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A Cape Coral mother will spend the rest of her life in prison in a case involving the starvation death of her 18-month-old son in 2019.

The 2022 Tour de Turtles is underway. It’s a race, of sorts, that allows people to follow along as a group of sea turtles travel thousands of miles from their home beaches to their foraging grounds.

Rebuilding Together Tampa Bay announced the nearly $1 million offering in the form of a $500,000 check and more than $300,000 raised by the Florida group and its Rebuilding Together National office at a news conference on Fort Myers Beach Thursday.

Drone-delivered meals to Sanibel Island residents will be available Saturday through Monday this week via a partnership with several companies including Zing Drones of St. Petersburg, A2Z Drones of Los Angeles, Skyway drone service and World Central Kitchens.

A letter sent to officials in Sanibel Island Fort Myers said municipalities could be kicked out of the National Flood Insurance Program if figures from the property appraisers office are used when calculating if hurricane-battered home could be repaired or demolished

The funds are part of of more than $7.1 million in awards announced Tuesday by Governor Ron DeSantis for nine Florida communities through the Rural Infrastructure Fund program.

The park closed Monday Jan. 1 after hundreds of Cuban refugees landed there.

The entire cardiac program across NCH Healthcare System will be now called “The Rooney Heart Institute" after a $20 million naming gift from the Rooney Foundation to benefit comprehensive cardiovascular services at the hospital.

Three state-wide amendments are up for consideration by Florida voters including prohibiting flood resistance improvements to a home from being taken into consideration for property tax purposes, abolishing the Constitution Revision Commission, and a proposal to grant property tax breaks to some public service workers and teachers who own homes, valued at certain amounts.

Some washout near the Caloosahatchee Bridge on U.S. 41 to what FDOT called an "approach slab," and area of the roadway before the bridge actually begins, was noticed and drew concern from FDOT.