12:52 p.m. Update from FDOT: The Matanzas Pass Bridge remain temporarily closed to traffic. "This closure is necessary to allow FDOT bridge inspectors and the U.S. Coast Guard to conduct a safety inspection following an incident involving a boat that became lodged under the bridge," Florida ...
The location for the city of Cape Coral Charter School Authority Governing Board's Sept. 17 meeting has changed. The board will hold its regular meeting, set for at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 17, at Oasis Elementary North Cafeteria, 2817 S.W. 3rd Lane. Cape Coral City Council appoints the Cape Coral Charter School Governing Board, which oversees the operations of the city’s four school municipal charter school system. The eleven-member board includes seven voting members and a Council representative, as a voting member. For more information, email ...
The School District of Lee County is excited to once again present the largest public display of student artwork in the state of Florida. The 2024 Designs and Dreams of Young Artists show will be held Tuesday, Sept. 17, and showcase more than 600 pieces of art from students in elementary, middle and high school. “Designs and Dreams is an outstanding display of the Lee County student arts and art educators,” says Fine and Performing Arts Coordinator Dr. Jason Thomashefsky. “Arts education is the key to helping students find their own inner source of creativity, mindfulness, and ...
BREAKING: (AP) The FBI says former President Donald Trump was the subject of "an apparent assassination attempt" at his Florida golf club. U.S. Secret Service agents opened fire after seeing a person with a firearm near Trump’s golf club in West Palm Beach while the Republican presidential candidate was golfing Sunday, according to two law enforcement officials. No injuries were reported. An AK-style firearm was recovered near Trump's golf course where shots were fired, two law enforcement officials tell AP. The person fled in an SUV and was later apprehended in a nearby ...
Four Cape Coral residents — three of them in their teens — died, and a fifth was critically injured in a single-vehicle crash early this morning after the driver lost control while changing lanes on I-75 in Collier County. The crash occurred at mile marker 110 at 6:22 a.m. According to Florida Highway Patrol, three male occupants — the 18-year-old driver and two 19-year-old passengers — were confirmed deceased on scene; one female occupant, 21, was critically injured, transported, and later pronounced deceased at an area hospital; and one critically injured male, 16, was ...
Cape Coral police have arrested two men alleged to have held employees of a local arcade at gunpoint during an armed robbery. Jayilyn Thomas, 23, and Mikael Stewart, 24, were arrested in connection with a robbery that took place Monday morning at Hurricane Arcade on Pine Island Road around 10 a.m. Thomas has been charged with robbery with a firearm. Stewart has been charged with robbery with a firearm, and flee/elude a law enforcement officer. Cape Coral Police Department officials state they received a 9-1-1 call that an armed robbery had just occurred at the arcade, where a male ...
