VICTORIA MACCHI

Mirroring a national trend, median income in Collier and Lee counties dipped to a five-year low in 2011, according to statistics the government is releasing today.

Despite dissent from local activists, Collier County's sheriff says an agreement between his agency and federal authorities to continue detaining undocumented immigrants will be renewed in October.

A review by the Daily News of Collier and Lee county arrest records since Jan. 1, 2011, shows that the people purchasing IDs like the ones Hermilo Solis-Fernandez is accused of producing are 15 times more likely to be arrested ...

For one day a year, Sgt. Dave Bruening moonlights as a trash collector. While the south end of the barrier island, which stretches from south Naples to Marco Island, sees some occasional volunteer cleaning, he wanted to see more of ...

The fatal shooting at a Wisconsin Sikh temple in early August by a man with supremacist affiliations sent communities around the country scrambling to learn which hate groups have roots in their own neighborhoods.

Emergency shelters will open in Collier and Lee counties this morning as a precaution ahead of the expected development of Tropical Storm Isaac into a hurricane that could strafe Southwest Florida beginning late tonight and Monday.

Only two weeks into their legal studies, two first-year law students stood in an East Naples office lobby this week before 50 undocumented youths, many still in high school.

Young undocumented immigrants who want to apply under a new federal policy for a reprieve from deportation could be inadvertently turning themselves in to authorities for deportation if they are deemed ineligible, several immigration experts are warning.

A San Carlos Park house fire that killed a Bonita Springs man in June was accidental, the state fire marshal has concluded.

A new policy granting some undocumented young immigrants temporary reprieve from deportation goes into effect Wednesday.

In a smattering of Collier County parking lots, white steel bins with red lettering beckon for used clothing and shoes.

“I think the first question on everyone’s mind is, are they related in any way? Evidence obtained so far indicates that there is no relationship between the three cases,” Sheriff Kevin Rambosk said.

As of late Wednesday, the Collier County Sheriff’s Office had not named any formal suspects but was calling 44-year-old Lawrence Joseph MacDonald a “person of interest.”

Detectives found the woman on the back porch of a single-family home at 115 Flame Vine Drive, off Piper Boulevard, following a call to emergency dispatchers around 6:45 a.m.

"They put a gun through the window and shot him. He's dead," Whitaker said she cried out to him.

Collier County Sheriff Kevin Rambosk said he had been given no indication that his agency’s program would be removed. “We’re very fortunate that we do have a very productive unit,” he said.

Driving east on the highway, Armando Valdes-Rodriguez, 49, hit 82 mph in a red Dodge van with six male passengers, including a 13-year-old boy, according to an arrest report.

If there's a way to safely do a javelin toss inside a downtown Naples restaurant, Tony Wood wants to figure it out by today's Olympic opening ceremonies.

As of the first week of July, a new program in Collier County provides free legal services to children who are entangled in a courtroom dispute, from obtaining restraining orders for minors in domestic violence situations to looking out for ...

The once-storied tennis center near the intersection of Airport-Pulling and Pine Ridge roads, with its 38 courts and clubhouse residents who speak of the "good-old days," has been largely out of commission for nearly two years.

It's more than a month after fire destroyed the top floor of the nine-unit Naples Bath and Tennis Club condo building in the 1800 block of Bald Eagle Drive. Demolition crews are a daily presence, tearing melted and scorched parts ...

A U.S. Supreme Court health-care ruling this week won't directly affect lawsuits filed by religious-affiliated employers like Ave Maria University over a controversial contraception mandate earlier this year.

Authorities responded around 4 p.m. to a report of a tornado touching down in East Naples in the vicinity of Rattlesnake Hammock Road and U.S. 41 East. Damage is reported to a handful of roofs.

The government labeled Friday's reprieve for some young illegal immigrants in the U.S. as "deferred action" and an extension of "prosecutorial discretion." For many Southwest Florida families, it will simply mean "relief," local immigration activists and experts said.

In conjunction with the State Attorney's Office, law enforcement agencies issue an arrest warrant and an unlawful flight warrant and submit the information to the U.S. State Department. If a fugitive is located abroad, as Smith and Gonzalez were, a ...

Latinos are part of the demographic highlighted in an April Nielsen Co. study that shows Hispanics in the U.S. are attached to their digital devices in ways non-Hispanics aren't.

During the "Super Bowl" of local events for law enforcement officers, canoe race revelry was cut short Saturday for at least eight people, who ended up behind bars

The Mustard Belt is up for grabs, and two Collier County men are hungry for a spot in the nation's top hot dog eating competition.

An East Naples man is in critical condition Tuesday afternoon and his long-time live-in partner is behind bars, accused of hitting him in the head with a sledge hammer.

The pattern observed by law enforcement is that equipment starts to disappear more frequently as the rainy season kicks off: business picks up, people look for work, and the demand for equipment — stolen or not — goes up.

Christopher Shubert was supposed to be celebrating the six-month anniversary of his wedding this weekend. Now his family and those of two other Naples-area residents are trying to piece together what happened late Tuesday, when a Golden Gate Estates crash ...

Hoping to snip through the red tape of getting a driver license, new Collier County resident David Scott Duseau showed up at the Department of Motor Vehicles well prepared.

As long as the paperwork is in order, "I don't think we can tell them no," the city's attorney Audrey Vance said of St. Matthew's House. What would influence the shelter are any regulations enacted during the moratorium.

Jose Wejebe, who hosted Spanish Fly, a saltwater fishing show on the Outdoor Channel and formerly on ESPN, died when his kit plane plummeted into a field near the runway shortly after takeoff from Everglades Airpark.

When the usually punctual and dependable Flores Monroy didn’t come home from a trip to the store Monday night, then failed to show up for work early Tuesday, his house mates and employers grew worried.

A Naples man was arrested in connection with the crash that caused the fire, which shot molten metal 30 feet from the transformer and set nearby woods on fire, DiMaria said.

A 27-foot sailboat washed up on Mexico’s west coast in late February, stripped and empty, with no sign of its captain. Now a Collier County man is there in search of his 43-year-old son.

Screams could be heard from inside Trailer #18 when firefighters and deputies arrived at 713 2nd Ave. in Immokalee on March 4, 2007. Five of the 11 people inside died.

Hardt rejected 30 years in prison for Rosales-Trejo — a number negotiated with Messer’s family — “because it was not even close to enough time for what he did to the victim,” he said during a conference call

Amid rising crime numbers, a political action committee in Fort Myers is looking to fold the city's police force in with the Lee County Sheriff's Office.

The Florida Highway Patrol plans to crack down on aggressive driving on Monday through Wednesday, when troopers around the state will be on the lookout for speeders, weavers and sign-runners.

The 16-year-old boy was arrested at 7:45 a.m. after an anonymous call to Crime Stoppers alerted the Collier County Sheriff’s Office, according to an arrest report. The arrest comes barely a year after a 14-y

Ave Maria University officials have filed a federal lawsuit in Fort Myers against the federal government over a contraception mandate that has riled Catholic institutions.

The request for face-to-face, unmonitored therapy for Alex Crain, 15, was initially declined by the Naples Jail Center and the Collier County Sheriff’s Office.

Detectives are investigating an incident at the Collier County jail that sent one corrections deputy to the hospital and another to an urgent care center Thursday.

Some passengers at Southwest Florida's main airport will soon be getting a different once-over by security.

An East Naples teen involved in the 2009 killing of a Lely grad during a drug deal gone bad reached a plea agreement Tuesday. He'll testify against his alleged partner in crime as part of the deal.

A Collier high school student returned home one night in January to find a message written in blue tape on her bedroom floor.

Thomas W. Thompson’s death highlights the ongoing need for pedestrians and drivers to make themselves visible, and to keep an eye out for one another. “We don’t have a huge problem,” said Sgt. Chris Gonzalez

A pedestrian was struck and killed by a vehicle in Golden Gate Estates early this morning.