Lehigh Acres News

The Lee County Sheriff's Office will offer residents a chance to anonymously discard unused prescription medications on Saturday.

It was a happy ending for a diamond shop owner last Friday, when a Collier Circuit judge granted her motion to expunge her criminal record.

Follow this case online: Collier County Clerk of Courts Please note: Most cases require 5-7 days to be inputted into the public court record.

LEHIGH ACRES: A Lehigh Acres man was arrested after deputies say he attacked a man who was walking down the street Tuesday.

Forty people were lined up at 3 p.m., an hour before the doors opened, for swine flu shots on Monday at Lehigh Senior High School.

Gasoline prices jumped 12 percent in October and employers who depend on workers on the road say the increase is salt in their economic wounds.

Collier County sheriff's deputies have arrested two men and charged them with sexually battering a child.

On Tuesday and Wednesday, members of the Sheriff's Office's Financial Crimes Bureau and Technical Equipment Unit, the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation, and Collier County Community Development and Environmental Services-Contractor Licensing conducted an operation to identify persons advertising their services to perform ...

The 45,000-square-foot Hope Hospice House for Lehigh Acres project is on schedule to open in April, according to Samira Beckwith, CEO of Hope Hospice and Community Services.

Lehigh Acres could reopen a fire station and put six ambulance crew members back on duty as firefighters if Lee County takes over the ambulance service in Lehigh Acres.

FORT MYERS: A flu shot shortage is frustrating parents in Lee County. The Lee County Health Department has run out of seasonal flu vaccine for children under the age of two.

A stinky problem at Homestead Road and Leeland Heights Boulevard is about to be eliminated.

A late summer food drive and the start of the school year eased the pressure on food pantries in Lehigh Acres, but donations are always welcome, operators say.

A celebration of the Hindu New Year will take place from 7 to 11 p.m. today at the Masonic Lodge in Lehigh Acres, 1110 Ashlar Ave.

It happened on Hawalaska Street while deputies were responding to the attempted break-in call.

Orion Bank, already under heavy scrutiny by federal regulators, hasn't paid about $225,000 in real estate taxes on land it owns in Lee County, tax collector's data shows.

Drainage officials said tonight they want to work with Lee County to provide a greenway along the Able Canal in Lehigh Acres.

Toys for Tots volunteers gathered at the Yacht Club on Saturday to kick off this yeara s toy drive.

A woman died early this morning after her car veered of the roadway and struck a utility pole in Lehigh Acres.

Lee County Sheriff's deputies are investigating an alleged battery where a Lehigh Acres church member accused his pastor of shoving him and calling him the devil.