Collier County News

LEE COUNTY: The 30 year-old North Fort Myers man who was rescued after spending four days stranded in the Everglades remains in the hospital.

Here are the honor rolls from the Collier County School District schools for November 2009: ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS MIDDLE SCHOOLS Everglades City: Jessica Thomas HIGH SCHOOLS Share your thoughts Comments are the sole responsibility of the person posting them.

There's some good news in the local economy. Jobless rates are dropping in Lee and Collier counties as the busy season approaches.

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Water samples taken Monday found red tide, a toxic bloom of microscopic algae, at high enough levels at South Marco beach and Caxambas Pass to cause respiratory irritation, the report said.

The Collier County Sheriff's Office is asking the public for help in identifying a man wanted for questioning in connection with placing a skimming device on an ATM at a North Naples bank.

Contraception education is now officially part of Collier County School District's sex education policy.

Officials are searching for Jamey Mosch in an area near a lake southeast of the Bear Island campground, pictured in the upper righthand corner of this National Park Service map of Big Cypress National Preserve.

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A Christian approach can bring fulfillment and growth in business and in one's personal life.

Emergency responders will participate in a security exercise Wednesday at the Indian Point nuclear plant in Buchanan.

A state appellate court has denied the Collier County Commission's attempt to ask the state Supreme Court to consider its long battle with Collier Clerk of Courts Dwight Brock.

Emergency responders from the Marco Island Fire Rescue Department, Isles of Capri Fire Department, Collier County Emergency Medical Services and Marco Island Police Department respond to a structure fire Tuesday afternoon on Lime Terrace in the Tigertail Court area of the Island.

COLLIER COUNTY : Monday night the NBC2 investigators told you about Collier County Sheriff's deputies chatting, reading the paper, and congregating on your dime.

Motorists should expect the northbound exit ramp at the C.R. 951 interchange, mile marker 101 to be closed between 11 p.m. Tuesday, Nov .17 to 5 a.m. Wednesday, November 18.

It was a good day for former Collier County Manager Jim Mudd. Cheerful, albeit slightly pale, Mudd arrived armed with his usual high spirits and acid wit.

The boy has been identified as Jackson Henuset of 1079 Lake Placid Drive in Calgary.

So far, most of the activity involving Collier County's new red-light running cameras has occurred when most seasonal residents were at home up north.

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According to the Collier County Sheriff's Office, the call came in at 12:05 p.m. of a possible drowning in the 1500 block of Caxambas Court.