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Browsing Posts published on November 10, 2008

Three Florida community foundations have received million in grants to help military personnel who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan and their families.

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A deal to buy the Pepper Ranch in Immokalee heads to Collier County commissioners next week along with questions about the price. The Conservation Collier Land Acquisition Advisory Council voted 7-2 on Monday to recommend approval of a .2 million contract to buy the 2,500-acre ranch next to Lake Trafford.

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Home resales in the Fort Myers area rose for the tenth month in a row in October.

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Next week, the City of Cape Coral will have a new mayor. For now though, there is a new mayor pro tem.

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Detectives with the Cape Coral Police Department have arrested a suspect in a string of burglaries committed in the Cape.

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A boat was reduced to charred parts after catching on fire around 5 p.m. Monday evening.

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Deputies are asking for the public’s help in locating four Golden Gate Estates teenagers who ran away from home more than a week ago. They say one of the teens has a medical condition that requires treatment.

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He may eventually lose the Red Sox to another part of Lee County, but Fort Myers Mayor Jim Humphrey says his speaking out against them isn’t over sour grapes.

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The first load of toys arrived at the Salvation Army warehouse – a warehouse more secure than ever before.

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A whopping million in code violations is owed throughout Cape Coral and Fort Myers for things like lawns littered with trash. The fines keep piling up, but local cities will likely never get those millions back.

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Charlotte County residents still waiting for their new garbage cans found a new source of frustration Monday.

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People looking for a new home traditionally turn to brochures like these or maybe a real estate office, but in a tough market, agents are getting more creative.

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At a time when the Lee County school district’s budget is being cut by tens of millions of dollars, a Sanibel man is giving 0,000 for scholarships for the youngest students in the district.

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Lee County Sheriff’s deputies are investigating an alleged attempted sexual assault that the victim says occurred on Oct.

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One morning in 1944, an officer woke U.S. Army Air Forces Capt. Gregory Good at dawn. Good rose, washed his face, brushed his teeth and set down his toothbrush just so. On that day, the first of 30 such mornings, Good would pilot a plane that would leave Bassingbourn airbase, 11 miles southwest of Cambridge, England, and bomb European Axis targets. His superiors told him he had a 40 percent chance of making it through all 30 of his missions alive.

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