Largest meat producer works to restart after cyberattack

Written by Naples Mortgage Syndicated User on June 2, 2021. Posted in Naples Florida Mortgage, Naples Mortgage.

AP – Just weeks after a cyberattack on the Colonial Pipeline, the world’s largest meat processing company is working to get back up and running following a similar attack. “Our systems are coming back online and we are not sparing any resources to fight this threat,” Andre Nogueira, CEO of JBS USA, said in a statement. Brazil’s JBS SA said late Tuesday that it had made “significant progress” in dealing with the cyberattack and expected the “vast majority” of its plants to be operating on Wednesday, The Associated Press reported. The White House said JBS has made them aware of...

What’s Motivating People To Move Right Now?

Written by Naples Mortgage Syndicated User on June 2, 2021. Posted in Naples Florida Mortgage, Naples Mortgage.

This year, Americans are moving for a variety of reasons. The health crisis has truly reshaped our lifestyles and our needs. Spending so much more time in our current homes has driven many people to reconsider what homeownership means and what they find most valuable in their living spaces. According to the 2020 Annual National Movers Study: “For customers who cited COVID-19 as an influence on their move in 2020, the top reasons associated with COVID-19 were concerns for personal and family health and wellbeing (60%); desires to be closer to family (59%); 57% moved due to changes in employment...

Labelle man dies, two others seriously injured in Tice crash

Written by Naples Mortgage Syndicated User on June 2, 2021. Posted in Naples Florida Mortgage, Naples Mortgage.

LEE COUNTY, Fla. — A 30-year-old Labelle man died in a two car crash on Buckingham Road on Tuesday evening, officials said. Troopers with the Florida Highway Patrol responded to the scene of a two car crash near Park Road around 7:30 p.m. The Labelle man was driving north on Buckingham Road and a 57-year-old Fort Myers man was driving south on Buckingham Road with a 60-year-old Fort Myers woman. Both drivers were in a pickup truck. The 30-year-old went to pass other vehicles in a no-passing zone near a curve in the road, troopers said. When the Fort Myers man’s pickup came around...

Car thief speeding down McGregor Blvd flips stolen vehicle in overnight crash

Written by Naples Mortgage Syndicated User on June 2, 2021. Posted in Naples Florida Mortgage, Naples Mortgage.

LEE COUNTY, Fla. — The driver in a stolen Infiniti Q4 left the scene of a crash he caused early Wednesday morning, officials said. Officers with the Fort Myers Police Department said that the driver was speeding eastbound from McGregor Boulevard to Colonial Boulevard and hit a curb, took out some trees, and landed in the westbound lanes of Colonial Boulevard. A witness at the scene said they saw the driver get out of the car and flee the scene on foot. It’s possible that a second person was involved in the crash and was hurt as a result, police said. The car involved in...

Forecast: Still waiting on rain? More storms on the way Wednesday

Written by Naples Mortgage Syndicated User on June 2, 2021. Posted in Naples Florida Mortgage, Naples Mortgage.

If you’re still waiting to get some rain to water your parched lawns after the long dry season, hang in there! There’s more rain and storms back in the forecast today. However, some of us will get soaked while others stay completely dry, which is just the nature of the beast as we get in the rainy season. For the morning hours, expect another dry and sunny start with temperatures warming into the upper 80s by noon and daytime highs pushing into the lower 90s before the rain cools some of us off this afternoon. Today’s storms will favor locations close to the coast...

Some airlines extend alcohol bans on flights

Written by Naples Mortgage Syndicated User on June 2, 2021. Posted in Naples Florida Mortgage, Naples Mortgage.

FORT MYERS, Fla. – As airports fill back up with passengers hoping to take to the skies, accounts of violence on planes are drastically rising on various airlines around the country. In the last week of May, multiple fist fights were caught on camera while passengers were seated on the plane. Things turned violent on a Southwest Airlines flight when a passenger assaulted a flight attendant, knocking out two of her teeth. Issues in the sky are something some passing through the Southwest Florida International Airport have noticed in their travels, according to Michigan resident...

Florida 10-year-old shot after man returns paintball fire with real gunfire

Written by Naples Mortgage Syndicated User on June 2, 2021. Posted in Naples Florida Mortgage, Naples Mortgage.

MIAMI (AP) — Thinking his home was under attack, a Florida homeowner shot and wounded a 10-year-old whose father had driven him to participate in a drive-by shooting with a paintball gun, police said. Michael Williams, 26, told Opa-locka police his son begged him to drive by a home where young people were gathered Sunday night so he could fire his paintball out the window, according to a police report released Tuesday. Williams drove by the home as his son fired off several rounds, police said. The homeowner confused the paintball for real gunfire, telling police he thought his family was being...

Man attacked by gator in Myakka River

Written by Naples Mortgage Syndicated User on June 1, 2021. Posted in Naples Florida Mortgage, Naples Mortgage.

MYAKKA RIVER, Fla. – A man had only been in the Myakka River for one minute before a gator snapped its jaws around his skull. 25-year-old Jeffrey Heim said frequently dives in Florida waters, looking for fossilized Megalodon shark teeth. A commercial spearfisherman, ethically sourcing shark teeth is his passion project. But Sunday, May 30th, that passion turned into pain. “You never understand the power of a wild animal like that until you’re in its mouth,” said Heim. “I come up for a breath and I felt like I got hit by a boat going 50 miles an hour,”...

FSW Softball leads the way with school’s first national championship

Written by Naples Mortgage Syndicated User on June 1, 2021. Posted in Naples Florida Mortgage, Naples Mortgage.

FORT MYERS, Fla. – After only six years the Florida Southwestern athletics department brought home its first national championship over the weekend after going a perfect 5-0 in the NJCAA national tournament. The Bucs trip out west was complete with dramatic comebacks, a SportsCenter top 10 play, and overall great softball as the Bucs brought the championship to Fort Myers. “I am so proud of our team and it was absolutely a team effort,” FSW freshman infielder Feline Poot said. It took a team effort on the diamond and off that gave FSW the crown jewel that every program has been...

Neighbors catch Cape Coral plywood thief red-handed

Written by Naples Mortgage Syndicated User on June 1, 2021. Posted in Naples Florida Mortgage, Naples Mortgage.

CAPE CORAL, Fla. – One man’s attempt to steal plywood from a home construction site, didn’t go so well after being caught by a couple driving by. “We know it’s a hot commodity right now plywood’s like Gold!” said Debbie Cooper. Cooper and her husband Mike were driving down Surfside & Beach Parkway when they said they noticed a man loading this tan pickup truck with plywood from a home being built. After confronting the man, the guy in the truck told the couple he was taking it to another job to build a pool. But the Coopers weren’t believing his story… “He...

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