Collier County News

An East Naples man was arrested Friday after Collier County sheriff's deputies say he walked into a backyard on Gilchrist Street and hit a man in the back with a golf club.

The Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation was ordered last month to pay a Collier County couple $6,720 in legal and other fees for failing to provide records as required by the state's open records law.

Fort Myers Police are still searching for the suspect or suspects responsible for the shooting death of Tony Seay.

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A Collier County woman is outraged after receiving a postcard in the mail with a grade on her voting history.

DAVID ALBERS/STAFF The first of three approved exploratory oil wells for the Dan A. Hughes permitted in December 2012 is seen about a half mile northeast of the intersection of Immokalee Road and Everglades Boulevard North, Friday, Oct. 25, 2013.

A security company tells us business has doubled since mid-February. That is when as string of violent home break-ins started in Collier County.

Carolina Hidalgo/Staff Tizoc Crispin, center, goes over blueprints with construction workers Juanito Mendoza, left, and Hualy Ramos, right, as they work on a target practice room at the Alamo on April 15, 2014.

Agriculture assistant Lucas Vidaurri at the Southwest Florida Research & Education Center in Immokalee applies herbicide on plants affected by citrus greening in August 2009.

Two Collier County firefighters are out of the hospital after being injured in the fire.

The National Weather Service has issued a weather advisory for west central inland and northwestern coastal Collier County until 4 p.m. National Weather Service meteorologists detected a strong thunderstorm over the west toll gate on Alligator Alley extending seven miles southwest of Golden Gate Estates moving northwest at 20 mph.

A Collier County teacher arrested on a DUI charge early Monday squabbled with the arresting officer over whether she had a right to speak to an attorney before taking a breath test, according to a dash cam recording released by Naples police.

Surveillance video obtained by Crime Stoppers shows masked men moments before they burst into a home and held a family at gunpoint.

Collier County sheriff's deputies are investigating a home invasion robbery that happened early Monday in East Naples - but officials say it's not related to five recent home invasion robberies that are believed to be connected.

This architectural concept of the new Mackle Park Community Center is part of a brochure provided by the Marco Island Parks and Recreation Advisory Committee to explain why the island needs the center.

According to RealtyTrac's home equity survey for the first quarter of 2014, while Southwest Florida lagged the nation in the percentage of homes that were seriously underwater, it still was doing better than many other places in the state.

Each April, the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence sponsors Alcohol Awareness Month to increase public awareness and understanding, reduce stigma and encourage local communities to focus on alcoholism and alcohol-related issues.

Slurring, cursing and arguing with police. WINK News just got the dash-cam video of a Collier County teacher who was busted for DUI and drugs.

This story is contributed by a member of the Naples community and is neither endorsed nor affiliated with Naples Daily News Check presentation from The League Club to CCCR Pictured L-R Christine Kruman, President of The League Club; Mabel Ramirez, Director of the NCEF Early Childhood Development Center; and Niccole Howard, Executive Director of ... (more)