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  • Nurses and community faith leaders participate in a protest outside the Cook County Jail in Chicago, on April 10, 2020, calling for the release of prisoners from the jail. A federal judge ordered Cook County Jail to take prompt action to stop the spread of the coronavirus, including to make sure that the more than 4,000 detainees have access to adequate soap and sanitizer.
    The COVID-19 Struggle In Chicago's Cook County Jail
    Cook County Jail's coronavirus outbreak has prompted policy changes and a federal lawsuit. More than 500 staff and detainees infected.
  • Lee County to reopen Lakes Regional Library on Saturday
    Hurricane Ian recovery resources remain available at public library site at the corner of Bass Road and Gladiolus Avenue.
  • Cities, Counties Take Aim At State Gun Law
    Less than two months after a 19-year-old gunman shot dead 14 students and three faculty members at a Broward County high school, city and county...
  • Pasco County Sees Additional Evacuations as Flooding Continues
    While two residents in the flooded Port Richey neighborhood of Gulf Highlands chose to evacuate their homes, others, like Craig Caley, stayed behind....
  • Clinical Psychologist To Head Chicago's Cook County Jail
    NPR's Melissa Block interviews Nneka Jones Tapia, a clinical psychologist who was appointed to lead one of the country's largest jails. More than a third of Cook County's inmates are mentally ill.
  • Sheriff Carmine Marceno, Commissioner Ray Sandelli, and Commissioner Brian Hamman at the LCSO press conference in reference to the expansion of the Narcotics Unit. The expansion of the Narcotics Unit is intended to combat crimes related to drug, gang activity, and narcotic deaths.
    Lee County pays to expand sheriff's narcotics unit
    The Lee Board of County Commissioners approved $1.7 million for the expansion of the Lee County Sheriff’s Office (LCSO) Narcotics Unit.Sheriff Carmine Marceno requested an increase in funding for his Narcotics Enforcement Unit to combat crimes related to drug and gang activity. He also hopes to see a decrease in narcotic deaths in the county.
  • DeSantis, Gillum Target Pinellas County As Election Nears
    Both candidates for governor took aim at Pinellas County over the weekend, as it's considered one of the key battlegrounds to taking the governor’s...
  • An Alva pasture
    Commissioners greenlight massive development in rural Lee County
    Neal Properties would like to build close to 1,100 homes on farmland in the north Alva, Olga area
  • Volunteers from St. John's Episcopal Church in Bethesda help hand out food to a local resident at an event earlier this month.
    In Affluent Maryland County, Pandemic Exacerbates Food Insecurity
    Since March, the number of people who lack a steady source of food has grown. In Montgomery County, a food assistance effort often runs out of prepared meals before it can feed everyone in need.
  • The Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office has emerged as one of the Suncoast’s most active partners with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
    Sarasota County Sheriff's Office cashes in on ICE crackdown
    As the federal government intensifies its immigration crackdown, the Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office has emerged as one of the Suncoast’s most active partners with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. In recent months, Sheriff Kurt Hoffman’s deputies have patrolled the Everglades immigration jail known as “Alligator Alcatraz” and shuttled immigrants between detention facilities in Florida, earning more than $280,000 in state funding for the work. Meanwhile, the number of ICE detainers — which keep people up to 48 hours past their release date for possible detention and deportation — have quadrupled this past year inside the already crowded county jail.
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