Collier County News

The weekend event will end today at 5 p.m., and was packed on Saturday as families, history buffs, volunteers and costumed re-enactors strolled throughout the grounds and museum buildings.

Emergency Medical Technician Lt. Anthony Hiserodt administers a swine flu vaccination to Frank Stute of Marco Island at the Collier County Health Department's H1N1 clinic Friday at the former Kmart location at US 41 and Collier Blvd.

A teenager who was out on bond for a murder charge was back in jail Thursday in connection with an East Naples burglary in October.

Authorities say that on Monday night, 16-year-old Robert Dale Lynn, a student at Palmetto Ridge High School, was hanging out with a female friend under 16, and a male friend inside the male friend's bedroom.

City Environmental Specialist Nancy Richie announced three public workshops, including the first scheduled 1 p.m. Wednesday, at Mackle Park, on the topic of preventing the attack of the white fly.

Two men were arrested Tuesday in connection with the murder of a Port Charlotte man who was found dead in his home Sunday.

Christina Jonsson-Maas comforts her son Landon Maas, 2, as they both wait to get the the H1N1 vaccine Thursday at North Collier Regional Park.

Authorities have released the identity of the body found in Bonita Springs earlier today.

The Collier County School District has rolled out a new project that allows students who qualify for reduced meal benefits, which means they pay 40 cents for lunch instead of the $2 at the elementary school level, to receive school lunch for free.

NAPLES: The Florida Division of Forestry is conducting a prescribed burn in the Picayune Strand State Forest, south of Alligator Alley.

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.

Twenty lawyers - including prosecutors, public defenders, and a Collier Circuit Court counsel laid off during state budget cuts - have asked to be considered for the seat that will be vacated when Collier Circuit Judge Lawrence Martin retires.

A 63-year-old man has been charged with attempted murder after deputies say he fired gunshots at two people this morning during an argument over a parked car in Immokalee.

Cpl. Tony Lauer was suspended for 86 hours without pay and was placed on seven months probation after authorities say he took a suspect to a hospital and left her room to place a phone call, at which time the suspect escaped.

On a 4 to 1 vote, commissioners defeated the project, eliciting great applause from parents and other community residents.

On Sunday morning, Gina Downs was dealing with a computer that crashed, a grandson who was undergoing surgery, and attempting to prepare for Monday morning's announcement that she will seek the Collier County Commission District 2 seat.

This is the October cover of Gulfshore Life magazine with Ingmar "Iggy" Sprude, 28.

Collier County Commissioner Frank Halas announced Sunday he will not seek a third term in 2010.

A news story in this newspaper the other day raised the question of whether, since they teach seemingly everything else, sex-education classes at Collier County public schools should teach about statutory rape and other laws involved.

The Collier County Health Department will offer H1N1 flu vaccine at the following community vaccination clinics for high risk individuals: November 5th, North Collier Regional Park Exhibit Hall from 10 am - 6 pm November 7th, Immokalee Sports Complex from 10 am - 6 pm Additional vaccination clinics will be scheduled as vaccine shipments continue to ...