https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/i-75-northbound-mm142-north-fort-myers-crash-roadblock-unknown/ Money & World en 2026-08-08T18:30:00.000Z The Florida Highway Patrol has a crash open on Interstate 75 northbound at mile marker 142 in North Fort Myers this Saturday afternoon, and its own dispatch board states the roadblock status there is unknown https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/graham-freeman-lee-county-teacher-eleven-counts-fdle-5-1-million-bond/ Money & World en 2026-08-08T18:10:00.000Z A Lee County middle school teacher is being held in the county jail on eleven felony counts filed by state agents, and the booking record shows why the count is eleven rather than one, because Florida law makes each individual image its own separate offence https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/bokeelia-boil-water-notice-cleared-pine-island-lee-health-department/ Money & World en 2026-08-08T15:40:00.000Z The Bokeelia boil water notice has been cleared, and the utility took it down about forty four and a half hours after it shut the main off, which is sooner than its own stated minimum implied https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/white-blvd-31st-street-sw-crash-roadblock-golden-gate-estates/ Money & World en 2026-08-08T13:57:00.000Z Westbound White Boulevard is open again at 31st Street Southwest in Golden Gate Estates, after a crash the Florida Highway Patrol logged as involving injuries held the road for about an hour and a half this morning https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/winding-cypress-naples-gofundme-cancer-grand-theft-charge-maribeth-jones/ Money & World en 2026-08-08T12:20:00.000Z A Naples community's activities director has been charged with grand theft after Collier County detectives said she told residents for two years that she had cancer, and GoFundMe has refunded more than forty one thousand dollars to the people who gave https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/edison-bridge-northbound-double-lane-closure-fort-myers-reopens-noon/ Money & World en 2026-08-08T11:45:00.000Z Two of the three northbound lanes of the Edison Bridge have been closed since eight o'clock last night and are not due back until around noon today, which is six hours later than the nightly closures on this bridge normally end https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/lee-county-sheriff-41-million-increase-request-342-million-budget/ Money & World en 2026-08-08T11:45:00.000Z The Lee County Sheriff's Office has asked commissioners for 41 million dollars more next year, and the county's own budget book shows the office already costs 342 million, against 193 million eight budget years ago https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/collier-county-fy2027-tentative-budget-millage-3-0107-trim-notice/ Money & World en 2026-08-08T11:30:00.000Z Collier County has set the property tax rates that will print on this month's TRIM notices at exactly last year's numbers, and because taxable value rose 3.5 percent that flat rate still raises 21 million dollars more https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/collier-area-transit-151-warn-mv-transportation-wedriveu-radio-road/ Money & World en 2026-08-08T10:10:00.000Z The state layoff notice behind Collier County's bus contract change lists 151 jobs at the Radio Road depot, and the union says nothing in law guarantees the incoming operator will carry over wages, benefits or the bargaining unit https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/palm-beach-boulevard-davis-crash-injuries-fort-myers-i75-mm148/ Money & World en 2026-08-08T09:55:00.000Z The Florida Highway Patrol has an injury crash open on Palm Beach Boulevard at Davis Boulevard in Fort Myers this Saturday morning, and its own board does not say whether the road is blocked, only that the roadblock status there is unknown https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/cape-coral-boil-water-se-5th-court-23-acres-se-13th-street-lifted/ Money & World en 2026-08-08T08:05:00.000Z Cape Coral has one boil water area live this morning, a 23 acre shape at 3622 SE 5th Court that went up on Friday morning and has not moved since, and it replaced a notice the city had carried at 1135 SE 13th Street for 94 hours https://moneyandworld.com/technology/data-center-water-usage/ Money & World en 2026-08-08T00:00:00.000Z The data center water figure everyone quotes measures 2014, and most of it is power plants https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/daniels-parkway-danport-crash-roadblock-i75-debris-fort-myers/ Money & World en 2026-08-07T04:45:00.000Z The crash that blocked the left and centre lanes of Daniels Parkway at Danport Boulevard in Fort Myers cleared about half an hour after it was logged, and the debris the same board had across the southbound lanes of Interstate 75 a third of a mile away has gone with it https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/city-of-palms-park-consultant-card-associates-federal-forfeiture-fort-myers/ Money & World en 2026-08-07T02:40:00.000Z The consultant Fort Myers hired to scope the redevelopment of City of Palms Park is run by a man whose Marco Island home federal prosecutors are trying to seize, and the city says it is proceeding as planned for now https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/hyper-club-542-acre-collier-motorsports-plan-panther-habitat-petition/ Money & World en 2026-08-07T00:50:00.000Z A plan to turn a 542-acre former Ford test track in eastern Collier County into a private motorsports club with homes has drawn close to 10,000 petition signatures and objections from two conservation groups https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/fort-myers-ramsey-way-preschool-searched-after-driver-fled-traffic-stop/ Money & World en 2026-08-07T00:35:00.000Z Fort Myers police taped off part of a shopping plaza on Ramsey Way and searched a preschool after a driver ran from a traffic stop, and everyone inside the school was found safe https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/stan-gober-bridge-goodland-daytime-lane-closures-deck-beam-repairs/ Money & World en 2026-08-06T22:50:00.000Z Daytime lane closures are coming back to the Stan Gober bridge at Goodland within a fortnight, this time for work under the deck, and the flaggers are the part drivers will feel https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/lee-county-cyclosporiasis-32-cases-state-352-broward-passes-lee/ Money & World en 2026-08-06T20:35:00.000Z Lee County's cyclosporiasis count reached 32 in the state's Thursday update, and Broward passed it to take second place after adding twelve cases in a single week https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/bokeelia-water-main-break-boil-water-notice-north-of-pineland-road/ Money & World en 2026-08-06T18:45:00.000Z Bokeelia has no water north of Pineland Road while a main is repaired, and the utility says the boil water notice starts running only once the taps come back on