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The Everglades is just one great water the coalition is working to protect. An alliance of more than 30 organizations came together yesterday with lawmakers from across the nation to launch America's Great Waters Coalition to restore the water ecosystems that sustain people, wildlife and the economy .

The Everglades and Naples is a far cry away from "da Bronx" where both my husband and I grew up.

Published: Sunday, November 15, 2009 at 1:00 a.m. Last Modified: Friday, November 13, 2009 at 2:28 p.m. Like many of you, I'm reluctant to go to the bathroom at night for fear I will find a 16-foot python curled around my can of shaving cream.

Looking at how business is conducted at Citrus Memorial Health System, attorneys for the hospital's board of trustees have referred to two other cases.

Published: Tuesday, November 3, 2009 at 10:17 p.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, November 3, 2009 at 10:17 p.m. 'This is the story of America's last frontier,' said Michael Grunwald, senior correspondent of Time Magazine.

Duration: 57:04 CC Stereo TVG One of America's national treasures, the million acres of the Big Cypress Swamp are not as well known as its neighbor to the East -"The Everglades." This documentary captures its animal inhabitants, gorgeous landscapes and natural sounds with magnificent beauty while also recounting its history and current status.

As we slogged waist-deep into a soup of black water, the Cypress dome closed in, a wet garden of epiphytes and silvered tree trunks so magical, I almost forgot the cottonmouth water moccasins lurking out of sight.

The Fall 2009 Samuel Proctor Florida History Lecture Series at the University of Florida continues Tuesday with a lecture by Michael Grunwald, a prize-winning national reporter for Time magazine.

Finding a place for registered sex offenders to live is a matter of balance -- teetering between safety, emotions and the complexity of Florida law.

"It was just a big mess," Lisa Thompson said, after driving more than 30 minutes from Golden Gate Estates to the main office at the Collier County Government Complex in East Naples.

The Museum of the Everglades is a showcase for the history of the Everglades region in Southwest Florida.

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Kildare's singing superstar Damien Rice is set to take part in a benefit concert in the Westgrove Hotel on Wednesday, September 30.

Published: Sunday, September 6, 2009 at 6:01 a.m. Last Modified: Saturday, September 5, 2009 at 12:02 a.m. In 1904, Napoleon Bonaparte Broward ran for governor on the promise to drain the Florida Everglades.

If it's scaly, slippery, slimy and cold-blooded, chances are University professor emeritus Whit Gibbons has studied it.

POLICE dealt with several incidents during the Lammas Fair in Ballycastle. As well as incidents at the Quay Road Playing Fields which we reported last week there were a number of other incidents.

The amenities aren't much at Everglades Holiday Park: weathered boat ramps, chickee huts and wooden benches.

What constitutes a classic Florida book? An author's passion for sabal palms, hurricane warnings, mildew, mojitos and the ability to pluck nuggets of truth from our rich and sometimes ugly history? A wicked sense of humor about the subtropical oddities a ' flying cucarachas, copulating iguanas, six-toed cats, swamp-eating developers a ' skittering ...

Collier deputies responded to a burglary on Thomasson and Outer drives in East Naples in July, arriving quickly and an officer was hurt when dragged by the suspect's car.

It's supposed to be good luck to wish upon a shooting star, but this year you'll be lucky to see one during what is supposed to be one of the most impressive meteor showers of the year this week, and you can blame the moon for interfering.