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CAPE CORAL, Fla. — A child has been transported to a hospital after being found in a body of water behind a home in Cape Coral. According to the Cape Coral Police Department, the child was found in the body of water behind a home on Hancock Bridge Parkway on Sunday. Firefighters with the Cape Coral Fire Department conf

Florida Highway Patrol LEE COUNTY, Fla. — Florida Highway Patrol troopers arrested a Lehigh Acres...

Lee Health, the nonprofit hospital system anchoring Fort Myers and the rest of Southwest Florida, is walking away from its UnitedHealthcare contract, and the fallout lands squarely on Medicare Advantage enrollees. Beginning January 1, 2027, the system’s hospitals and physicians will no longer count as in-network for Un

VENICE, Fla. (WWSB) - A Blue Mass was held Sunday at Our Lady of Lourdes in Venice to honor and pray for first responders from Sarasota and Charlotte counties, including those who died in the line of duty. Mass held on 9/11 anniversary weekend. The Blue Mass took place on...

FORT MYERS, Fla. — Additional storms are in store for your Sunday as rain chances stay elevated. Your Gulf Coast Weather Most Accurate Forecast calls for most of the rain to fall this afternoon and evening; however, some communities along the coast will see some morning showers and storms.

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FORT MYERS, Fla. — There is a new area of interest we are monitoring in the Atlantic basin as of Sunday morning. Currently, a trough of low pressure with broad showers and thunderstorms is moving through the central subtropical Atlantic where development odds are low at this time, at 20% over the next seven days.

FORT MYERS, Fla. — Saturday is shaping up to be another stormy day along the Gulf Coast. While the morning will start off dry, rain chances are expected to climb again this afternoon. Your Gulf Coast Weather Most Accurate Forecast calls for storms to develop in the early afternoon...

Offshore powerboat racing returned to Fort Myers Beach, Fla., yesterday for the first time in five years with the qualifying round of the Super Stock-class Roar Offshore event sanctioned by the American Power Boat Association. The 30-minute round saw 17 take teams take to the right-and-left-turn course and led to a top

LEE COUNTY, Fla. — A Lehigh Acres woman is accused of violating the terms of her probation after a DUI arrest where officers found drugs in her car, according to Southwest Florida Crime Stoppers. Crime Stoppers says that Danielle Kelsor, 45, was initially arrested after being spotted driving erratically,...