Naples
The 76-unit Gulf Shore Boulevard condominium installed about 870 feet of reusable flood barrier designed for water up to 6 feet. The project cost was not disclosed.
Florida Highway Patrol's live incident board says northbound I-75 is blocked over State Road 951 for construction. Through traffic detours at Collier Boulevard, exit 101.
Two Marco Island Fire Rescue firefighters and Brush 50 left for Palo Pinto County, Texas, on Saturday to work the Ross Fire. The interagency record puts the fire at 85,303 acres and 31 per cent contained. The departments expect at least two weeks.
Visitors and staff were evacuated from Naples Zoo on Saturday afternoon after a young black bear got in. Wildlife officers went to the site to work out a capture plan. No outcome has been announced.
The Highway Patrol logged the crash at 2.39 p.m., recorded a roadblock in the right southbound lane, and stamped the call clear at 2.52 p.m. A second crash logged three minutes later a mile ahead at mile marker 51 was still open at 3 p.m.
An aircraft returning to Naples Airport called 911 after its crew saw what looked like a person at an overturned boat about ten miles offshore. Marco Island police and fire, Greater Naples Fire Rescue and Collier County Sheriff's Office marine units found it abandoned.
The Highway Patrol logged the crash at 1.07 p.m. and typed it as a crash with injuries and a roadblock. At 1.49 p.m. the board still recorded the right northbound lane blocked.
The Highway Patrol logged the crash at 8.28 a.m. and its board records a roadblock in the left southbound lane. The entry was still open, with no clearance stamp, at 8.36 a.m.
The Highway Patrol logged a crash on the southbound exit ramp at Immokalee Road, mile marker 111, at 8.01 a.m. Its board carried the entry by 8.14 already recording the roadway as clear.
WGCU reports a measles case was confirmed Wednesday in Immokalee, reported by the nonprofit Healthcare Network. Collier kindergarten vaccination sits near 89 per cent against the 95 needed for herd immunity. The MMR shot is free to residents in Naples and Immokalee.
The Collier County Sheriff's Office says DNA from a fork collected in Arizona has linked a 71-year-old man to a 1999 North Naples sexual battery. It is the agency's first arrest from forensic genetic genealogy.
FHP says a Chevrolet Express van driven by a 62-year-old man struck the back of a stopped Mercedes van in the center lane about 200 feet north of the Immokalee Road overpass. The Chevrolet driver died. The other driver was not hurt.
The Florida Highway Patrol says troopers found a 2014 Dodge pickup in Estero on Tuesday, impounded it, and arrested Pedro Lopez Fernando, 42, of Immokalee on charges of leaving the scene of a crash involving death and tampering with evidence.
Arthrex is finishing a five-storey, 41-unit corporate housing building on 2.06 acres in Naples' Palm River, less than two miles from its headquarters. The company has passed 13,000 employees worldwide and says its 60-property housing pool has run near 94 per cent occupancy.
The Florida Highway Patrol row for the Interstate 75 fatality at mile marker 111 in Naples now reads roadway open. The second full northbound closure entered the record between 7.19 and 7.24 and lifted between 8.39 and 8.44 p.m.
The Florida Highway Patrol is again carrying all northbound lanes of Interstate 75 at mile marker 111 in Naples as blocked. The board had held the left lane alone since half past five, and the change landed between 7.19 and 7.24 p.m.
Gulf Coast News reports the Florida Highway Patrol saying a person died in the Interstate 75 crash at mile marker 111, and the Sheriff's Office saying a van and a box truck were involved, with two people treated. The left lane is still blocked.
The Florida Highway Patrol has retyped its Interstate 75 northbound call at mile marker 111 in Naples from a crash with injuries to a fatality. The left lane is still blocked and the right and center lanes are open.
The Florida Highway Patrol has reopened the right and center northbound lanes of Interstate 75 at mile marker 111 in Naples. The left lane is still blocked. The full closure entered the record between 4.49 and 4.59 and was gone from it by 5.29.
The Florida Highway Patrol has closed all northbound lanes of Interstate 75 at mile marker 111 in Naples. The crash received at 4.29 was carrying two blocked lanes at 4.49 and a full closure by 4.59, still standing at 5.05.
The Collier County Sheriff's Office says a 15 year old Barron Collier High School student was arrested Tuesday on two counts of possession of a weapon on school grounds. Deputies say no threat was made and they believe the school was never in danger.
The Florida Highway Patrol is carrying a crash on Interstate 75 northbound at mile marker 111 in Naples with the left and center lanes blocked. A unit reached the scene at 4.40 and the lanes were still blocked at 4.49.
WINK News reports the Collier County Sheriff's Office has said the death in Sunday's Hibiscus Lane fire was not suspicious, and that the State Fire Marshal is investigating. WINK places the fire in the Pelican Creek Mobile Home Park.
Gulf Coast News reports the Collier County Sheriff's Office has confirmed one person died in Sunday night's fire on Hibiscus Lane. The cause is still undetermined. This desk reported the fire earlier with no fatality on the record.
