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The long-awaited taxiway at Marco Island Executive Airport is cleared for takeoff with a recently approved $5.5 million grant, Collier County officials said Thursday.

A Lee County father, who accidentally killed his infant daughter by leaving her in the backseat of his hot car, pleaded guilty to a felony charge today.

This is a story about a brainy guy in a cowboy hat who plays hard rock, soft love songs, ballads, blues, white gospel, black gospel, medium-weight metal and all sorts of other music, from Afrobeat to zydeco, from Aerosmith to ...

Location, location, location. While Marco Island residents want to know where the proposed charter high school will be, proponents say they’re more concerned about if it will be. Opposition comes from residents living near the school’s proposed startup location, which ...

Core classes such as English and math must be limited to 18 students in pre-kindergarten through third grade, 22 students in fourth through eighth grades and 25 students in high school by the start of the 2010-11 school year. The ...

Elliot Cortes said his 2-year-old Chihuahua Chloe was chased from his backyard and killed by a pit bull or bull dog.

Two Isles of Capri brothers found themselves in deep water on Monday night when their pickup truck ran off the road and into a lake.

A 47-year-old Jacksonville man died while in transit to a Collier County hospital following the report of a potential drowning in an East Naples pool on Sunday night, said Collier County Sheriff's Office officials.

The Rev. Jeremiah Wright, President Barack Obama's controversial former pastor, accused people who wrongly believe Obama is Muslim of catering to political enemies during a fiery speech Sunday in Arkansas.

As the Collier County School Board races head into the November general election, all six of the candidates will need to pick up votes if they hope to reach the 50 percent plus 1 vote needed to secure the election. ...

While Naples Fire Chief Steve McInerny is praising City Council for adding two firefighters to the Naples Fire Department, Chief Rita Greenberg just had to lay off three of her firefighters at the Big Corkscrew Island Fire and Rescue District. ...

Hunters use fox pens to train their hunting dogs and to stage competitions in which dogs are judged on how well they pursue their prey. It’s all about the chase, not the kill, they say. Animal activists, on the other ...

Although the School Board will not begin that search until the new board is seated in November, the clock is ticking as Superintendent Dennis Thompson’s contract winds down and expires July 31, 2011. Florida's top expert in the field says ...

The release of new FEMA flood maps represents the first change in the flood plain designations in the county in more than a decade. The changes, unveiled at a recent series of meetings held by county government staff, will force ...

A former Collier County commissioner, John Pistor, passed away early Friday morning. He was 95 years old.