NAPLES Naples Zoo throws event for Golisano Children’s Hospital The Naples Zoo closed its doors to the public early Sunday and reopened only for a special group of children and their families.
CLEWISTON Law enforcement presence at Clewiston home According to the Hendry County Sheriff’s Office, there is a law enforcement presence at 1750 Hookers Point Road in Clewiston on Sunday afternoon.
Hendry County Sheriff’s Office to launch school safety program According to a Facebook post by the Hendry County Sheriff’s Office, they are set to launch a School Zone Speed Enforcement Program on Dec. 2.
TICE Man arrested for breaking into home, stabbing woman in Tice The Lee County Sheriff’s Office arrested a man on Sunday for breaking into a home and stabbing a woman.
FORT MYERS Southwest Florida’s RSW sees crowds surge after Thanksgiving weekend From our roads to our skies, millions of Americans are heading home from Thanksgiving celebrations.
WINK Neighborhood Watch: Home intrusion, kidnapping and grand theft This week’s segment of WINK Neighborhood Watch features a dog alerting to an intruder, a shop owner kidnapping and abusing a woman, and a man who stole two vehicles and damaged a fence.
Record breaking Atlantic hurricane season comes to an end Now that November has ended, so has the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season, which runs from June 1st to November 30th.
December begins with a mix of sun, clouds and low to mid-70s temps The Weather Authority said Sunday will start off cool and comfortable, with temperatures in the 50s under partly cloudy skies.
FORT MYERS Body found in water behind Fort Myers home Divers pulled a man out of a pond behind his home on Silver Birch Way in Fort Myers s early Saturday Afternoon.
FORT MYERS Supporting SWFL’s small businesses on Small Business Saturday For those of you looking to avoid the traffic nightmare that comes with Black Friday shopping, consider shopping small for Small Business Saturday.
Cooler weekend ahead: Highs in the 70s across SWFL The Weather Authority predicts a cooler afternoon ahead on Saturday with highs in the low 70s.
WINK NEWS 6 Southwest Florida football teams battle in regional finals Find out who is still standing after six Southwest Florida football teams competed in the regional finals of the FHSAA football playoffs.
lehigh acres Caught on Camera: Lehigh Acres man accused of shooting into vehicle, injuring driver The Lee County Sheriff’s Office has arrested a man who they said fired shots into a vehicle and injured a man in Lehigh Acres on Thanksgiving night.
CAPE CORAL Holiday Nights on the Lawn event brings festive fun to Cape Coral Sleigh bells ring and Cape Coral is listening! A huge crowd joined together at city hall for the Holiday Nights on the Lawn event.
ESTERO Black Friday traffic frustrates Estero shoppers Black Friday at Miromar Outlets turned into a nightmare as shoppers faced endless traffic jams.
NAPLES Naples Zoo throws event for Golisano Children’s Hospital The Naples Zoo closed its doors to the public early Sunday and reopened only for a special group of children and their families.
CLEWISTON Law enforcement presence at Clewiston home According to the Hendry County Sheriff’s Office, there is a law enforcement presence at 1750 Hookers Point Road in Clewiston on Sunday afternoon.
Hendry County Sheriff’s Office to launch school safety program According to a Facebook post by the Hendry County Sheriff’s Office, they are set to launch a School Zone Speed Enforcement Program on Dec. 2.
TICE Man arrested for breaking into home, stabbing woman in Tice The Lee County Sheriff’s Office arrested a man on Sunday for breaking into a home and stabbing a woman.
FORT MYERS Southwest Florida’s RSW sees crowds surge after Thanksgiving weekend From our roads to our skies, millions of Americans are heading home from Thanksgiving celebrations.
WINK Neighborhood Watch: Home intrusion, kidnapping and grand theft This week’s segment of WINK Neighborhood Watch features a dog alerting to an intruder, a shop owner kidnapping and abusing a woman, and a man who stole two vehicles and damaged a fence.
Record breaking Atlantic hurricane season comes to an end Now that November has ended, so has the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season, which runs from June 1st to November 30th.
December begins with a mix of sun, clouds and low to mid-70s temps The Weather Authority said Sunday will start off cool and comfortable, with temperatures in the 50s under partly cloudy skies.
FORT MYERS Body found in water behind Fort Myers home Divers pulled a man out of a pond behind his home on Silver Birch Way in Fort Myers s early Saturday Afternoon.
FORT MYERS Supporting SWFL’s small businesses on Small Business Saturday For those of you looking to avoid the traffic nightmare that comes with Black Friday shopping, consider shopping small for Small Business Saturday.
Cooler weekend ahead: Highs in the 70s across SWFL The Weather Authority predicts a cooler afternoon ahead on Saturday with highs in the low 70s.
WINK NEWS 6 Southwest Florida football teams battle in regional finals Find out who is still standing after six Southwest Florida football teams competed in the regional finals of the FHSAA football playoffs.
lehigh acres Caught on Camera: Lehigh Acres man accused of shooting into vehicle, injuring driver The Lee County Sheriff’s Office has arrested a man who they said fired shots into a vehicle and injured a man in Lehigh Acres on Thanksgiving night.
CAPE CORAL Holiday Nights on the Lawn event brings festive fun to Cape Coral Sleigh bells ring and Cape Coral is listening! A huge crowd joined together at city hall for the Holiday Nights on the Lawn event.
ESTERO Black Friday traffic frustrates Estero shoppers Black Friday at Miromar Outlets turned into a nightmare as shoppers faced endless traffic jams.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. (Credit: CBS News) Actor and activist George Takei is weighing in on the treatment of undocumented immigrants and backing Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s description of migrant detention centers as concentration camps. “I know what concentration camps are. I was inside two of them, in America. And yes, we are operating such camps again,” Takei wrote on Twitter Tuesday. Takei’s tweet comes after Ocasio-Cortez said in an Instagram live video that “The United States is running concentration camps on our southern border and that is exactly what they are.” I know what concentration camps are. I was inside two of them, in America. And yes, we are operating such camps again. — George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) June 19, 2019 Takei, who rose to fame in “Star Trek” and became a gay rights activist, spent part of his childhood held with his family at the Rohwer Relocation Center in Arkansas, an internment camp for Japanese-Americans during World War II. In an interview with the Television Academy, Takei opened up about life in the camp. “Childhood is amazing adaptable. By the time we went to the Rohwer camp in Arkansas, I was 5 years old,” he remembered. “The barbed wire fence, the guard tower … the machine guns, they became a normal part of my landscape.” “I learned recite the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag with the sight of a high guard tower and machine guns pointing at us,” he said. “I was too young to appreciate the irony as I recited the words, ‘With liberty and justice for all.'” In 2013, Takei traveled back to Rohwer with CBS News’ Michelle Miler. “We were all concentrated, densely concentrated,” he said. “We happened to look like the people that bombed Pearl Harbor, and put in prison camps simply because of our race.” He recalled how his family was forced out of their home at gunpoint and moved into their new “home” at Rohwer, which was a small, single room in a tar-paper barrack. Records at the National Archives show Takei, born Hosato G. Takei, and his family were transferred to the Rohwer camp after being held at the Santa Anita Assembly Center in California. The Trump administration announced earlier this month that another site used as an internment camp during WWII, Fort Sill in Oklahoma, will be adapted to shelter migrant children. Shortly after, Ocasio-Cortez went live on Instagram to share her concern and outrage about the detention centers. She recently doubled down on calling the centers “concentration camps,” tweeting on Wednesday: “We are calling these camps what they are because they fit squarely in an academic consensus and definition. History will be kind to those who stood up to this injustice. So say what you will. Kids are dying and I’m not here to make people feel comfortable about that.” My heroes are the ones who stood up when it wasn’t easy. Kids are dying in cages on our border. Families are being put in “freezers” & “dog pounds.” Years from now, people will look for the journalists, officials, & everyday people who stood up for what was right in real-time. — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) June 19, 2019 The controversial comments were ill received by many, with critics saying evoking the Holocaust was not an appropriate comparison. “Please @AOC do us all a favor and spend just a few minutes learning some actual history. 6 million Jews were exterminated in the Holocaust. You demean their memory and disgrace yourself with comments like this,” Republican Rep. Liz Cheney, the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, tweeted. “@AOC needs to stop trying to draw these crayon parallels between POTUS & Hitler!” Republican Rep. Lee Zeldin, who is Jewish, tweeted. And Republican Senator Lindsey Graham tweeted, “comparing the men and women serving our country to concentration camp guards do the Congress and country a great disservice.” Please @AOC do us all a favor and spend just a few minutes learning some actual history. 6 million Jews were exterminated in the Holocaust. You demean their memory and disgrace yourself with comments like this. https://t.co/NX5KPPb2Hl — Liz Cheney (@Liz_Cheney) June 18, 2019 .@AOC needs to stop trying to draw these crayon parallels between POTUS & Hitler! Try working WITH your colleagues on BOTH sides of the aisle to secure our border & fix this rather than desperately trying to promote mass hysteria w this disgusting & woefully false comparison. https://t.co/2X2dZvjVQa — Lee Zeldin (@LeeMZeldin) June 18, 2019 People like @AOC — who are not lifting a finger to solve the problem — comparing the men and women serving our country to concentration camp guards do the Congress and country a great disservice. — Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) June 18, 2019