One injured in Cape Coral shooting

Written by Naples Mortgage Syndicated User on May 31, 2021. Posted in Naples Florida Mortgage, Naples Mortgage.

CAPE CORAL, Fla. – One person was injured in a shooting over the weekend, according to the Cape Coral Police Department. The shooting happened in the parking lot of the Santa Barbra Centre on Hancock Bridge Parkway sometime between late Friday and early Saturday, investigators said. Officials have not yet released further details on the incident, but did say no one was killed. This is a developing story. The post One injured in Cape Coral shooting appeared first on NBC2 News. NBC2 (WBBH-TV)

One injured in Cape Coral rollover crash

Written by Naples Mortgage Syndicated User on May 30, 2021. Posted in Naples Florida Mortgage, Naples Mortgage.

CAPE CORAL, Fla. – At least one person was injured in a rollover crash just west of the intersection of Skyline Boulevard South & Mohawk Parkway in Cape Coral Sunday. A woman was driving a Toyota Sedan on Mohawk Parkway around 9:30 a.m. when she lost control, crossed lanes of traffic and crashed into a tree, officials said. The tree broke in half due to the crash. Witnesses said an off-duty firefighter and a good samaritan were able to get the woman out of the car by cutting her seat belt before rescue crews arrived. The unidentified woman was taken to a local hospital with...

Officials work to improve access to broadband, internet speeds in Cape Coral

Written by Naples Mortgage Syndicated User on May 27, 2021. Posted in Naples Florida Mortgage, Naples Mortgage.

CAPE CORAL, Fla. – The City of Cape Coral is working to improve access to broadband and improve internet speeds in areas like north of Pine Island Road. Currently, many residents have limited access or have internet access with slow speeds, making it difficult to do basic tasks, like work from home or surf the internet. “I would be absolutely ecstatic if I didn’t have to worry about that,” said Linda Stevens, the secretary of the Northwest Cape Coral Neighborhood Association. “I would love to be able to come over here to my computer, click on something,...

Cape Coral rollover crash sends man to hospital, child injured

Written by Naples Mortgage Syndicated User on May 27, 2021. Posted in Naples Florida Mortgage, Naples Mortgage.

CAPE CORAL, Fla. – A man was rushed to the hospital after flipping his SUV on Hancock Bridge Parkway Wednesday afternoon. The man was driving east on Hancock with a juvenile passenger when he went to change lanes, hitting a van, according to Cape Coral police. The man lost control of his SUV, hit the median, flipped the SUV, then hit a tree, traveling into oncoming traffic, police said. The driver is facing life-threatening injuries. His passenger had minor injuries. The two people in the car they hit were not injured. Alcohol and/or drugs are not a factor of the crash, according to police....

Boater dies after crashing into Cape Coral dock

Written by Naples Mortgage Syndicated User on May 27, 2021. Posted in Naples Florida Mortgage, Naples Mortgage.

CAPE CORAL, Fla. – A boater died Wednesday afternoon after crashing into a dock at Alhambra Lake in Cape Coral. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission confirmed the crash happened around 5:45 p.m. when an 18-foot pontoon boat crashed into a dock causing the driver to be thrown from the vessel. EMS crews responded to the scene and confirmed the boater died from their injuries. FWC is still investigating the crash. The identity of the boater has not been released at this time. “All of the members of the FWC want to express our sincere sympathies to the family and...

Waste Pro to update Cape Coral on trash pickup efficiency

Written by Naples Mortgage Syndicated User on May 26, 2021. Posted in Naples Florida Mortgage, Naples Mortgage.

CAPE CORAL, Fla. — Waste Pro will be updating Cape Coral officials on its trash pickup efforts on Wednesday. The company missed nearly 1,200 pickups last month, but the city said that calls for missed pickups have since subsided. Trash pick up numbers for May are still in the works. Waste Pro blamed their bout of missed pick-ups on a lack of employees, so now they’re trying to hire more drivers to fix the mess that clogged curbs across the city. They hired subcontractors to help catch up on bulk item pick-up. Division Manager Bill Jones said that hiring drivers, helpers, and technicians...

Cape Coral woman accused of crashing car into home

Written by Naples Mortgage Syndicated User on May 23, 2021. Posted in Naples Florida Mortgage, Naples Mortgage.

CAPE CORAL, Fla. – A Cape Coral woman is accused of crashing into a Cape Coral home Saturday morning. Cara Gritten, 29, is facing several charges including DUI with property damage. Gritten is accused of driving off the roadway on SE 20th Court and smashing into a victim’s home. The victim, Lauri Langone, said this is the third incident in which a car has collided into her residence. “You can’t even believe what it looks like inside. It’s like a bomb went off! I am still finding glass on the opposite end of the house,” explained Langone. “And to think, my God if...

Cape Coral company creates device to kill COVID-19 germs

Written by Naples Mortgage Syndicated User on May 21, 2021. Posted in Naples Florida Mortgage, Naples Mortgage.

LEE COUNTY, Fla. – Inside a lab at Florida Gulf Coast University, scientists take a petri dish tainted with bacteria, slide it under a light, and within one second the pathogens had vanished. To get the answer on how that happened, we went to a nondescript building in Cape Coral. “This is where the magic happens,” said Peter Lehrer, Vice President of Project Development at Energy Harness Corporation. They specialize in commercial lighting, but at the start of the pandemic, as they were working remotely like most of us, they had an idea. “We thought what can we...

Firework starts blaze in Cape Coral neighborhood

Written by Naples Mortgage Syndicated User on May 20, 2021. Posted in Naples Florida Mortgage, Naples Mortgage.

CAPE CORAL, Fla.– A lit firework was thrown from a vehicle driving in a Cape Coral neighborhood. A Ring video doorbell camera captured the moment on Monday night just after 10 p.m. After the vehicle drove off an explosion rocked the neighborhood and started a small brush fire. The boom caught Ashley Nason’s attention, who was inside her home across the street. “I heard like a firework and I saw it through the window back there.” She ran outside to find a fire burning. “I realized it was a fire and it was just picking up and getting bigger and bigger,” she said. ...

Cape Coral officials prepare for blue-green algae in waterways

Written by Naples Mortgage Syndicated User on May 19, 2021. Posted in Naples Florida Mortgage, Naples Mortgage.

CAPE CORAL, Fla. – With blue-green algae appearing in some Southwest Florida waterways, the City of Cape Coral is preparing with a plan. “Our hope is to get ahead of this prior to it coming into our canals,” said Cape Coral City Councilor Jennifer Nelson. The plan has several parts. First, the city will be working with state and county agencies. The bubble curtain at the Mandolin canal will be reactivated. City staff will also look into developing and procuring additional bubble curtains for high-impact canals. Additionally, they will even look into producing in-house...

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