North Carolina Tuesday night, and Ernst had met with him in New Jersey on Monday. Trump has previously mused that he might announce his running mate with a showbiz-style reveal at the party’s convention this month in Cleveland. While he is now expected to announce his choice before the convention, the public appearances with possible choices seem a bit like the high-stakes competition he fostered in previous careers as reality television star and beauty pageant owner. Trump said in a phone interview with Fox News Channel Wednesday that he’s now looking at 10 people for the job, including two generals. “A lot of people are calling me that you wouldn’t even think about. They want to have their names thrown into the hat,” he said. At a Tuesday evening rally, Trump asked Corker to join him briefly onstage, where the two men were a study in contrasts. Corker stood at least a foot shorter and spoke in slow, deliberate phrases instead of Trump’s rapid-fire braggadocio. “The rallies that I have back home aren’t quite like this,” Corker told the crowd. “Pretty cool.” Gingrich appeared far more comfortable onstage Wednesday night in Cincinnati, delivering an eight-minute introduction of Trump and then beaming offstage when the presumptive nominee pledged that, if he was elected, “Newt Gingrich would have a role in the government in one form or another.” “I am not saying it’s Newt,” Trump said of the VP search. “But if it’s Newt, nobody is beating him in the debates.” Trump’s praise of Gingrich came during an otherwise scattershot speech that delivered a well-organized attack on Clinton’s email server investigation but then careened to more than a half-dozen complaints about the media coverage of his campaign – and featured the candidate swatting an insect on the podium while bellowing, “I don’t like mosquitoes!” Ernst, meanwhile, is now slated to address the convention on national security. Four years ago, Mitt Romney held meetings with prospective candidates in the privacy of his lakeside home in New Hampshire in the weeks leading up to the Republican convention. Before the choice of Paul Ryan was announced, Romney’s team had the Wisconsin congressman fly into Hartford, Connecticut, instead of Romney’s Boston headquarters to avoid detection. They dispatched an aide’s son to pick up Ryan, who wore a baseball hat and sunglasses to disguise his identity. “The first significant action a presidential nominee takes in putting together his or her administration is selecting a VP,” said Beth Myers, who helmed Romney’s search. “So it’s fair for the voters to look hard at both how a VP is selected as well as who is selected.”