US colleges mull new virus protocols for students’ return

St. Michael’s College managed to keep coronavirus cases at bay for almost two months this fall with students tested upon arrival and once every three weeks. But in mid-October, cases at the small Vermont school started to climb. The outbreak was linked to an ice rink more than 40 miles (64 kilometers) away. The liberal […]

Rocky the Christmas tree stowaway owl returns to the wild

Rocky the stowaway owl is back in the wild. The tiny Saw-whet owl was named Rockefeller after it was found by a worker setting up the holiday tree Nov. 16 at Manhattan’s Rockefeller Center. The owl was apparently trapped in the 75-foot-tall (23-meter-tall) Norway spruce when it was cut down 170 miles (275 kilometers) north, […]

Elderly Naples woman seriously injured in crash with SUV full of children

A Naples woman, 84, was seriously injured in a vehicle crash with an SUV in Collier County Thursday evening. The woman’s car was traveling south on Logan Boulevard around 6 p.m. The SUV, driven by a Fort Myers man, 38, and carrying five passengers, was traveling north on Logan Boulevard. The Naples woman lost control […]

Possible altercation leads to gunfire outside American Legion

Multiple gunshots were reported in the parking lot of the American Legion at 3130 Martin Luther King Blvd. late Thursday night. According to the Fort Myers Police Department, there may have been an altercation that led to gunfire. One person was non-fatally shot and is in stable condition. The FMPD asks any potential witnesses to […]

Trump says he’ll leave if Electoral College seats Biden

President Donald Trump said Thursday that he will leave the White House if the Electoral College formalizes President-Elect Joe Biden’s victory — even as he insisted such a decision would be a “mistake” — as he spent his Thanksgiving renewing baseless claims that “massive fraud” and crooked officials in battleground states caused his election defeat. […]

Police looking for man on the run after barricading himself within Fort Myers home

The Fort Myers Police Department is still looking for a man who barricaded himself inside a home with a weapon and several children present Thursday morning. What reportedly began as a domestic disturbance between a boyfriend and girlfriend at 1610 Cranford Ave. ended with children having to escape after police shut down the neighborhood and […]

Driver killed in Naples crash with semi-truck Thursday

A driver was killed in a Naples crash with a semi-truck early Thursday. According to the Naples Police Department, at around 1:54 a.m. a Mercedes driving south on US-41 collided with the rear of a semi-truck and trailer that was making a U-turn from the northbound lanes at the intersection of Old Trail Drive and […]

Police searching for car involved in Lee County hit and run

Authorities are on the lookout for a car that was involved in a hit-and-run crash on southbound I-75 Thursday morning. The car responsible, a black sedan of unknown make and model, was traveling south in the inside lane of I-75 near mile marker 117 around 4:33 a.m, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. The victim, […]

Pandemic may force more restaurants to permanently close

As new cases of coronavirus infections surge across the country, many restaurants have been forced to take dining services outside. However, new bans on outdoor dining as well as cold weather have forced some of them to permanently close altogether. Other restaurants may not survive the next few months. After months of outdoor dining that […]