North Fort Myers News

Around 11 p.m. Monday, a Cape Coral man says he watched as a coyote attacked his little dog.

At Lawhon's Grocery and Meat in North Fort Myers, the cashiers were averaging more than $500 in Powerball tickets an hour.

SUN PHOTO BY BETSY WILLIAMS The Charlotte High School class of 2013 first met in Whaley Hall, the staging area where last-minute instructions were given to the graduates, before they went to the Lee Civic Center in North Fort Myers for this year's commencement exercises Thursday evening.

The routes travel to Collier County and as far north as North Fort Myers, stopping at places like the beach, the mall and the library.

SUN PHOTO BY ADAM KREGER, akreger@sun-herald.com Who says Tarpons and Pirates can't be friends? Dalton Rostetter, 18, center, of Port Charlotte High School came to support his buddies, Tyler Traniello, left, and Brett Saine, both 18, who were graduating from Charlotte High School Thursday night at the Lee Civic Center in North Fort Myers.

Governor Scott's signing of a law ordering the closure of adult arcades have left some people out of the money.

Lee County Commissioner Tammy Hall is supporting local artists by giving them an opportunity to display their artwork in her Fort Myers office on the first floor of the Old County Courthouse, 2120 Main Street in downtown Fort Myers.

NORTH FORT MYERS, Fla. Lee County Sheriff's deputies arrested 52-year-old Donald Leo Hayward on Saturday, in regards to a one-acre wildfire near North Cleveland Street and Pine Island Road.

Commercial Burglary; 400 Goodlette Road N; the manager of the business reported that four storage units' locks were removed and units were entered without permission.

A North Fort Myers man was arrested after deputies found one of his horses was found eating garbage on the side of the road after getting loose something they say has happened numerous times.

NORTH FORT MYERS, Fla.- Lee County Sheriff's deputies arrested Richard Minnick, 43, for permitting livestock to run at large after his horse was allegedly found rummaging through garbage cans on the 17300 block of Pritchett Pkwy.

North Fort Myers Fire Control District and the Florida Division of Forestry responded to a brush fire around 3 p.m. on Saturday.

The North Fort Myers Fire Dept. says they have contained a brush fire that broke out around 3pm Saturday near U.S. 41 and Pine Island Rd.

A mother and her live-in boyfriend were arrested Wednesday and charged with abusing the woman's two children, a boy, 13, and a girl, 9, according to a Charlotte County Sheriff's report.

With nearly twice the teams as expected and an influx of teams that attend the school, this relay should be one for the record books as far as money raised.

LEE COUNTY, Fla.- The man accused of killing his live-in girlfriend in their North Fort Myers mobile home in May of 2011, has been found guilty as charged of Second Degree Murder with a firearm.

The recreation manager for the City of Marco Island's Parks and Recreation Department has been up with the sun every Tuesday and Wednesday since November helping to transform Veterans Memorial Park into the weekly Farmer's Market and then back into a park again.

Mary M. Wandless, 95, also known as "Mary Martha Mason from Meadow Mountain Maryland." Born Dec.

Despite the rain, Goodwill Industries of Southwest Florida, Inc. hosted a ceremonial groundbreaking for its latest income-sensitive housing for people with physical this morning.

Residents living along a North Fort Myers road say they're constantly avoiding massive pot holes and have been for a long time.