While washing his hands in a Sanibel pond, a man was bitten by an alligator and seriously injured, the city said.
Katie Banauch was last seen on Sept. 29 when she told a friend she was going to her ex-husband's home to pick up some belongings.
A North Fort Myers woman pulled a gun on two women she thought were trying to cut a gas station line, Fort Myers police said.
A toll worker was seriously injured after a semi-truck crashed into a Collier County toll plaza on I-75, Florida Highway Patrol said.
The seventh-grade student attends Fort Myers Middle School, police said.
The brothers broke into a Cape Coral gun shop early Wednesday and stole guns and ammunition, police say.
Mary Jane Wright, 37, of Cape Coral has been charged with child neglect without great bodily harm.
Bruno, a chocolate Lab, was rescued shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine. He is now the newest member of the Fort Myers Police Department.
A 17-year-old student faces charges after sending a threatening text to another teen, Fort Myers police said.
A 10-year-old boy threatened a shooting at a Cape Coral school less than a week after 21 people died in a Texas school shooting, police say.
A Naples towing company removed a gator from an SUV that dragged it for miles along U.S. 41 in Collier County early Monday, reports said.
A Florida man faces multiple felony charges after a live baby gator, drugs and hidden guns were found in his pick-up truck, CCSO said.
Police say the Cape Coral-based ring was trafficking cocaine, fentanyl, heroin, methamphetamine, marijuana and other various drugs.
An unauthorized employee was attacked in the tiger enclosure at Wooten’s Everglades Airboats’ animal sanctuary during feeding time.
A TX man was charged with 4 counts of human smuggling after a FL traffic stop. He was driving 4 undocumented immigrants to Miami, FHP said.
A Fort Myers man was sentenced to 22 years and 6 months in federal prison for receiving illegal drugs in the mail, firearms charges: DOJ.
A total of 79 people lost their lives last year in those accidents.
The Fort Myers Fire Department is receiving $251,000 from FEMA to install vehicle exhaust collection units in in each fire station.
Fort Myers Police Department personnel could be reporting to a new headquarters building within the next 18 months.
Authorities say there was no shooter at the Chico's headquarters in Fort Myers. The sheriff is trying to determine what prompted the report.
The 15-year-old died after falling overboard and being struck in the head by a boat propeller, according to officials.
A Florida man is accused of trying to elude police by swimming across an algae-covered canal — until he got a mouthful of the nasty water.
City police Chief Derrick Diggs said one suspect has been taken into custody
Authorities say the 31-year-old man resisted arrest and an officer deployed his Taser twice.
As communities struggle to recover from Hurricane Irma, continued power outages pose a myriad of risks.
Thousands are staying in a shelter with a leaky roof as Hurricane Irma approaches the Fort Myers area.
A Florida Amber Alert had been issued for a 14-year-old girl from Fort Myers, but was canceled minutes later.