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Upwards of 25,000 people were expected to flock to Naples’ beaches Wednesday night for the 30-minute show.

Two Lely High School students stabbed a 51-year-old garden worker to death and dragged his lifeless body into a nearby stand of woods in East Naples, all in an effort to steal his wallet, according to Collier County detectives, as well as neighbors and an employer who identified the victim.
Juan Jose Barrientos Jr., 17, 111 Tomato Road, and Jesus Rene Garza Jr., 18, 113 Tomato Road, then tried to sell the man’s electric saw before eventually cleaning a car of the victim’s blood, according to statements they gave detectives.

Two Lely High School students stabbed a 51-year-old garden worker to death and dragged his lifeless body into a nearby stand of woods in East Naples, all in an effort to steal his wallet, according to Collier County detectives, as well as neighbors and an employer who identified the victim.
Juan Jose Barrientos Jr., 17, 111 Tomato Road, and Jesus Rene Garza Jr., 18, 113 Tomato Road, then tried to sell the man’s electric saw before eventually cleaning a car of the victim’s blood, according to statements they gave detectives.

Originally posted by Adam Freeman on: Thursday, January 01, 2009 Last updated on: 1/1/2009 5:32:42 PM LEE COUNTY : Over 200 people participated in the ninth annual Polar Plunge on Sanibel Island.

Originally posted by Adam Freeman on: Thursday, January 01, 2009 Last updated on: 1/1/2009 5:32:42 PM LEE COUNTY : Over 200 people participated in the ninth annual Polar Plunge on Sanibel Island.

Trout season opens on New Year‘s Day, and there is no better remedy for a hangover than a little trout fishing on the grass beds in the Ten Thousand Islands.

Punta Gorda Police have made an arrest in the theft of an ATM machine on Christmas Day.

Sixteen-year-old Elizabeth Selenke suffered severe head injuries in a motorcycle accident nearly two weeks ago. Her loved ones held a vigil Thursday to try to wake her from her coma.

The first baby of the year in Lee County was born just after midnight at HealthPark. Raising a child in this day and age will undoubtedly be an expensive undertaking.

Over 200 people participated in the ninth annual Polar Plunge on Sanibel Island. The participants splashed into the no-so-cold Gulf of Mexico Thursday afternoon.

For a few months, it rose to the level of fever pitch.
A study, generated to explore the possibility of raising tolls on the Judge S.S. Jolley Bridge, raised more than just a little ruckus in Marco Island.
But since August, the din has grown quiet over how to replace the Jolley Bridge, built in 1969 as one of two routes on and off Marco Island.
As officials from the city and Collier County describe it, the issue is in a holding pattern while they wait to find out whether several sources of alternative funding are available.

For a few months, it rose to the level of fever pitch.
A study, generated to explore the possibility of raising tolls on the Judge S.S. Jolley Bridge, raised more than just a little ruckus in Marco Island.
But since August, the din has grown quiet over how to replace the Jolley Bridge, built in 1969 as one of two routes on and off Marco Island.
As officials from the city and Collier County describe it, the issue is in a holding pattern while they wait to find out whether several sources of alternative funding are available.

To know Buddy Brunker was to like him. That is the way friends and colleagues remembered the 65-year-old humanitarian, who passed away Dec. 20 after a five-year battle with multiple myeloma, a cancer of the plasma cells.

Just after 12:30 p.m., the Division of Forestry received a call about a brush fire at Jaguar Boulevard and Roma Avenue in Lehigh Acres.