Caught on camera, a basketball court run amok after a coach got punched in the face at Mariner High School in Cape Coral. The game was between Ida Baker and Dunbar high schools while Mariner High School merely hosted the game. During the fight, someone from the stands came down and punched the coach. Perhaps […]
A community where a woman was killed by two alligators is now being allowed to remove the reptiles. Rose Wiegand, 80, fell into a pond near her Boca Royale home while trimming grass near the seawall and was attacked on July 15. The permit allows Boca Royale to remove 25 gators from the pond. The […]
On Tuesday, Fort Myers police found the identity of one of eight men whose skeletal remains were found in the woods in 2007, suspected victims of a Southwest Florida serial killer known as the “Hog Trail Killer.” The Fort Myers Police Department confirmed the identity of one of the men to be Robert Ronald “Bobbie” […]
On Tuesday, the Fort Myers City Council is expected to discuss the possibility of taking the golf cart off the course and letting people drive them on certain roads. The people WINK News have spoken to are not too keen on the idea of having golf carts out there on the roads with other cars […]
In a fit of road rage, a man passes a woman on Daniels Parkway near Gulfcoast Medical Center, brake-checks her, and she’s seen going into the median into oncoming traffic while the man drove away. The woman, Amelia Flores, said she was freaked out by the road rage incident and it was all caught on […]
The nation’s report card came out and the students are not doing well. We’ve seen the sharpest drop in reading and math scores for 9-year-olds in 30 years. It’s important to note that this is the first nationally representative report comparing students from before to after the pandemic. The data includes only 9-year-olds, most of […]
A teen is continuing his treatment in Chicago after ending up in the hospital while visiting Port Charlotte. He has been fighting what doctors believe is a brain-eating amoeba for months. The Charlotte County health department says they have not officially diagnosed him but say that is their best-qualified guess. Caleb Ziegelbauer is unconscious and […]
A man landed on the radar of the Lee County Sheriff’s Office after taking a photo in front of a Buckingham home for his job. It recently happened to a DoorDash driver who was dropping off an order. After an investigation, his name is cleared, but the damage was already done. The photos of the […]
A convicted felon said he felt remorse after changing his plea to guilty for Covid relief fraud. Daniel Tisone, 34, is accused of getting money from the government illegally and then using it to buy a boat, two properties in Naples, and jewelry. With a stroke of the pen, Daniel Tisone admitted he stole money […]
Thursday night, a little more than a month after a man terrified a community for hours by shooting from his balcony police are talking about what happened that night. The shooting scene at the Vistas at Eastwood apartments in Fort Myers has put residents on edge ever since it happened. The Vistas at Eastwood community […]