Bonita Springs News

MARCO ISLAND, Fla.- Big names in comedy like Drew Carey and Pauly Shore have taken the stage at Marco Island's Off the Hook Comedy Club, but now the club is moving.

Gatorland is adding more than 70 animals -- including a 15-foot American crocodile known as Bonecrusher II -- to the attraction after purchasing the creatures from the recently closed Everglades Wonder Gardens in Bonita Springs.

Submitted As part of the Tavira at Bonita Bay/ASID partnership, 16 top designers unveiled two model residences inspired by nature.

Photo from Shannon Clancy's Facebook page Shannon Clancy, left, and Piotr Urbanski, right, were arrested for possessing and growing marijuana at their Cape Coral home.

A well-known comedy club is moving a few miles north. The owner of " Off the Hook " confirms the club is moving from Marco Island to Bonita Springs.

David Albers/Staff - Marlin Lane in Bonita Springs contributes to the estimated four miles of unpaved and dirt roads in the city limits of Bonita Springs.

If you were a young adult during the 1940's or the 1950's, you are part of a very special generation.

Santo Spina, left, and his son Brien Spina, co-owners of Capt. Brien's Off the Hook Comedy Club in Marco Island, expanded their seafood restaurant into a comedy club.

Four men in the local construction industry were arrested Monday on accusations that they did not carry workers compensation insurance for their employees.

This story is contributed by a member of the Naples community and is neither endorsed nor affiliated with Naples Daily News Rob and Annette Lopez , ServiceMaster-CCS, accepting the 2012 Southwest Florida Blue Chip Community Business Award from Scott Gregory and John Pollock, BB&T-Oswald Trippe and Company; Gus Gustafson, keynote speaker; Gary V.

Lexey Swall/Staff The A-frame building surrounded by road construction at the southeast corner of Old 41 and Bonita Beach roads has gone through many businesses.

"I've noticed it, but it doesn't change my buying habits," said Sondrini, who shops at different supermarkets for her groceries.

The only noticeable scars in Mike Joyce's jewelry store were a boarded up window and this taped display case.

Submitted The new Athena design offered at Bonita Lakes features an open floor plan, three bedrooms, two baths and a study in 2,649 square feet.

I have been greatly-blessed with many new acquaintances and a few new friends this season, prompted, primarily, by my participation in the Relay for Life and the Great Banquet Ministry.

In addition to relocating its corporate headquarters to Estero, Hertz is also planning a 50-car sales and lease retail lot on its future site on the southeast corner of Williams Road and U.S. 41, a Lee County leader said.

BONITA SPRINGS, Fla.- The Lee County Sheriff's Office is investigating a burglary at a jewelry store in Bonita Springs.

Megan Kalka will be the guest soloist at 10 a.m. Sunday for a special Mother's Day service at the Lighthouse Congregational UCC.

Bonita Springs Elementary School was recently honored with a national nutrition award, but the students were at least as interested in the bounty of watermelon, cantaloupe, pineapples, grapes and strawberries that came along with the plaque.

William DeShazer/Staff Luis Gonzalez, enters the Lee County Courthouse on Tuesday May 7, 2013.