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Sheriff's latest political endorsement raises familiar questions. Mike Scott says he didn't know his picture was being used by a candidate he's endorsed. More>>
New information on that single Mom, who's stuck with a faulty air conditioning unit in her new house. At first, the builder at Kelly Contractors, and the subcontractor kept passing the buck... More>>
Spencer Cordell is a criminal defense attorney. He handles a lot of D-U-I cases and knows how impossible it is to get one of his client's mug shots taken down. More>>
Busted and accused of drunk driving, but you will never see her mug shot online, or in the paper. The Lee County Sheriff's Office refuses to give it out. More>>
The paintball splotch on the sign at the BP gas station on 41 & Hanson Street in Fort Myers is hard to miss.
But if the shooter was hoping to send a message to BP, he or she may've missed the mark More>>
Four in Your Corner getting answers for some restaurant employees who got shafted, when the place suddenly closed. They want to know what's taking so long for them to get the paychecks they have coming. More>>
Fox 4 showed viewers a letter signed by the superintendent back in April showing it wouldn't be done until September. The question he's avoided until now. Why didn't he tell the board members and the public? More>>
Some restaurant workers say they showed up at Luna Rossa restaurant on San Carlos Boulevard near Fort Myers Beach, and found the doors locked. More>>
Paulette Reese tells FOX 4, as soon as she cooked these steaks for her family -- she wanted to give them right back. More>>
Have you ever "Googled" yourself? If you found a lot, that's the tip of the iceberg of your private information. Four In Your Corner exposes this "Deep Web": the much more personal side of the internet. More>>
After a six month stall, workers begin removing asbestos found at Fort Myers construction site. More>>
School board candidates jumped the superintendent along with fellow board members…all wanting to know when this audit will get done. Fox 4 went straight to Dr. Browder to get answers. More>>
Four in your corner shows you how "The Academy" aims to keep new Fort Myers police officers safe...in this special report. More>>
It seems nobody wants to own up to anything when it comes to Fort Myers burning your recycling. Four In Your Corner uncovers and digs through hundreds of internal city emails -- to get to the truth. More>>
County officials call it a "sleeping giant." A problem in Lake Okeechobee could cost billions in repairs, kill tourism, and devastate the gulf. More>>
Two handguns brought onto two separate Lee County school campuses by 15 year-olds. More>>
It looks like marijuana....and it feels like marijuana - just five times stronger. The incense is soaked in a man-made version of T-H-C...the ingredient in marijuana that gets you high. More>>
A team of paranormal divers wants to find out if the men who died in a Cape Coral canal are still here…perhaps in spirit. More>>
More claims from people who say someone drugged them at the Blue Martini nightclub in Naples. More>>
GOP Senate Candidates weigh in on LCEC customer concerns and long school bus rides. More>>
Doctors at Childrens Hospital Los Angeles are pioneering newer technology. Patrick shows you how to test your baby's vision. More>>
Fort Myers police arrested Robert Orsini and charged him with growing and selling marijuana...a first degree felony. They say they found 189 pot plants in his house. More>>
The son of Cape Coral's police chief, who's an officer himself, is pleading guilty to a series of federal crimes. Steve Petrovich and four other men are accused of manipulating southwest Florida's imploding housing market for personal profit. More>>
A Southwest Florida Mother dedicated to protecting young people from online threats is not happy to hear about the police's blow off a death threat against a Cape Coral student. More>>
Cape Coral mayor John Sullivan is sounding off about some city employee salaries. Some workers are making more a year in overtime than others do in salary.
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The Charlotte County Sheriff's Office released Publix surveillance video of the woman stealing a woman's purse out of her shopping cart in the Charlotte Harbor store on January 28th. More>>
Lee Sheriff's deputies have arrested a 16-year-old, accusing him of hacking into the system. Deputies say he was able to get into the system when he got a legitimate user name and password. More>>
Some Cape Coral taxpayers want to know what's behind the sharp spike in water rates at a time when so many are struggling to pay their bills. More>>
Eric Grill says he turned over a man to the Sheriff's Office. More>>
Collier Deputies stopped the car, pulled out their guns, and placed everyone under arrest. But it's what happened after that led the local NAACP to call for an investigation. More>>
As our inbox filled up with customers complaining about LCEC, Four In Your Corner began asking more questions of LCEC. More>>
$65,000 dollars. Investigators say Eric Grill spread it all over town. More>>
Lee County Sheriff Mike Scott blasted a county commissioner, saying "stay out of my personal business". But it's what Scott wrote in an e-mail to that commissioner that is raising eyebrows. More>>
You might be surprised about the LCEC trustee nominees you get to choose from, and who put them on the ballot in the first place. More>>
Fox 4's Pooja Lodhia take hundreds of viewer questions and concerns to LCEC, hoping to get some answers. More>>
Debbie Swegman pays her bills on time. DEB: "It seems like I paid a deposit for someone else." Still, LCEC hit her with a $325 deposit. Here's what happened. 7 years ago, Debbie moved out of her house...and More>>
A follow up to a story we first told you about last week...Why sheriff's deputies in Collier County are getting special treatment when they're arrested. A deputy is accused of fraud. Tonight, the sheriff's More>>
BOB CHILMONIK: "There is no time card...there's no boss". School board member Bob Chilmonik explains to 4 In Your Corner about the duties of a board member's job. BOB CHILMONIK: "you can put as many hours More>>
Some people think it's entirely too invasive. The scanners are similar to night vision technology, but the question is how can it detect explosives that don't give off heat? More>>
Three massage therapists are behind bars, accused of offering customers more than just massages. The "Asian Massage" in Naples was open for business this afternoon. Detectives arrested a 43 year -old More>>
Tyson Richardson of Lehigh AcresAuthorities release the name of the man officers killed after a home invasion. Cape Coral police shot and killed 21-year-old Tyson Richardson of Lehigh Acres on Sunday. More>>
Investigators are looking into the center's executive director, Jean Mekeel, to find out whether she embezzled more than 50,000 dollars over a period of a year. More>>
The flag was flying high and proud at the First United Methodist Church went a vandal took it and set it on fire. More>>
Florida Fish and Wildlife is investigating how four men went overboard in the Caloosahatchee River leaving one man dead. More>>
School board member Bob Chilmonik tells Fox 4 he's embarrased and frustrated, saying it's ridiculous the board can't seem to get the facts right. More>>
The bus problems lead to another big day on a local radio talk show....Fox News Radio. More>>
Grill is accused of taking more than $65,000 dollars from clients for construction jobs his company never completed. The sheriff tells Fox 4 his investigators began working on the case nearly a year ago. More>>
The school board keeps telling us you don't mind putting your little kids on school busses for 4 hours a day. So at Tuesday's school board meeting, we took all your complaints right to them. More>>
It appears transportation director Charles Dailey lied to you, so why isn't anything being done about it? More>>
Why is transportation director Charles Dailey allowed to fudge the truth, and even lie to the public -- at least twice? Fox 4 digs for answers. More>>
A school bus bummer for taxpayers: The money you pay to the school district on your property tax bill is funding one of the most expensive bussing systems in the whole state. More>>
The state's top police agency gives its final report on complaints some of sheriff scott's former employees filed against him. The first line of the F-D-L-E report says it all: "No evidence to support More>>
Sheriff Mike Scott speaks out about a new twist in his battle with the News-Press. A internationally renowned media organization is now stepping into the fray. More>>
Fox 4 wants to know why Superintendent James Browder doesn't want school board members to ride a bus picked at random by viewers. More>>
Marielena Montisino de Stuart is no longer allowed on Ave Maria University Campus. More>>
There's another reason why Lee County school board members aren't allowed to get on a random bus. Transportation director Charles Dailey is worried about sexual predators. Last week, he told bus drivers, More>>
Fox 4's Marisa Mendelson caught up with Congressman Connie Mack on his trip to Naples to ask about health care concerns from his constituents. More>>
Why does the board need a permission slip to see what your kids go through every day…commutes up to 4 hours a day...even in elementary school? More>>
We are down to three invites left to deliver to 3 school board members on riding the 2 hour bus route to school and home. More>>
Ave Maria University has banned her from press conferences and the campus. More>>
Fox 4 used a measuring wheel to figure out exactly how far the original bus stop is, and how far the new bus stop is. More>>
E-mails obtained by a Florida newspaper show Gov. Charlie Crist's aides knew about President Barack Obama's visit to Florida in October. More>>
A family is searching for their missing horse, as the Sheriff's office investigates. All on the same day a Miami man is facing charges for slaughtering horses. More>>
Almost a week after our "Stuck on a bus" story, the School District finally tells us why this happens. More>>
Governor, Charlie Crist is taking some heat from critics within his own party that's he's not conservative enough to be Florida's next senator. More>>
An angry dad comes to Four In Your Corner...sick about what's happening to his 12 year old daughter. More>>
The letter came to our boss here at Fox 4. The congressman tells her he's disappointed in our stories. He accuses us of "mischaracterizing" what his office can actually do for you. More>>
It was a dramatic day in court. The brother of a three year old boy who was beaten to death by his mother's boyfriend took the stand and described what he saw. More>>
Rob: SCHOOL BOARD MEMBER BOB CHILMONIK TELLS THE OTHERS ABOUT OUR STORIES...AND ASKS FOR ANSWERS.
Chilmonik : "I would like some explanation to as of how we bring students into the school and protect More>>
It's the story that has so many people talking. How some 5 year olds, were dropped off at the wrong bus stop with no parents there. Four In Your Corner finally got some answers from school officials. More>>
Four In Your Corner has been hammering away to get the school district spokesman to address parents' concerns. More>>
Council members first put the idea out there last month, hoping to save taxpayers some money. But have any council members taken the cut themselves? More>>
At a time when other county employees are taking a hit, state statute mandates the salary for elected officials. So, what are county commissioners doing with their pay raises? Fox 4 finds out. More>>
Here is a look at the Traffic Hot Spots from the Collier County Sheriff's Office. More>>
Fox 4 is back on the case again. Congressman Connie Mack is telling folks to see his staff if they need health care. But what happens when you do? More>>
From the outside, this vacation home looks like most around town. But one look at the back door, and the damage is clear: broken windows and broken door frames. More>>
The lawyers for the man accused of killing his wife and five children say he might have been insane at the time of the killings. So how do you determine if someone is insane? More>>
Could a Naples family's lives have been saved from a senseless murder? Natalie Quintero with the Shelter For Abused Women And Children says it may have been possible. "The job of an advocate is murder More>>
What you didn't see in Mesac Damas' taped confession with a Naples Daily News reporter. More>>
Collier County Sheriff's Detectives have brought Mesac Damas back to Naples to face murder charges. More>>
The Damas' aren't the first family to experience tragedy after the Department of Children of Families became aware of problems inside the home. More>>
The family found murdered in their Naples home had a history with DCF. Did the agency do enough to help? More>>
The Haitian-American community in Southwest Florida still reeling from the savage nature of a crime that took the lives of innocent children and their mother. Some say there's a cultural element to this. More>>
"The most horrfic and violent crime scene in Collier County history." More>>
Annual statistics compiled by the Lee County Sheriff's Office shows an overall drop in crime during 2008. More>>
It took 23 years and DNA testing to arrest Harvey Skrine for second degree murder. More>>
(Watch all our videos on our Lee County Schools page) 32 new supporters and counting are joining Don Armstrong's fight. They've signed up on his Facebook group page, "Lee County Florida School Bus Problem". More>>
A Cape Coral Grandma is angry with The Lee County School District. She can't believe what a bus driver told her little 8 year old granddaughter. More>>
Months after a Four In Your Corner Investigation, the owner of Mirage Pools is behind bars. Police in Port Saint Lucie arrested David Carol. More>>
4 In Your Corner hits the road to get answers for Mirage Pool customers with unfinished work. More>>
Former students or a Charlotte County motorcycle traffic school have to be re-tested. More>>
Code Compliance told a Punta Gorda man if he didn't clean up his crap by today, he'd have to pay a hefty fine. The TroubleShooter checks it out. More>>
Charlotte County is cracking down on what it calls a repeat code compliance offender. The TroubleShooter shows us what it took to get to this point. More>>
Who's trashing Charlotte County and what does it take to get something done about it? TroubleShooter Marisa Mendelson confronts the neighbor from Hell. More>>
If you have a consumer issue and you need Marisa's help to get it resolved, you can email or call the 4 In Your Corner TroubleShooter Hotline at (239) 829-1118. More>>
