This database summarizes, by county road segments, how many fatal accidents occured from January 1, 1994 through Dec. 31, 2008. Also displayed are the percentage of accidents in which at least one driver had been drinking, at least one vehicle had been speeding or at least one death occured to a driver or passenger who was not wearing a seat belt. View Related Stories »

View details of fatal traffic accidents in Collier County from 2006-2008. View Related Stories »

Hate crime has been much in the news lately, with an expansive new law put on the books in October 2009. This database includes basic information about 2008 hate crimes recorded by law enforcement agencies across the nation. Read the story »

Every victim's experience of waiting for a sheriff's deputy is different. Some wait longer than others, and many factors contribute to how quickly a deputy will arrive. In Collier County, the Sheriff's Office's Immokalee district posted the fastest average reported response times in 2007 and 2008, at about 5 ½ minutes. The slowest times were in the Everglades district, at nearly three times Immokalee's average response, around 15 minutes. Read the story »

The strongest earthquake in more than 200 years rocked Haiti on Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2010. The 7.0-magnitude quake, which struck at 4:53 p.m., was estimated by the Red Cross to have killed 45,000 to 50,000 people. We've put together a list of organizations that are collecting aid and donations to assist Haiti in relief efforts. Get more information about the Haiti earthquake relief efforts »

How good the care is at Naples-area nursing homes may come down to who owns them, according to a study of state inspection records conducted by the Daily News and Scripps Howard News Service. Read the story »

A statistical analysis of the federal government's first-ever ratings of nearly 16,000 nursing homes reveals an uneven level of quality across the nation and shows how complicated it is to find a good nursing home. Read the story »

Map businesses with alcohol or tobacco licenses in your neighborhood. Find the status of the license for the bar down the street. Database includes all licenses issued in Florida.

As cities across Florida face drastic cuts to help balance their budgets, city officials are looking to curtail rising employee costs in a difficult economic time. Salary and benefit packages account for about 70 percent of the Naples general fund, the city's main operating budget. That number is significantly lower in Bonita Springs - in fiscal 2010 about 30 percent of the operating budget will be dedicated to employee compensation - but that's because the city hires outside companies and agencies for much of its work, so it doesn't have a large labor or clerical staff. Read the story »

Fewer Collier and Lee county college-bound seniors are taking the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT), and though Collier County's scores are still outpacing the state's, Lee County students have fallen behind. Collier County students performed slightly better in the critical reading portion of the test, scoring a 504 compared to last year's mean score of 503. But the district's math and writing scores dipped a bit. Read the story »