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      Your car isn't a gun safe: Cape Coral Police ask people to stop leaving guns in cars
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      Handyman faces felony after working on FTM Shores roof that collapsed, hurt man
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      PLEA DEAL: Teen murder suspect set to enter plea next month
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      DRESSED THE PART: Cape Coral burglar stopped by unlikely hero in Batman pajamas
      • DOGE cuts AmeriCorps funding, the effects are being seen on Pine Island

        Pine Island / Matlacha

        DOGE cuts AmeriCorps funding and the effects are being seen on Pine Island

        Bella Line
        FIB Testing

        Downtown Fort Myers

        Calusa Waterkeeper sounds the alarm for harmful bacteria in Manual's Branch

        Andrew Shipley
        Lee County Sheriff's Office

        Fort Myers Metro South

        LCSO honors K9 killed while protecting handler

        WFTX Digital Team
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        Fort Myers Beach

        Parking payments to change in Lee County

        WFTX Digital Team
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        Cape Coral

        Cape Coral is celebrating Earth Day, with a city-wide cleanup

        Victoria Quevedo
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        Fort Myers Beach

        Fort Myers Beach considers annexing San Carlos Island

        Anvar Ruziev
      • McCollum Hall

        Downtown Fort Myers

        Fort Myers City Council denies McCollum Hall developers' request for $4.2 mil

        Miyoshi Price
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        Florida Panthers

        PLAYOFF PANTHERS: Tkachuk questionable for game one in Tampa

        Alex Orenczuk
        Business owner and chamber hoping for brighter summer after harsh winter setbacks

        Pine Island / Matlacha

        Pine Island businesses struggle from winter setbacks

        Bella Line
      • Diplomat Elementary

        Cape Coral

        Legal loophole exposes gap in Florida law after threat to Diplomat Elementary

        Kaitlin Knapp
        Florida Highway Patrol

        Cape Coral

        ATV driver tries to escape Florida troopers

        WFTX Digital Team
        Dunbar Parade

        Downtown Fort Myers

        THE TRADITION CONTINUES: 81st Dunbar Easter Parade in Fort Myers

        Victoria Quevedo
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        Cape Coral

        17-year-old charged with aggravated assault at Marquee Cinemas

        Andrew Shipley
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        Downtown Fort Myers

        FWC investigating two incidents on water Saturday

        Andrew Shipley
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        Fort Myers Beach

        'The chairs are flying': Pipe burst shoots water in the air on Fort Myers Beach

        Austin Schargorodski
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        Captiva

        Captiva’s Mucky Duck restaurant begins rebuild after hurricane damage

        Anvar Ruziev
        W.P. Franklin Lock

        Alva

        Water releases from Lake Okeechobee comes into a question once again

        Andrew Shipley
        Dunbar parade set up STARS complex

        Downtown Fort Myers

        Fort Myers' Historic Dunbar Easter Parade returns Sunday for its 81st year

        Miyoshi Price
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        North Fort Myers

        Right Now: North Fort Myers brush fire is out, everyone evacuated can go home

        WFTX Digital Team
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        Fort Myers Metro South

        Deadly crash on I-75: Interstate shut down in Fort Myers

        WFTX Digital Team
        Fort Myers Police

        Fort Myers Beach

        FMPD officer seriously injured in crash, troopers say

        WFTX Digital Team
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        Local News

        Fort Myers tenants face eviction after shooting intruder in self-defense case

        Stephen Pimpo
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        Fort Myers Metro South

        Some in Fort Myers still can’t return home, after Hurricane Ian

        Anvar Ruziev
        Hurricane Ian

        North Fort Myers

        To stay or Go? USF looks into social science of hurricane evacuations

        Andrew Shipley
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        Lehigh Acres

        New details after Lehigh murder suspect appears in court

        WFTX Digital Team
        Leoma Lovegrove

        Cape Coral

        Prominent SWFL artist Leoma Lovegrove dies after cancer battle

        WFTX Digital Team
        No, Cape Coral is not getting a DOGE; but they are working on government efficiency!

        Cape Coral

        Cape Council votes to implement government efficiency training and team

        Bella Line
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        Fort Myers Metro South

        Gov. DeSantis slams House plan to cut trooper jobs and gear in proposed budget

        Austin Schargorodski
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        Cape Coral

        'Disturbing': Woman charged with pepper-spraying dogs at Cape Coral park

        Miyoshi Price
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        Sanibel

        Florida Legislature pushing bill to control over regulating plastics

        Andrew Shipley
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        Cape Coral

        Autism diagnosis rates are on the rise, but why?

        Bella Line
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        Cape Coral

        Cape Coral woman arrested for pepper spraying dogs, police say

        WFTX Digital Team
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        Fort Myers Beach

        FL governor to speak in Fort Myers, today

        WFTX Digital Team
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        Fort Myers Metro South

        Fort Myers Beach group teaches people how to respectfully interact with dolphins

        Anvar Ruziev
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        Downtown Fort Myers

        The City of Fort Myers is talking about making downtown a Culinary District

        Miyoshi Price
        Faster, Smarter, Safer: Cape Coral Fire gets its first live fire training facility

        Cape Coral

        Faster, Smarter, Safer: Cape Coral Fire gets first live fire training facility

        Bella Line
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        Lehigh Acres

        Lehigh man arrested after making mass shooting threats on 'X', deputies say

        WFTX Digital Team
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        Cape Coral

        Power restored after thousands impacted by outage

        WFTX Digital Team
        City of Cape Coral

        Cape Coral

        New initiative to eliminate government waste in Cape Coral

        WFTX Digital Team
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        Estero

        Estero firefighters welcome home boy who they helped rescue

        WFTX Digital Team
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        Lee County

        Fatal stabbing suspect had schizophrenia, history of alarming behavior: report

        Ella Rhoades
        The Carlton

        Fort Myers Metro South

        Deadly shooting at Fort Myers apartments may fall under Stand Your Ground law

        WFTX Digital Team
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        Bonita Springs

        Bonita Springs firefighters save ducklings

        WFTX Digital Team
        Lee County Sheriff's Office

        Lehigh Acres

        LCSO: One person in critical condition after Lehigh Acres crash

        WFTX Digital Team
        Lee County Sheriff's Office

        Downtown Fort Myers

        FATAL: Deputies provide update to Pine Manor investigation

        WFTX Digital Team
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        Fort Myers Metro South

        Sanibel automated speed cameras reduce school zone speeding by 98%

        Anvar Ruziev
        MOLD

        Downtown Fort Myers

        A woman is being moved from a Fort Myers Housing Authority complex due to mold

        Miyoshi Price
        Prayer scam leaves Bonita Springs woman missing thousands in property

        Bonita Springs

        Trio came to pray. They left stealing thousands from Bonita Springs woman: LCSO

        Bella Line
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        Cape Coral

        Two injured after driver hits motorcycle, Cape Coral police say

        WFTX Digital Team
        Police

        Lee County

        LCSO investigates robbery in Lee County

        Victoria Quevedo
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