Cape Coral FL

Edison Festival of Light is proud to announce local legend, Sammy Sirianni, Jr., as the Grand Marshall for the Edison Festival of Light Grand Parade. Southwest Florida’s two-week celebration returns in February 2026, signing off with its signature Grand Parade, lighting up downtown Fort Myers. Since 1938, the parade...

Florida is the No. 3 state in the nation for reported cases of human trafficking. USF reports that there were 700,000 people exploited in Florida in 2024 — 500,000 through labor trafficking and 200,000 through sex trafficking. The community must know how to uproot human trafficking and replant love,...

DESOTO COUNTY, Fla. — A Lehigh Acres man was killed early Monday morning after being hit by a car while attempting to secure a semitruck trailer. According to the Florida Highway Patrol report, the crash happened around 4:30 a.m. on State Road 72 near SW Thigpen Avenue. A man was standing in the road behind a...

Lee County has the distinction of being the home of the first Veterans Memorial Reef dedicated to all U.S. veterans using a military ship. On July 2, 2012, the USS Mohawk was towed from Fort Myers some 30 miles off of Sanibel Island before being scuttled in 90 feet of water by six strategically placed charges meant...

A Fort Myers woman was arrested Friday at the Gaylord Palms Hotel when Osceola County Sheriff's deputies say she dunked a child underwater during a confrontation with her own child. Tiffany Lee Griffith, 36, was arrested and charged with aggravated child abuse and was booked into the Osceola County Jail,...

State food and health inspectors temporarily closed NMR Caribbean Restaurant on Cleveland Avenue in Lee County, FL, recently, after discovering 15 violations during a complaint-driven inspection, including evidence of rodents and roaches throughout the facility.

Authorities in Florida are asking for the public’s help in finding two men who went missing after heading out on a fishing trip. On Saturday, Dec. 20, the Lee County Sheriff’s Office (LCSO) said it had launched an urgent search for Randall Spivey and Brandon Billmaier following what the agency described as an...

PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. — The Charlotte County Sheriff’s Office arrested a woman now charged with stabbing a man, who has life-threatening injuries. According to a police report, the man was found near Kenesaw and Cedarwood streets on Sunday afternoon. Deputies said they found him bleeding from his left...

The Lee County Sheriff's Office is located 17-year-old Peter Campanella after going missing paddleboarding near Bunche Beach Sunday afternoon.

FORT MYERS, Fla. (CBS12) — An undocumented 12-year-old is accused of targeting other minors in back-to-back armed robberies, threatening victims with a knife. Deputies with the Lee County Sheriff's Office say that on the evening of December 12, they recieved a call reporting an armed robbery at Schandler Hall...