Fort Myers Shores News

Thieves break into a Fort Myers Shores home, steal video games, and turn on all the water faucets before they leave.

INFO BOX To donate to Toys for Tots, there are four locations affiliated with the Bayshore Fire Department.

FORT MYERS : A bear is on the move in east Fort Myers. It has been popping up in backyards, carports, and even poking his nose inside the doggy door of one woman's house.

They were friends and soldiers. They grew up together in Fort Myers Shores. They joined the Army the same day, and they died together after an argument somehow placed them in front of a 1992 Ford Mustang.

Authorities are on the scene of a car crash at Palm Beach Boulevard and Old Olga Drive in east Lee County.

A woman is dead after a fire at Fort Myers Shores home on Labor Day. Authorities say a man emerged from the home on Weber Lane, yelling that a woman was still inside.

The fire marshal is investigating a Monday blaze in east Fort Myers in which a woman died trapped inside the home.

A Fort Myers Shores woman died today when she was trapped inside her home after it caught fire.

The Lee County Sheriff's Office is continuing to investigate a Fort Myers Shores Sunday drive-by shooting that left no one injured.

It was 1988. Nancy Apperson was driving her tiny 4-cylinder Toyota on U.S. 41 with two children in the back seat.

It was 1988. Nancy Apperson was driving her tiny 4-cylinder Toyota on U.S. 41 with two children in the back seat.

Lee County Deputies and Animal Control Officers took 16 animals that were emaciated and covered in parasites from a home in Fort Myers Shores.

The chart on the Aug. 4 front page describing the impact of the Cape Coral tax rate hike is misleading.

The chart on the Aug. 4 front page describing the impact of the Cape Coral tax rate hike is misleading.

The first dawn of autumn had arrived an hour earlier, but summer's wet heat still hung heavy in the old Olga orange grove, framing the graceful silhouette of a grand old farmhouse.

Concerned with the growing rate of medically uninsured in Lee County as more and more people lose their jobs, a group of citizens are reaching out to help people access basic health care services through a health and wellness expo.

The preliminary 30 percent drop in property values expected Friday has Lee County fire officials considering a hold on new equipment purchases, hiring freezes, overtime cuts, and partnerships with other districts to maintain response times and ensure residents' safety.