Jamie Henline

Beep Jones held court at three round tables this evening. But there was no room for King Arthur or his knights. These were Kentucky Derby tables, baby. Jones, a native of Louisville, and his buddies had premium seats in front ...

Parents may want to hold off until Jan. 31 on registering their upcoming ninth-graders during the first batch of School Choice.That is the day when Lee Schools must declare to the state which majors will be offered at each high ...

Baby Bryan's parents know Valter Coelho, the man Fort Myers Police have named as a "person of interest" in the kidnapping of Bryan, Silvana Franca, the minister of Igreja Presbiteriana Brasileira de Naples, said Sunday afternoon.

The Lee Memorial Board of Directors voted unanimously today to buy Southwest Florida Regional Medical Center and Gulf Coast Hospital for $250 million.

Lee Memorial Health System was named today as one of the AARP's Best Employers for Workers Over 50.

Lee County has reached a tentative settlement with an Alico Road landowner and three construction companies that sued the county in November, saying the county reneged on a promise to put a traffic signal at the Alico Road-Pennsylvania Avenue intersection.

The son of a deceased Lee County man is suing the Life Care Center of Estero for wrongful death, alleging the care his father received in the nursing home led to the 92-year-old man’s death.

Find Mason. It was the first thought Mike and Kerry Daughraty had Friday morning when they awoke and saw the opened sliding glass door of their friend’s Cape Coral home. Their 22-month-old son had figured out how to unlock doors ...

The owners of a mine on eastern Corkscrew Road are suing Lee County for more than $18.3 million because of a 2002 anti-blasting ordinance that the owners say left their 637 acres good only for potato farming.

Jennifer Hall stood in the living room of her Estero home, her dark eyes narrowed at a man towering above her. He grabbed her shoulders. Her jaw clenched. Slap! She knocked his left hand from her body. Slap! The right ...

The owners of an Estero limestone mine are suing Lee County for more than $18 million, saying a 2002 anti-blasting ordinance made the 637 acres on Corkscrew Road useless.

Fundraising is like oxygen for the Lee Memorial Health System Foundation — it keeps health care breathing. The organization is just hoping for a little mouth-to-mouth.

Lee Memorial Health System’s trauma center funding could be cut by almost 40 percent if the Bush administration’s proposed 2007 budget is approved. and state governments receive less Medicaid funds, say Florida health experts. That means the trauma center could ...

Amy Mendello was supposed to spend the weekend of May 20, 2005, shopping with her mother, Nancy, and celebrating her daughter's first birthday. But five days before Mendello left her Naples home for Toledo, Ohio, Nancy said she didn't feel ...

Estero Fire commissioners want to keep the district’s millage rate at 2.0 mills to help build emergency reserve funds. Commissioners voted 4-0 at Tuesday’s meeting to tentatively keep the 2.0 millage for the 2006-07 fiscal year. A rate of 2.0 ...

A Bonita Springs man has been re-elected as national vice president of the Muscular Dystrophy Association.

Estero Fire commissioners tentatively voted to keep the district's millage rate at 2.0 for the 2006/2007 fiscal year during their meeting this morning. A 2.0 millage rate means residents of the Estero fire district will pay $2 for every $1,000 ...

Sometimes, civic-minded residents would call South Trail Fire & Rescue and ask the district to bring a Fire Prevention Safety House to a community event. "Not only did we have to tell them that we didn't have one, but we ...

It is not enough to treat a child's cancer or heart condition. Hospitals also need to look after the well-being of the child's family, said the new executive director of the Children's Hospital of Southwest Florida.

There are two files on Blaine Spivey's desk at Stock Development. One contains information about giving control of Grandezza to residents at the end of August. The other deals with buffering the Estero community from two roadway extensions.

Got a few hundred acres in Charlotte County and several million dollars you’re dying to give away? Florida Gulf Coast University wants to hear from you. The newly formed FGCU Charlotte County Site Advisory Committee marked Sept. 22 as the ...

Developers have until September to pony up enough land and cash to partner with Florida Gulf Coast University to build a Charlotte County satellite campus.

Should dump truck drivers or quarry owners help pay for the widening of eastern Corkscrew Road? That is the question Lee County commissioners will attempt to answer Aug. 14 at their management and planning meeting.

San Carlos Park fire commissioners tentatively decided to drop the fire district’s millage rate and give firefighters an 8 percent raise during a preliminary presentation at their meeting Thursday night of the 2006-07 budget.

The revamping of the Florida Gulf Coast University Waterfront is almost finished. Once the university transforms the floating dock at the lake near student housing into a permanent structure, the popular student site will be back in full swing.

Lee County commissioners will discuss at their Aug. 14 meeting whether dump truck drivers or quarries should help pay for the four-laning of eastern Corkscrew Road.

Tom Milton is thinking of skipping his morning cup of coffee. The Marsh Landing resident said the bold yellow and blue Best Buy sign at Coconut Point Town Center, which is directly across from his community on U.S. 41 in ...

The Estero Design Review Committee decided tonight to send letters to Lee County and The Simon Property Group expressing their displeasure with the sign for the Best Buy store at Coconut Point.

Attention fishermen: cast your reel for a good cause.

Sabrina Prabakaran never leaves home without her sunglasses. It is not vanity that propels the 15-year-old to don her shades. She is worried about macular degeneration.

Florida Gulf Coast University was slapped with a federal lawsuit last week on behalf of a 62-year-old professor who says he was demoted because he complained about being a victim of age discrimination.

Road work continues in south Lee County next week, according to a release from the Florida Department of Transportation.

A Lee County man drowned early Thursday evening near the boat ramp at the Koreshan State Historic Site. Lee County Sheriff’s officials late Thursday identified the man as Michael Solich, 22, of St. James City.

Estero Fire Rescue settled a lawsuit Wednesday with an ex-employee who said he was wrongfully dismissed after he was injured on the job.

Estero Fire Rescue has settled a lawsuit with a former employee who said he was wrongfully dismissed after he was injured on the job.

Two store chains that specialize in discount designer duds and housewares are joining the ranks at the Gulf Coast Town Center in San Carlos Park.

It was no surprise to Kathy Miller when Florida Gulf Coast University needed a new library less than 10 years after opening its doors. "We knew when we opened the first library," said Miller, the university's director of library services.

It was hard for Jodie Bagley on Sunday morning to send her youngest child to summer camp. She had the typical mommy worries: Is she brushing her teeth? Is she getting enough to eat? Is she warm? Then, there were ...

Matt Pagnutti grew up on the ice. "Pretty much the first thing I ever did was put on a pair of skates," he said Tuesday morning as he perched on the back of a fire truck in Estero Fire Rescue's ...

Lee Memorial Health System sealed the deal Thursday to buy 10 acres in Estero, fueling some residents’ hopes they will someday have expanded medical services in south Lee County.

The Fourth of July is more than the fizz and crackle of sparklers and fireworks for residents in unincorporated south Lee County. It is a chance to go back to their roots with some good, old-fashioned partying, say event organizers.

It's official. Lee Memorial Health System's board of directors voted unanimously this afternoon to purchase nearly 10 acres in Estero near the 22 acres the board opted to purchase a year and a half ago.

Posen Construction likely will get nearly $6 million more than Lee County wanted to give to widen Three Oaks Parkway from Alico to Corkscrew roads in Estero. The Michigan-based contractor submitted the lowest bid for the four-lane project — $23,794,550.10 ...

The lowest bid to widen Three Oaks Parkway from Alico Road to Corkscrew Road came in nearly $6 million over budget this afternoon.

About 800 people end up in Lee Memorial Hospital's emergency department each year for detoxification. Southwest Florida Addiction Services has room for only 19 intoxicated people at a time. When the detox facility's beds are full, other at-risk people are ...

The 6-acre overgrown site at the northwest corner of Interstate 75 and Colonial Boulevard in Fort Myers doesn’t look like much. Just give Lee Memorial Health System 17 months.

Lee Memorial Health System plans to purchase about 10 acres in Estero, making the possibility of a medical campus in south Lee County even more likely, said Jim Nathan, CEO of the hospital system.

In an overgrown field tucked behind a Steak 'n Shake and a Bob Evans, Lee Memorial Health System and local physicians made good this morning on their promise to make Southwest Florida a destination point for cancer care.

Estero Fire Chief Jeff Lindsey and seven other fire district employees could be in violation of state law because they are not enrolled in the proper retirement program.

Estero Fire Chief Jeff Lindsey and seven other higher up employees may be violating state law because the former chief encouraged them to enroll in the wrong retirement program, Lindsey told commissioners during their meeting this morning.