A 30-year-old Golden Gate Estates man who had sex with a 17-year-old girl just weeks before she turned 18 was sentenced to 366 days in a state prison. Collier Circuit Judge Elizabeth Krier also sentenced Charles Edward Turner Jr., now 31, of 105 16th St. S.E., to two years of sex-offender house arrest and 10 years of sex-offender probation — all with a daily ankle monitor he must pay for so authorities can track his whereabouts.
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An East Naples man who was caught in the act when a mother found him inside her 14-year-old daughter’s bedroom — on top of her and exposing himself — was sentenced to county jail and sex-offender probation.
Lee County deputies took their efforts to serve the public beyond enforcing the law Sunday when they hosted a food and toy drive barbecue in Fort Myers.
Alabama and Texas Tech and their perfect records were on top of the BCS standings Sunday. Texas, Florida and Oklahoma, all with one loss, are lurking and ready to take advantage if the front-runners fall.
The Top 25 teams in The Associated Press college football poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Nov. 8, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote, and previous ranking:
The Grace United Methodist Church in North Fort Myers opened the doors at its new Community Center on Sunday. The congregation took over the old Winn Dixie for .2 million in 2007 plus paid for renovations.
This is what happens when you put an election official in charge of elections. Florida’s top election official last week rightfully claimed that a nearly seamless 2008 presidential contest should allow the state to shed the stigma of being the nation’s electoral klutz and move forward as a model of modern voting.
Two Golden Gate youngsters were found, unharmed, Sunday afternoon on Marco Island and have been returned to their families.
About 80,000 have attended the 22nd Annual American Sandsculpting Championship Festival, which started Thursday and ends today, said event chairman Andrew Cochran.
The Collier County school district has replaced zero with 50 as the lowest score a student can get on an assignment.
The mayor of North Miami is asking the Miami-Dade County courts to create a mortgage foreclosure diversion program to help folks stay in their homes – folks just like him.
A prominent fundraiser for Republican presidential candidate John McCain is being sued in Florida by an oil industry competitor for allegedly paying bribes in Jordan to maintain a monopoly on shipping fuel to U.S. military forces in Iraq.
A large study suggests a cholesterol drug dramatically lowers the risk of heart attack in people normally not considered to be at high risk.
The Fort Myers Police Department is hosting the statewide competition this weekend at the stadium in downtown Fort Myers.
A noticeably cooler start with lower humidity wakes us up this Sunday as more sunshine prevails.
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