Lehigh Acres News

Lee County Sheriff's detectives continue their investigation into the death of 74 year old Everett Reeves.

FORT MYERS: The state continues building its case toay against accused murderer Juan Mendez.

A former Everglades City resident and prominent businessman has been found dead in his Lehigh Acres home, and his death is now the subject of an investigation.

Their white and brown fur was matted and discolored from the feces and urine they'd stepped in.

The Lee County Sheriff's Office is trying to find the person who killed a 74 year old Lehigh Acres man.

Lee County - A dramatic twist in the Juan Mendez murder trial. A mistrial may be declared.

A decision whether to turn ambulance service over to Lee County was tabled until next month today by the Lehigh Acres fire district commission.

About thirty thousand residents have been vaccinated in Lee County against the H1N1 virus.

The state attorney's office has won a bunch of big cases recently. Fred Cooper. Justin Grodin.

A bloody crime scene and more than two dozen stab wounds. Those are the brand new details as testimony begins in the double murder trial of Juan Mendez.

A man who escaped from Lee County deputies on Sunday after his arrest on a traffic charge now faces a felony escape charge and drug charges.

LEHIGH ACRES: A cat managed to get her head stuck in a three-inch wide pipe. And even though nobody knows how she got in there, NBC2 was there for the amazing rescue.

Southwest Lehigh Acres has been hit hard with burglaries and drug-related crimes since 2006, but an application for federal crime-fighting dollars will be submitted this week to fund a comeback.

Lee County is poised to ask the Justice Department for a $1 million grant to fight crime in southwest Lehigh Acres, where drug arrests increased 126 percent and juveniles were arrested for 67 percent of residential burglaries from 2006 to 2008.

Cleaning up Lehigh Acres on one million dollars. Can it happen? People living there applied for a grant hoping the extra cash will make their community a nicer, safer place to live.

LEE COUNTY: Jury selection has begun for the Lee County man accused of killing his estranged wife Whitney Mendez and mother-in-law Lorena Stone.

LEHIGH ACRES: Authorities say a Lehigh Acres woman punished her son by burning him with a clothing iron.

An estimated 150 people listened at Veterans Park in Lehigh Acres to the tributes to living and deceased veterans, especially those serving now in Iraq and Afghanistan and the 13 who died in the Fort Hood shootings.

Lehigh Acres resident Dan M. Ross is interviewed by an NBC-2 reporter in this still image provided by the TV station.

Lee County, Fla -- A Lehigh Acres woman walked outside to find her car scratched, dented and covered in slobber and fur.