More middle-aged women being treated for acneLee County student ran up and hit teacher in head, report shows
FORT MYERS More middle-aged women being treated for acne You probably thought you broke up with it after high school, but acne is rearing it’s ugly blackheads in adult women.
Lee County student ran up and hit teacher in head, report shows The report says a 13-year-old student ran up and smacked a teacher in the head because multiple classmates offered him money to do so.
Collier Planning Commission continues discussion for apartments near Fiddler’s Creek The developer of fiddler’s creek wants to build hundreds of luxury apartments on a slice of a 600 acre-plus property known as section 29.
CAPE CORAL Fatigue sets in for third day of FEMA hearings Flying several hours to come to a FEMA code compliance hearing in Cape Coral is the reality for John Gasparini from Maryland.
Prescription drug shortages lead to higher prices There are currently more than 250 medications on the nation’s drug shortage list, according to the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists. The organization says 2023 marked the worst year for shortages in about a decade.
Mental health resources to help children Here are some resources to help you navigate the mental health system when it comes to help for children. Park Royal Park Royal does not have in-patient options for youth; however, the facility’s launched a new intensive outpatient program for 14 to 17-year-olds. It typically last several weeks or months, and offers three to five […]
NAPLES Video: FWC releases bobcat after rehab stint at Naples Zoo Wildlife officials released a bobcat back into the wild after recovering from a broken leg at Naples Zoo for eight weeks.
Single-member vs. at-large voting debate intensifies in Lee County Three members of Southwest Florida’s state Legislature delegation hosted a public forum May 1 at Lehigh Acres Municipal Services Improvement District, established by the state in 2015.
Unsolved: sawfish deaths rise during Florida Keys mystery More endangered smalltooth sawfish deaths were reported in the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission’s weekly report.
Emails show beginnings, contradictions of South Seas resort amendment South Seas resort ownership group’s engineer proposed a land-use amendment for Lee County’s government at least six months before the first public discussions and at least seven weeks before the county’s official timeline began, emails between the resort’s representatives and county show.
ALVA SR 31: a dangerous road and persistent safety concern State Road 31 proves hazardous once again, with a recent fatal crash highlighting ongoing safety concerns. The road — particularly the stretch at the Lee/Charlotte county line — has seen numerous crashes, including Wednesday’s incident involving a 19-year-old who died after crashing with a car hauler. The Florida Highway Patrol has not released the victim’s […]
NORTH FORT MYERS Lee County deputy subdues convicted felon with Taser at North Fort Myers Walmart Lee County deputies used a Taser on a man after they raced through a North Fort Myers Walmart searching for him.
FORT MYERS 2 posing as Target Corporate employees steal over $6K at Fort Myers Target SWFL Crime Stoppers seeks information on two men who allegedly claimed to be employees of Target Corporate and stole over $6,000 at Target.
Punta Gorda cosiders fate of historic A.C. Freeman House It was built by politician and businessman Augustus C. Freeman whose name the house bears, and it was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.
CAPE CORAL Man arrested for armed robbery in Cape Coral The Cape Coral Police Department has arrested a man for armed robbery and giving a fake name to law enforcement.
FORT MYERS More middle-aged women being treated for acne You probably thought you broke up with it after high school, but acne is rearing it’s ugly blackheads in adult women.
Lee County student ran up and hit teacher in head, report shows The report says a 13-year-old student ran up and smacked a teacher in the head because multiple classmates offered him money to do so.
Collier Planning Commission continues discussion for apartments near Fiddler’s Creek The developer of fiddler’s creek wants to build hundreds of luxury apartments on a slice of a 600 acre-plus property known as section 29.
CAPE CORAL Fatigue sets in for third day of FEMA hearings Flying several hours to come to a FEMA code compliance hearing in Cape Coral is the reality for John Gasparini from Maryland.
Prescription drug shortages lead to higher prices There are currently more than 250 medications on the nation’s drug shortage list, according to the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists. The organization says 2023 marked the worst year for shortages in about a decade.
Mental health resources to help children Here are some resources to help you navigate the mental health system when it comes to help for children. Park Royal Park Royal does not have in-patient options for youth; however, the facility’s launched a new intensive outpatient program for 14 to 17-year-olds. It typically last several weeks or months, and offers three to five […]
NAPLES Video: FWC releases bobcat after rehab stint at Naples Zoo Wildlife officials released a bobcat back into the wild after recovering from a broken leg at Naples Zoo for eight weeks.
Single-member vs. at-large voting debate intensifies in Lee County Three members of Southwest Florida’s state Legislature delegation hosted a public forum May 1 at Lehigh Acres Municipal Services Improvement District, established by the state in 2015.
Unsolved: sawfish deaths rise during Florida Keys mystery More endangered smalltooth sawfish deaths were reported in the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission’s weekly report.
Emails show beginnings, contradictions of South Seas resort amendment South Seas resort ownership group’s engineer proposed a land-use amendment for Lee County’s government at least six months before the first public discussions and at least seven weeks before the county’s official timeline began, emails between the resort’s representatives and county show.
ALVA SR 31: a dangerous road and persistent safety concern State Road 31 proves hazardous once again, with a recent fatal crash highlighting ongoing safety concerns. The road — particularly the stretch at the Lee/Charlotte county line — has seen numerous crashes, including Wednesday’s incident involving a 19-year-old who died after crashing with a car hauler. The Florida Highway Patrol has not released the victim’s […]
NORTH FORT MYERS Lee County deputy subdues convicted felon with Taser at North Fort Myers Walmart Lee County deputies used a Taser on a man after they raced through a North Fort Myers Walmart searching for him.
FORT MYERS 2 posing as Target Corporate employees steal over $6K at Fort Myers Target SWFL Crime Stoppers seeks information on two men who allegedly claimed to be employees of Target Corporate and stole over $6,000 at Target.
Punta Gorda cosiders fate of historic A.C. Freeman House It was built by politician and businessman Augustus C. Freeman whose name the house bears, and it was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.
CAPE CORAL Man arrested for armed robbery in Cape Coral The Cape Coral Police Department has arrested a man for armed robbery and giving a fake name to law enforcement.
Photo via CNN. Facebook is scrambling, once again, to address the trustworthiness of news shared on its platform. A week after announcing that posts from news outlets and other brands will be deprioritized from users’ news feeds, the social media site says that where news appears, items from “trusted sources” will be given preference over other content. What defines a “trusted source,” however, will be left to its users. In a statement posted to his Facebook page, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said: “We considered asking outside experts, which would take the decision out of our hands but would likely not solve the objectivity problem. Or we could ask you — the community — and have your feedback determine the ranking.” “We decided that having the community determine which sources are broadly trusted would be most objective,” he said. This appears to be a highly questionable tactic. Previously, Facebook tasked unpaid third party partners to alert users to questionable news content on the platform. Despite that assistance, or perhaps because of it, these newly-informed users clicked on fake news more aggressively, prompting Facebook to abandon its efforts to flag it in the first place. Now, those very same users are being polled to define trustworthy news sources. To say that the initiative has been met with cynicism by Facebook-watchers would be to dramatically understate things. It's weird because I could have sworn that this entire crisis came about because Facebook users were unable to accurately judge the trustworthiness of news in their timelines. — Tom Gara (@tomgara) January 19, 2018 Facebook: we're leaving the deciding of what's credible news up to the masses, ok? the masses: *not paying attention bc too busy gargling colorful laundry poison* — Charlie Warzel (@cwarzel) January 19, 2018 facebook spent the past three years gaslighting the entire country and breaking everyone's brains, and now that we’re all ruined and incapable of assessing reality, facebook has decided that this is the time to let the shrieking idiots take the wheel https://t.co/04jfTAWK3k pic.twitter.com/vjGzJX10B1 — Ashley Feinberg (ashleyfeinberg.bsky.social) (@ashleyfeinberg) January 19, 2018 The move comes as marketing consultance Edelman prepares to release its annual “Trust Barometer” report, an analysis of how much trust the public places in organizations, platforms and entities. Its 2017 report showed that trust in media had plummeted, as fake news rose in prominence, and as the role of fake news — its spread facilitated by Facebook and other platforms — was thought to have had an impact on the 2016 U.S. election. That link has resulted in Facebook’s treatment of news coming under constant scrutiny in 2017. Facebook has historically shied away from making value judgements about the content shared on the platform, insisting that it is not a publisher, nor a media company — prompting commentators to accuse it of abdicating its responsibility as a platform, its denomination of choice. Despite that, CEO Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged that once again, his company won’t be deciding which sources are trustworthy or not, or pouring any financial or staffing resources into doing so. Facebook will again punt the ultimate responsibility to users to define what they see, polling them about their trust in a variety of news sources. Ultimately, said Zuckerberg, this will help the company determine what’s a broadly trustworthy source and what isn’t. It will also insulate Facebook from taking the responsibility of promoting certain outlets, and thus suppressing others. Seeing Zuckerberg make the announcement on his own Facebook page is also significant. While he hasn’t gone to Capitol Hill to publicly testify about how his service was abused, he has made it his goal to spend this year fixing issues that have spread on his service like hate and abuse. He said his goal is “making sure that time spent on Facebook is time well spent.” The company declined to make Zuckerberg available for an interview. A spokesman said that the goal is not to punish any one news organization (the company doesn’t plan to release publisher’s scores), but rather to show people more from their favorite sources, as well as trusted sources. “My hope is that this update about trusted news and last week’s update about meaningful interactions will help make time on Facebook time well spent,” he wrote Friday.