Collier County News

FILE PHOTO Pastor Bill Lytell of Gospel Baptist Church delivers a sermon to worshipers who gathered during an Easter sunrise service on Bonita Beach on a Sunday in a prior year.

Corey Perrine/Staff From left, State Senator Lizbeth Benacquisto, Curt Clawson, Dr. Michael Dreikorn, and Dr. Paige Kreegel are present for the two hour televised moderated debate for the Congressional District 19 Republican candidacy Wednesday, April 9, 2014 at the Lee County School District Headquarters in Fort Myers.

Collier County sheriff's deputies were called to a crash at Collier Boulevard and Grand Lely Drive around 4:10 p.m. Witnesses told deputies the driver of a Ford Mustang, later identified as 59-year-old Elizabeth Buster, was speeding down Collier Boulevard and was unable to stop in time for a yellow light.

Ollie is a sweet Shih Tzu mix with energy to spare. He loves to have his belly scratched and will lavish you with kisses.

Corey Perrine/Staff Patrons walk to Easter services April 20, 2014 at the Naples Pier.

Insignia Real Estate Companies, a private fully integrated real estate and investment fund management company, and Colonial Square Management Group, a full-service commercial real estate management company, announced a definitive merger to form Kova Partners LLC. Anthony Emma, Insignia Real Estate Companies' chief executive officer, and Chip Olson, ... (more)

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.