Fort Myers Beach News

Grace Speas took second place in Washington, D.C., winning the $16,000 Charles Kuralt Memorial Scholarship Award for the Voice of Democracy Program provided by the Veterans of Foreign Wars .

Spring break is here. You'd think local families would be streaming to the beaches, but a poll by The News-Press got an overwhelming "no" response.

"We spent the last couple days gathering information trying to find out what happened and what needs to be done," Red Sox general manager Ben Cherington said of catching prospect Jon Denny's recent brush with the law .

Doug and Judy Peterson, of Bougainvillea Lane in Fort Myers Beach, sent in this picture of their mailbox.

Brittany and Sondra's Furniture Consignment has been selling upscale consignment pieces, many of them coastal-style, for 16 years, eight of them on Pine Ridge Road near Fort Myers Beach.

A funeral service is scheduled for Fort Myers entrepreneur Dave Lageschulte on March 22 in his home town of Waverly, Iowa.

LEE COUNTY, Fla.- Lee County Sheriff's deputies arrested 19-year-old Jonathan Denney, a minor league catcher for the Boston Red Sox, for knowingly driving with a suspended license just before midnight last night on Fort Myers Beach.

Thousands of Florida homeowners facing dramatic increases in their federal flood insurance premiums won a crucial reprieve Thursday when the Senate voted overwhelmingly to cap rate hikes and provide other relief.

In less than a year, the man changed young Patrick Driscoll's life. "I was the original wild child," says Driscoll, 44, about his 11-year-old self: smoking, fighting and running the streets of Fort Myers' gritty Pine Manor neighborhood.

Curling irons, makeup brushes and hairspray bottles covered tables outside Coconut Point mall in Estero on Friday while breast cancer survivors got glam.

One step at a time is the mindset of a 75- year-old Vietnam veteran who is walking across America.

FORT MYERS BEACH, Fla.,- The Fort Myers Beach election went to the ladies! For the first time ever, three women celebrated a victory win after the beach community voted them in to serve on council.

Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 was hundreds of miles off course, traveling in the opposite direction from its original destination and had stopped sending identifying transponder codes before it disappeared.

FORT MYERS BEACH, Fla.- It's Election Day on Fort Myers Beach! There are 5,145 registered voters on the island, and they are encouraged to head to the polls and vote to fill the spots for Town Council.

Five candidates are vying for three seats. One of the biggest factors in this election is traffic specifically, Estero Boulevard.

This weekend is full of fun, from the Southwest Florida Reading Festival and Disney On Ice's "Rockin' Ever After" to a book reading by local sleep specialist and child neurologist Dr. Jose Colon.

Link: Visit the spring break page for more stories, videos and galleries. Five years ago, Brad Hoffman got his first chance to torch up Fort Myers Beach as one of the Greater Cincinnati Firefighters show group dancers.

The Greater Cincinnati Firefighters Show group dancers performed Sunday for spring break crowds at Fort Myers Beach.

FORT MYERS BEACH, Fla.- The Fort Myers Beach Shrimp Festival is taking the spotlight for the weekend! It's one of the beaches biggest events of the year, giving people the chance to come and taste some of the best shrimp straight from the Gulf.

The annual Drug House Odyssey will once again highlight for local students and the public the potential consequences of combining alcohol consumption and drug use with driving.