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Investigators are expected to examine the design of safety barriers and the use of crowd control in determining what led to a crush of spectators at a Houston music festival that left eight people dead and hundreds more injured. Authorities planned to use videos, witness interviews and a review of concert procedures to figure out […]

Florida Gulf Coast University on Sunday announced its inaugural Hall of Fame class, and among it are some of the school’s historic heavyweights. The 2012-13 men’s basketball team, which put Fort Myers in the national spotlight as “Dunk City” during March Madness, leads the class, joined by Major League Baseball star Chris Sale and Olympian […]

Kids have been stuck in the house for months and now they’re getting a chance to get out and start playing sports again. This weekend, soccer tryouts kick off at JetBlue Park, but is it too soon? A Facebook poll we posted seemed to show a split. There’s a whole list of guidelines for kids, […]

Ukrainian firefighters on Friday extinguished a blaze at Europe’s biggest nuclear plant that was ignited by a Russian attack and no radiation was released, U.N. and Ukrainian officials said, as Russian forces pressed their campaign to cripple the country despite global condemnation. The head of the United Nations’ atomic agency said that a Russian “projectile” […]

Desmond Tutu, South Africa’s Nobel Peace Prize-winning activist for racial justice and LGBTQ rights and retired Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, has died, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa announced Sunday. He was 90. An uncompromising foe of apartheid — South Africa’s brutal regime of oppression against the Black majority — Tutu worked tirelessly, though non-violently, […]

Student-athlete Cortney VanLiew, with FGCU volleyball, arrived on campus Friday and immediately took a test for the coronavirus. “We went through and did the nasal swab for the [COVID-19] testing,” said VanLiew, an outside hitter for the FGCU squad. VanLiew joined with every other FGCU athlete hoping sports are a go this fall. Now she […]

UPDATE: All appointments have been booked. FDOH-Collier has announced the upcoming week’s schedule for the COVID-19 vaccine. The state is distributing the Moderna vaccine to health care personnel with direct patient contact and people 65 and older. The next scheduled vaccine dates are Wednesday, Jan. 20, and Friday, Jan 22, from 9 a.m. to 4 […]

Students, faculty, parents and strangers across Florida and the country are taking pause Monday to remember and reflect on the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting four years ago on February 14, 2018. The Parkland school shooter killed 17 people and injured 17 others. Here’s a look as a we remember each person. Chris Hixon […]

Large events held in Nevada can add themselves to the growing number of places in the U.S. where people in crowds are asked to prove they have been inoculated against COVID-19, the governor said Monday. Hours after the announcement, the Las Vegas Raiders went public with a plan made possible by the new directive to require […]

The United States Soccer Federation’s board of directors voted on Tuesday to repeal its policy that requires athletes to stand during the national anthem before games, according to a report from Grant Wahl. The decision was made earlier than expected, as the board met for a conference call on Tuesday to make it rather than […]