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Lab results have connected one of three black bears killed by wildlife officers in southwest Florida to a fatal attack on a man and his dog a day earlier, officials said Friday.
As an investigation is underway after an airboat collision last week, one of the injured is recalling his terrifying ordeal with Local 10 News.
An investigation was underway on Saturday after at least 16 people were injured when two airboats collided Friday in the Everglades Naples–Marco Island area.
Sixteen people were hospitalized following a collision between two airboats in Collier County on Friday afternoon, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
A 43-year-old man recently admitted to stealing from airline passengers while he worked as a U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer.
Moments before the deadly crash of a charter jet on a Florida highway, three warnings about oil pressure problems in its two engines sounded, the National Transportation Safety Board said in a preliminary report Tuesday.
A newly-released incident report details the moments before a private jet crashed on Interstate 75 near Naples, killing two pilots from Broward County, and how a flight attendant helped the survivors escape before the plane exploded.
Collier County dispatchers were inundated with 911 calls after a private jet crashed on Interstate 75 Friday afternoon, killing two pilots from South Florida. Authorities have now released those phone calls.
Harrowing video has emerged of the jet that crashed Friday afternoon showing passengers’ excitement turning to terror and offering a rare glimpse into a flight’s final moments.
A private jet crashed on Interstate 75 in Collier County Friday afternoon, bursting into flames and killing at least two people, according to authorities.
According to the Florida Highway Patrol, a man from South Florida led troopers on a high-speed chase on Interstate 75 on the state’s west coast Wednesday morning, ending in a PIT maneuver — and handcuffs.
A Florida man turned $5 into a $1 million prize after playing the Gold Rush Doubler scratch-off game, Lottery officials confirmed this week.
A woman from South Florida hit the jackpot after playing a lottery scratch-off game, Lottery officials announced this week.
A southwest Florida man has been arrested for claiming to be a veterinarian and performing surgery on a pregnant dog who ended up dying of complications from the procedure.
If a child's birth name is William, but everyone calls him Billy, his teacher cannot call him Billy without getting a permission slip from his parents.
A man in southwest Florida has been charged with flooding a hospital’s emergency rooms after attacking a nurse and stripping off his clothes, authorities said.
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement asked the public for help on Friday evening with finding an 8-year-old girl from Escambia County.
A Hialeah Gardens murder suspect was transferred to Miami-Dade’s Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center Wednesday after he was located last month in Hendry Country.
A 66-year-old woman claimed her $1 million winnings this week after playing the 300X The Cash scratch-off game, Florida Lottery officials announced Tuesday.
A Florida doctor is accused of sexually assaulting at least two patients after providing them with laughing gas, medication and tequila.
A southwest Florida woman, who was wanted for allegedly not paying child support, reportedly bit a deputy while being arrested.
The Cuban pilot who defected in a Soviet-era biplane was supposed to be working on agricultural spraying work when he fled Friday to the United States, according to a Cuban government agency.
Emergency responders in Southwest Florida brought in some heavy equipment to help rescue a woman stuck in a massage chair.
Evacuation and relief efforts continued in Southwest Florida on Tuesday, as the death toll surpassed 100 from the devastation caused by Hurricane Ian.
Hurricane Ian’s aftermath in Lee and Collier counties means driving through inundated streets despite a gas shortage, shopping only with cash at the few stores open, staying away from damaged electric poles, and finding boats stuck in unlikely areas.
James Spinuzza was overwhelmed on Thursday morning. He found sand, fish, and mud inside his garage and home after Hurricane Ian made landfall north of his home in Naples.
Hurricane Ian’s storm surge was so high a mother who was with her son, as her police officer husband worked, was prepared to evacuate her second-floor apartment in Naples.
Hurricane Ian destroyed a cross-section of Florida, trapping people in flooded homes, forcing patients from nursing homes and hospitals, cutting off a popular barrier island and obliterating a historic waterfront pier. Nearly 2.7 million people lost power as rain fell and waters rose.
A cement truck slammed into Alligator Alley’s eastbound toll plaza Monday, leading to traffic congestion heading into South Florida, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.
Daniel Joseph Tisone, 35, of Naples, pleaded guilty Monday in Fort Myers federal court to wire fraud, bank fraud, illegal monetary transaction and possession of ammunition by a convicted felon, court documents show. He faces up to 60 years in federal prison at a hearing scheduled for Dec. 5.
A home health aide has been arrested for allegedly stealing from a 93-year-old woman she was hired to care for.
A home health aide has been arrested for allegedly stealing from a 93-year-old woman she was hired to care for.
A Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officer and a python contractor in Collier County uncovered quite a catch.
A python contractor and a Florida wildlife officer hit the motherlode in Big Cypress National Preserve Monday night, finding two female Burmese pythons, nearly 20 hatchlings and nearly 100 hatched and unhatched eggs amid efforts to rid Florida of the invasive species.
Paul John Flaucher, 30, is facing felony charges for animal abuse, after police say he was seen hitting seagulls with a shovel.
Collier County Sheriff’s deputies arrested a man who had a live baby alligator in a plastic tub and two firearms in his truck, during what they believed to a routine traffic stop.
A Hialeah man is facing grand theft auto and property damage charges in Collier County, after allegedly stealing a tractor-trailer truck worth $80,000.
A Naples man is facing child abuse and false imprisonment charges, after Collier County Sheriff’s deputies say he approached a three-year-old child and removed the child from a shopping cart in a Walmart parking lot on Sunday.
The Collier County Sheriff’s Office released bodycam footage of the Malayan tiger attack of a man who put his arm into a cage after hours at the Naples Zoo.
The Collier County Sheriff’s Office released bodycam footage of the Malayan tiger attack of a man who put his arm into a cage after hours at the Naples Zoo.
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Jose Ecarri says he and his pilot friend were flying from Tamiami to Arcadia to grab some tacos on Tuesday when the engine of their small plane failed and they landed in a remote area of the Florida Everglades — miraculously unscathed.
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FORT MYERS, Fla. – An endangered Florida panther has died after being struck by a vehicle. Wildlife officials say the remains of the 1-year-old male panther were found Sunday on Alligator Alley in Collier County just a few miles east of the toll plaza. On Friday, officials say the remains of a male panther cub were found on private land near the Collier County landfill. Florida panthers once roamed the entire Southeast. Up to 230 Florida panthers remain in the wild.
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COLLIER COUNTY, Fla. – A Miccosukee police officer died in a single-car crash in Collier County. Authorities said 43-year-old Officer Horacio Dominguez was traveling west on I-75 at Mile Marker 51 when his right rear tire suffered a blowout. Dominguez was ejected from his vehicle during the crash and was pronounced dead at the scene. According to Miccosukee police, Ofc. He is survived by his wife and young daughter.
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COLLIER COUNTY, Fla. – Forestry officials are still battling a dangerous and fast-moving brush fire in southwestern Florida that has grown even larger Friday to 8,600 acres. The portion of Interstate 75 (Alligator Alley) that was closed has reopened. Multiple residences in Collier County have been reported as destroyed or damaged. Agencies from Broward and Miami-Dade counties are sending firefighters to Collier to help battle the wildfire. A map of evacuation areas can be seen here from Collier County Emergency Management:Map of Evacuation Zones for the #36thAveSE fire.
BROWARD COUNTY, Fla. - A crash shut down the southbound lanes of Interstate 75 early Friday in western Broward County. According to the Florida Highway Patrol, there was a crash with injuries near mile marker 48 along the stretch of I-75 known as Alligator Alley, not far from the Collier County line. A view from Sky 10 showed a mangled mess of debris on the shoulder and an SUV with severe front-end damage on a flatbed truck. The boy was airlifted to Broward Health Medical Center in Fort Lauderdale. Copyright 2018 by WPLG Local10.com - All rights reserved.
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