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Less than a week before convicted murderer James Ford is scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection, the Florida Supreme Court on Friday unanimously rejected an appeal aimed at blocking the execution.The Supreme Court issued a 22-page opinion upholding a Jan. 23 decision by Charlotte County Circuit Judge Lisa Porter, who turned down arguments by Ford’s attorneys. Ford is scheduled to be executed Thursday at Florida State Prison in the 1997 murders of Greg and Kimberly Malnory at a Charlotte County sod farm.

Erie County, Pa., is one of just a handful of places that boomeranged from supporting Obama in 2008 and 2012, to Trump in 2016, to Biden in 2020. It's worth watching in 2024.

Pig racing has been a Sarasota County Fair staple for nearly 40 years. The family behind it is just getting started.

In an unusual move, the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity objected to a proposed development plan in Hendry County.The Sugar Hill development…

A long-standing battle over which insurer will pay for some $1 million hurricane damage leaves thousands of Lee residents in peril

Over three years, a campaign urged Howard County, Md., residents to pare back on sugary drinks — through ads, social media, health counseling and changes to what vending machines sold. And it worked.

“Southwest Florida has been the darling of US real estate investors,” declared Gerald Hendry, principal with commercial real estate appraisal firm, Maxwell, Hendry & Simmons in Fort Myers, to a local audience of business owners and professionals.

Myles Cosgrove, who investigators say fired the shot that killed Breonna Taylor in March 2020, was hired by a police department less than an hour drive from Louisville.

Miami Herald investigative reporter Michael Sallah was tipped off by a mysterious text message. "It was... night and all of a sudden I get a text...

A Cape Coral woman lost a legal battle with a Charlotte County hospital over whether or not she should be forced to have a C-section.Jennifer Goodall of…