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The National Press Club is coming to Naples tonight for a forum on the future of journalism.

The National Press Club is coming to Naples tonight for a forum on the future of journalism.

The National Press Club is coming to Naples tonight for a forum on the future of journalism.

Multiple sources are reporting, but NBC has not yet confirmed, that NBC Universal has signed Jay Leno to a new contract that would put him at the 10 p.m. time slot every weeknight.

The National Press Club is coming to Naples tonight for a forum on the future of journalism.

The National Press Club is coming to Naples tonight for a forum on the future of journalism.

The nation’s unemployment rate is at its highest level in 15 years, and Southwest Florida is being hit especially hard. But there are still places you can look to find a local job.

The FHSAA awarded the Gulf Coast High’s football team the state academic championship. The Sharks earned a 3.203 cumulative grade point average, highest of any Class 4A football team.

The Lee County Clerk of Courts office is winning its “War-on-Waste,” cutting a couple hundred-thousand dollars in needless spending since April. And employees are going to be taking home some of that savings.

Two fires ripped through two homes in Cape Coral Saturday night. Fire investigators say an unattended candle caused both fires.

For more than 25 years, Charlotte County Animal Control officers have been dropping off stray dogs and cats at Englewood’s Suncoast Humane Society.

A budget crunch has some Florida schools fighting a statewide constitutional amendment that would require schools to cut back on the number of students per class. But those changes will cost money, and Collier County’s superintendent says the timing couldn’t be worse.

A once-quiet Cape Coral neighborhood has been overrun by speeders, according to residents. The problems started after the city built a new bridge over the Zurich Canal on NE 16th place. But officials with the city say police have a plan to slow drivers down.

For the first time in history, Florida’s EMS medical director was called in to mediate a dispute between firefighters and EMS. Monday, all sides sat down in Collier County to hopefully end months of infighting that some say puts the public at risk.

Collier County Public Schools Superintendent Dennis Thompson will be answering questions from 5:30 to 6 p.m. today during this month’s edition of the live TV call-in show “Open Mic.”