Fort Myers Beach, Florida

It ultimately comes down to a toss of the coin or drawing straws. After Collier County elections officials recertify election numbers, a 244 to 244 tie vote in the race for Seat 4 in Fiddler’s Creek Community Development District will be resolved not by a run-off but drawn lots, according to Florida statutes. Candidates Peggy Schmitt and Robert Slater will first have to wait until the balance of absentee and provisional votes are counted, before they know if the tie is broken.

Dorothy Pullen, Executive Director of Hope for Haiti, announced the Naples-based agency has received authorization from the Haitian government to airlift needed medical supplies and food to the Les Cayes district in southern Haiti on Friday morning, Nov 7. A plane owned and piloted by Naples real estate broker, William Earls, will depart Naples Airport at 7:00 a.m. and carry a payload of 1,000 pounds of supplies.

Cape police are asking people to be on the lookout for a man who has soliciting students from a vehicle.

Barack Obama became the country’s first African-American President-Elect Tuesday night.　It was a day and an image 84-year-old Bertha DeMarco of Fort Myers thought she would never see.

NBC2 Ten-2-One High School Football rankings through Week 9.

Businesses on Fort Myers Beach hope to benefit from of one of the town’s most popular annual events. Thousands of people will attend this weekend’s sand sculpting championship.

A 76-year-old Oregon man was arrested in Lee County after he failed to register as a sex offender.

There are big brush fire concerns in Collier. In fact, the Division of Forestry has already started controlled burns on 1,300 acres in the Picayune Strand State Forest.

Republican Robert Skidmore of Englewood became the youngest person ever elected to the Charlotte County Commission, and now he’s ready to bring his own change.

In Collier County there’s one race that’s still too close to call. It is so close, the race may come down to a coin toss.

For 3 months, NBC2 Investigators have been working with emergency services collecting calls and riding with paramedics. We discovered a large number of calls coming into 911 are for anything but an emergency, which puts your safety at risk.

The tree dispute is one of several issues frustrating many Cape homeowners. Some of them are letting council members know exactly how they feel by sending angry emails. Now, it has the city considering new security measures

With all the elaborate, awe-inducing sand sculptures competing in this weekend’s festival, one question begs to be asked.

If the vote had gone differently Tuesday night, Superintendent Dennis Thompson expected to have a staff meeting Wednesday morning to talk about massive reductions and priorities. Instead, he was in a conference room with reporters and the talk of reductions was off the table — at least for now. Collier County voters approved the district’s referendum with 92,022 votes, or 78.62 percent. About 21 percent of the voters, or 25,021, voted no. The referendum needed 50 percent plus one of the vote to pass.