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Fort Myers City Council members discuss combining law enforcement agencies

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FORT MYERS, Fla. — A discussion to combine law enforcement agencies in Fort Myers brought dozens of people to speak in support of keeping the Fort Myers Police Department as it is. More than 100 supporters of the Fort Myers Police Department demonstrated at Monday’s City Council meeting. One city council member proposed having the Lee County Sheriff’s Office take over policing in Fort Myers. Councilman Fred Burson added the item to Monday’s agenda after learning that Chief Derrick Diggs applied for a job at the Columbus Police Department. Burson said he has no intent to harm individual...

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Naples Park trees to be removed for infrastructure repairs

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NAPLES, Fla. – Trees in Naples Park are soon getting the axe due to infrastructure repairs. Collier County Public Utilities continues to revamp the neighborhood’s infrastructure by replacing water, wastewater, and stormwater systems. In some areas, pipes are over 50 years old.  The project began in 2015. Its new phase to revamp 108th Ave N and 109th Ave N started in late April. Before work begins, the county is tasked with clearing out any trees or landscaping that blocks access to the underground pipes.  Last week, the county spray painted trees that will be removed with orange...

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Water experts study blue-green algae bloom

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FORT MYERS, Fla.– Blue-green algae is back with a vengeance.   “The algae is thriving because the conditions are just right for them,” said FGCU Water School Professor, Barry Rosen. Rosen is working with his students to collect samples of the bloom to study. “The rainy season will come which will give us a flush off the land which could stimulate the growth but also during the rainy season it becomes much more turbulent. The water will get stirred up, they’ll get moved out of the light and they don’t do as well,” said Rosen. Over the course of the next several...

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Officers looking for missing & endangered man in Cape Coral

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CAPE CORAL, Fla. — Officers are searching for a man that went missing in Cape Coral on Monday afternoon. Russel Andrew Devane, 31, was last seen Monday around 1:30 driving a 2013 brown Dodge Ram with Florida Handicap tag ZK15R. He is considered to be missing and endangered, officers with the Cape Coral Police Department said. Devane is a white man, 5’11”, 165lbs, with brown hair and brown eyes. He has a heart tattoo on his right wrist and was last seen wearing a grey t-shirt, red plaid pajama bottoms, and slides. If you recognize Devane and have information on his whereabouts,...

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Southwest Florida coronavirus case totals for Monday, May 17

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Data per the Florida Department of Health as of Monday, May 17. Additional case data compares to the previous update. TOTAL CASES IN FLORIDA: 2,292,004 (+1,976)TOTAL DEATHS IN FLORIDA: 36,857 (+59)TOTAL IN SOUTHWEST FLORIDA:   132,044 (+180) LEE COUNTY –  72,272 (+110) | 987 (+1)COLLIER COUNTY –  36,493 (+48) | 540 (+2)CHARLOTTE COUNTY –  13,144 (+13) | 426 (+1)HENDRY COUNTY –  4,796 (+8) | 84 (+0)DESOTO COUNTY –  4,374 (+1) | 94 (+0)GLADES COUNTY –  965 (+0) | 19 (+0) The post Southwest Florida coronavirus case...

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Cicadas incoming: Billions of insects emerging for monthlong mating ritual

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NBC News — Ready or not, Brood X has arrived. Billions of cicadas are emerging from their underground habitats for the first time in 17 years to take part in a noisy, monthlong mating ritual. Cicada sightings have already been reported in Virginia, Maryland, and Georgia. Warm weather on the East Coast could bring out the insects in big numbers this week. “It’s such a unique experience because they really take over for a month or so,” said John Cooley, an entomologist at the University of Connecticut. “There may be trillions of ants around, but most of the time...

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