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The 16th annual Fort Myers Film Festival will deliver five days of film screenings, filmmaker panels, and celebration. The festival, which runs May 20-24, 2026, will include 81 selected feature, documentary, and short films from all over the world. We’ll get a preview of the festival in a conversation with Fort Myers Film Festival founder and Executive Director Eric Raddatz. We’ll also talk with multi-award winning filmmaker Jordan Axelrod, whose short film “Szypliski” will be featured at the opening night red carpet gala at the Sidney & Berne Davis Art Center.

The Blue-gray Gnatcatcher is a tiny gray-and-white bird with a black tail found throughout Florida in winter, and through most of the state during the…

The TV program COPS features Sarasota County deputies this Saturday night when its 26th season debuts. A crew including COPS videographer Joe Beso rode…

The U.S. Attorney’s office has settled a lawsuit brought by a whistle-blower alleging one of the nation’s largest radiation oncology providers has agreed…

A House committee has approved a bill that overhauls the non-profit group which regulates high school sports. Eventually, the Florida High School Athletic…

The president and House Republicans continued to snipe at each other Wednesday over the impending set of automatic tax hikes and spending cuts known as the fiscal cliff. President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner later spoke briefly by phone for the first time in a week, according to reports.

The India Association of Fort Myers is preparing to celebrate its 35th India Fest, and this year the event will feature a new theme.

The Nuclear Security Summit in Washington is expected to end up focusing on concerns over terrorists obtaining nuclear materials.

Slovenian poet Ales Steger says that the Olympics are for everyone, even "bankers with pacemakers" to "naked sumo wrestlers." The poem is a playful, "lightly humorous call to action," says Brian Henry, Steger's award-winning translator.

In this week's health news, Florida doctors will be able to order COVID-19 vaccines for children under 5 from the federal government, NCH closes its psychiatric unit, and Florida adds a new color to its Alert System.