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      <news:title>The death in Sunday night&#39;s mobile home fire on Hibiscus Lane was not suspicious, the Collier County Sheriff&#39;s Office has told WINK News, and the State Fire Marshal has taken over the investigation into what started it</news:title>
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      <news:title>Cape Coral&#39;s active boil water layer has gone from three areas to five since this morning, and the two additions are records the city first opened on 17 August, doubling the acreage under a precautionary notice</news:title>
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      <news:title>The two right lanes are open again on northbound Interstate 75 at mile marker 144 in North Fort Myers, and the state&#39;s own note on the crash it logged there at 9.16 now reads that the roadway is clear</news:title>
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      <news:title>Northbound Interstate 75 through Lee County took three crash calls in twelve minutes this morning, and the one the state is still carrying has the two right lanes blocked at mile marker 144 in North Fort Myers</news:title>
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      <news:title>The Florida Highway Patrol now records the roadway as clear at Palm Beach Boulevard and Broadway Street in Alva, closing out a morning that began with the corridor shut and no close parallel route to take instead</news:title>
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      <news:title>Southwest Florida International Airport proposes to charge the airlines $16.64 for every departing passenger next year, up from $14.03, and the rise is bond coverage on the terminal expansion rather than the cost of running the place</news:title>
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      <news:title>A school bus carrying one student was in a minor crash with a car near East 8th Street and Joel Boulevard in Lehigh Acres on Tuesday morning, and the fire department reported no injuries</news:title>
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      <news:title>The full roadblock the Florida Highway Patrol had on Palm Beach Boulevard at Broadway Street in Alva has come down to the right lane, on a crash with injuries the state is still carrying open in the morning peak</news:title>
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      <news:title>Work has started on the Royal Palm Park fishing pier in Tice, Lee County has now put the closure in writing on its own page, and a dollar figure has appeared for the first time</news:title>
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      <news:title>Cape Coral Parkway closes a leg of Vincennes Street overnight from nine on Tuesday, the second of eight intersections being rewired, with the other six queued for the week of 31 August</news:title>
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      <news:title>Lee County opened two more boil water notices at lunchtime on Monday, one of them the third main break in the Villas in four days, and the Chandler Avenue notice from Friday morning has now been open more than ninety hours</news:title>
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      <news:title>Cape Coral is carrying three active boil water areas, two of them opened on Monday and one that has now stood since 18 August, while every area the city was working through on Friday has been cleared</news:title>
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      <news:title>The National Hurricane Center now puts the eastern Atlantic disturbance at 70 percent and says a tropical depression is likely within days, while the Bermuda system it was tracking has slipped to 40 percent, and neither area is forecast toward Southwest Florida</news:title>
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      <news:title>The larger Bonita Springs brush fire is ninety five per cent contained at seventy acres, and the smaller fire the two newsrooms could not agree on last night now reads the same way in both</news:title>
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      <news:title>Cape Coral has put a drilling rig into Northwest 16th Terrace to find out why the road and a driveway on it are sinking, and until it reports back the city has told the homeowners not to drive on their own concrete</news:title>
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      <news:title>The larger Bonita Springs brush fire is now eighty per cent contained at seventy acres, the first containment figure tonight that two newsrooms report the same way, while the two differ on the smaller fire</news:title>
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      <news:title>Neighbours on Southwest Third Terrace in Cape Coral say their street already floods after heavy rain, and they are asking what a proposed affordable housing development with a lake and two four storey buildings will do to it once the city finishes reviewing the plans</news:title>
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      <news:title>The revenue was the cheap part</news:title>
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      <news:title>Four funds, four clocks, and the deadline that arrives first</news:title>
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      <news:title>The larger of the two brush fires near Bonita Beach Road in Bonita Springs is now seventy acres and sixty five per cent contained, and the Florida Forest Service has crews and dozers still working both of them</news:title>
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      <news:title>Immigration agents made arrests and detentions across Lee County on Monday morning, drivers reported repeated stops along Interstate 75, and the agency says it will not discuss the operation</news:title>
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      <news:title>Cape Coral police say a man took an e-bike from outside a Del Prado Boulevard business, came back while officers were still there to claim the hundred dollar reward for finding it, and was arrested at his home</news:title>
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      <news:title>There are now two brush fires near Bonita Beach Road in Bonita Springs, and the Florida Forest Service puts the larger one at sixty acres and fifteen per cent contained</news:title>
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      <news:title>One person died in the trailer home fire on Hibiscus Lane in Naples, the Collier County Sheriff&#39;s Office has now confirmed, and investigators still have not said what started it</news:title>
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      <news:title>A brush fire near Bonita Beach Road and Tower Road in Bonita Springs has grown from half an acre to an estimated five and is nought per cent contained, and the fire district is asking people to stay away from it</news:title>
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      <news:title>A week after Landin Ahrens was found dead beside State Road 29, Southwest Florida Crime Stoppers is offering a cash reward for information leading to an arrest and the Highway Patrol says it has nothing new on the car</news:title>
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      <news:title>The Lee County Sheriff&#39;s Office says deputies broke up two separate cockfighting operations over the weekend, one found by accident while crews worked a mobile home fire on Westwood Acres Road and the other in a Lehigh Acres backyard, and that 136 birds were removed and two men were arrested</news:title>
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      <news:title>The National Hurricane Center has raised the Bermuda area low to a 50 percent chance of forming and a second disturbance southeast of the Cabo Verde islands now carries the tracking number 96L, and neither of the two areas the outlook is carrying threatens Southwest Florida</news:title>
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      <news:title>Collier County mailed its 2026 TRIM notices on August 17, which puts the deadline to challenge a property value at September 11, and the two county offices that publish that deadline do not state the same closing time</news:title>
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      <news:title>Fort Myers Beach town council voted unanimously on Monday morning to approve the final details of the Roar Offshore powerboat races and to waive the town&#39;s noise restrictions for the weekend, bringing the event back four years after Hurricane Ian put it on hold</news:title>
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      <news:title>Fort Myers police say a fire set outside an occupied home in the 100 block of Williams Street on Sunday night did significant damage to the exterior, and they arrested a 24-year-old man at the scene on a charge of first-degree arson</news:title>
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      <news:title>A trailer home on Hibiscus Lane in Naples burned down late on Sunday night, and the Collier County Sheriff&#39;s Office says it does not yet know how the fire started or whether anyone was inside at the time</news:title>
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      <news:title>A crash with injuries blocked the left lane of Interstate 75 southbound at the Alico Road overpass in Lee County for about forty minutes on Monday morning, and the Florida Highway Patrol has since marked the roadway open</news:title>
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      <news:title>Lee County lifted the boil water notice on Dorchester Street in the Villas at 9.23 on Sunday morning, forty eight hours after the main broke, and left the Chandler Avenue notice a few streets away open</news:title>
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      <news:publication_date>2026-08-23T17:00:00.000Z</news:publication_date>
      <news:title>A crash with injuries closed part of Interstate 75 southbound at mile marker 85 on Alligator Alley in Collier County shortly after midday on Sunday, and the state dispatch board no longer carried it forty minutes later</news:title>
    </news:news>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/i-75-southbound-mm141-fort-myers-crash-right-lane-cleared/</loc>
    <news:news>
      <news:publication>
        <news:name>Money &amp; World</news:name>
        <news:language>en</news:language>
      </news:publication>
      <news:publication_date>2026-08-23T16:55:00.000Z</news:publication_date>
      <news:title>A crash blocked the right lane of Interstate 75 southbound at mile marker 141 in Lee County late on Sunday morning, and the state dispatch board had dropped it by lunchtime</news:title>
    </news:news>
  </url>
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