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In this installment from the StoryCorps Mobile Tour visit to Fort Myers in Feb. 2024, Dr. Pierre Loredo tells his wife Elizabeth Loredo about his childhood, daring to dream big, defying others’ expectations, and becoming a pediatrician.
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More than 50 pieces of heavy equipment as well as law enforcement vehicles including helicopters, ambulances and fire trucks, will be spread out inside Hertz Arena Saturday for what’s being called SW Florida’s Largest Touch-A-Truck Event.The event is a collaboration between the Florida Department of Transportation and the Lee County Sheriff's Office.
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Military veterans who receive GI benefits may need to make a change in their banking this month.
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Law in the Mall: Annual free legal clinic returns to Fort Myers with same name but a new location.Lee County Legal Aid Society to join six other nonprofits, government agencies at April 27 event.
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In this first installment from the StoryCorps Mobile Tour visit to Fort Myers in Feb. 2024, Lucy Garcia tells her daughter Samantha Garcia her story of coming to the U.S. as an teenage undocumented immigrant, getting an education, and building a social work career in service to others.
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A lawsuit filed by a Fort Myers man over the removal of weapons and ammunition, much of it antique, from his home by the Lee County Sheriff's Office in March 2020 claims there were violations of the state constitution as well as damage done to materials taken.The suit was filed by W. Alecs Dean March 29 in Lee County Court and seeks damages up to $100,000.
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Two Florida legislators from opposite sides of the aisle came to Florida Gulf Coast University this week to discuss proposed legislation.
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Florida residents were undercounted in the last census, although Southwest Florida counties did pretty well at responding.
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Vice President Kamala Harris toured on Saturday the bloodstained classroom building where the 2018 Parkland high school massacre happened, then announced a program to assist states that have laws allowing police to temporarily seize guns from people judges have found to be dangerous.Harris saw bullet-pocked walls and floors still covered in dried blood and broken glass left behind from the Feb. 14, 2018, attack at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School that killed 14 students and three staff members and wounded 17.
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Lee County Utilities alerts customers to scheduled water outage and upcoming precautionary Boil Water Notice for neighborhood in south Fort MyersImpacted area is Overlook Drive and adjacent streets