Collier County News

DAVID ALBERS/STAFF - John Orr listens to arguments during a hearing for several motions in his second-degree murder trial on Friday, Dec. 6, 2013 t the Collier County Courthouse in Naples.

David Albers/Staff - Amy Chesser leaves a Collier County Courtroom after being granted an early termination to her felony battery sentence probation on Friday, Dec. 6, 2013.

A 30-year-old Immokalee man was arrested Wednesday, charged with lewd and lascivious molestation of a girl under 12. Collier County Sheriff's investigators were contacted by DCF when they responded to a child abuse call.

Deputies have responded Friday afternoon to a possible child drowning in East Naples, a Collier County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman said.

Collier County Parks and Recreation will host the 28th Annual Snowfest on Saturday, Dec. 7, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. What started in 1985 with just five tons of snow and a few hundred people, Snowfest is now Collier County's largest community event, attracting over 15,000 people to play in 100 tons of snow.

North Naples Middle School in Collier County, Florida is now a twerk-free zone after a sixth grade twerking student slipped and triggered a classroom fire alarm in the process.

A new study found Texas, Florida, Georgia,and Virginia were the biggest losers among states not expanding Medicaid because they are forgoing billions of dollars in federal funds, while residents in their states are contributing to the cost of the expansions in other states.

COLLIER COUNTY, Fla - A stolen boat hauled away from an Isles of Capri home is now sitting in Cancun, Mexico.

SCOTT MCINTYRE/Staff A student from iGeneration Charter School in Immokalee gets into her ride home after school.

Collier County Sheriff Kevin Rambosk attaches a red ribbon magnet to the CCSO B.A.T. Mobile, a mobile DUI command center, following a breakfast to kick off the Red Ribbon Promise campaign at Avow in North Naples on Tuesday.

Foam flurries spewed from streetlights while 4-year-old Sofia Sandoval lifted her palms to the night sky.

The holidays would've meant hunger for Kay Hill without the assistance of St. Matthew's House.

COLLIER COUNTY, Fla.- It'll take more than just signatures to get medical marijuana on the ballot.

COLLIER COUNTY, Fla.- "It's important anytime somebody has a suspected package that they don't hesitate, they call 911," said East Naples-Golden Gate Fire Chief Kingman Schuldt.

This time next year, the Isles of Capri Fire-Rescue District will be part of the East Naples Fire Control and Rescue District.

Dania Maxwell/Staff North's Jonah Bueltel , of First Baptist Academy, is tackled by South's LJ Greenidge in the first quarter of the All-Star football game at Barron Collier High School on Thursday, December 13, 2012.

Hodges University has named Dudley Goodlette as its 2014 Humanitarian of the Year, an annual award that recognizes significant achievements of a community leader.

Finally, we know what it will cost those of us in Lee County for an Obamacare plan available on the HealthCare.gov website.

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In fact, Collier County was the only county of 67 in which all personnel - teachers, instructional staff and administrators - were uniformly, across the board, marked 100 percent "effective."