Lee County News

A Lee County man was arrested early Tuesday after police said he visited a Tampa strip club while leaving his toddler in his car.

It was a rare sighting off Sanibel Island Tuesday when, researchers say, a smalltooth sawfish turned up near the shore in Tarpon Bay.

"It's been slowly but surely dwindling over the past three years," Bonita Chamber of Commerce CEO Christine Ross says.

The summer feeding program is beginning in Lee County, designed to help kids get good nutrition during the break from school.

LEE COUNTY, Fla.- William Lopez-Torres is the latest suspect to be arrested in the Lee County School District check cashing scheme.

LEE COUNTY, Fla.- Lee County Port Authority Police arrested 54-year-old Jerry Lee Soots after he was allegedly seen on surveillance video, cutting the cord of a vending machine at the Southwest Florida International Airport.

LEE COUNTY, Fla.- The Lee County Port Authority detained a 59-year-old man at the Southwest Florida International Airport on Sunday after TSA officers found a firearm in his bag.

A motorcyclist is dead after crashing into construction barrels on the Cape Coral Bridge and flying into the Caloosahatchee River.

Lee County Clerk of Courts Charlie Green just added national advertising to his office's website through Google ads in hopes of luring local advertisers.

Hilario Luna, of United Steel Workers ties steel rebar on the south side of the Metro Parkway extension Alico Road overpass in San Carlos Park.

The owners of the 1.4-acre island on the Caloosahatchee River have scheduled an absolute auction to sell it, meaning it will go to the highest bidder.

B. Pat O'Rourke answered 75 questions for his Personal Wellness Profile Comprehensive Assessment Questionnaire.

Memorial Day commemorated off Fort Myers Beach: The Fort Myers Beach Yacht Club members commemorate Memorial Day at Fort Myers Beach Monday, May 28, 2012 Tara Kurkimilis, left, helps Kieran Kurkimilis, 6, place a patriotic drawing held down with red, white and blue toy cars near the grave of his grandfather, Army veteran Thomas Drumm, Monday, May ... (more)

A recent settlement marks the end of a three-year legal standoff between the loneliest condominium dweller in Fort Myers and a one-time billionaire developer.

Lee County drivers have sounded off on what roads drive them nuts, and now a county committee will use that input to build solutions.

The Lee County Board of County Commissioners will meet on Tuesday and is expected to approve new voting precinct boundaries based on the 2010 Census and redistricting.

David Albers/Staff - Paul Lawence Dunbar Middle School seventh-grader Kayla Sheffield, 13, celebrates winning Lee County's 15th Annual Middle School Spelling Bee on Thursday, March 8, 2012, at Three Oaks Middle School in San Carlos Park.

Q: Does Naples/Collier County/Southwest Florida have any "Honor Flights" for World War II veterans to D.C.? While we have several each year in the Quad Cities area in metro Iowa-Illinois, I don't recall ever hearing and/or reading about them when in Naples.

Riverchase Dermatology and Cosmetic Surgery is the first Lee County medical practice to offer CoolSculpting , a non-invasive, clinically proven procedure that reduces fat layers in problem areas through the use of a patented cooling technology.

I was happy I was able to ask the final question at a mental health workshop last fall at Florida Gulf Coast University .