Crime

Charlotte County Sheriff's Office deputies arrested a Punta Gorda man who threatened three people, two who were juveniles, chased them, fired a shotgun and yelled vulgarities at them, Thursday night in the Ranchettes area.

Mark Sievers' first degree murder conviction, corresponding death sentence, and conspiracy to commit murder conviction, were affirmed in the court's 38-page order on the case Thursday morning, following an appeal by the defendant.

Charges against the Cape Coral man include racketeering, securities/investments prohibited practices, embezzlement, sale of unregistered securities and violations of the Florida Securities and Investor Protection Act.

Several instances of looting in the past few days in areas affected by Hurricane Ian have been reported by the Lee County Sheriff's Office with a number of arrests made.

The countywide curfew was instituted immediately following the hurricane after reports of looting along U.S. 41 in Fort Myers.

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.

On this episode of the Book Club, we hear from Julie K. Brown, the award-winning investigative journalist from The Miami Herald.

The lack of face masks at many Super Bowl parties throughout the Tampa Bay area might cause some blowback for businesses hosting those events.

A Polk Sheriff's deputy is in jail for allegedly texting a fellow deputy that lawmakers on Capitol Hill should have been "executed."

A video of a manatee with "Trump" etched onto its back recently went viral, and now the actor is offering an award to anyone who can identify the person that did it.