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Officer-involved shooting injures one suspect in Fort Myers Published: May 5, 2021 10:30 AM EDT Updated: May 6, 2021 3:40 PM EDT The Florida Department of Law Enforcement will investigate a shooting involving a Fort Myers police officer and a suspect Wednesday morning. The shooting happened around 10 a.m. and caused a shutdown on Fowler Street for more than half of the day. According to FMPD, the encounter with the suspect began at 9:45 a.m. when a suspicious vehicle attempted to enter a secure area of Fort Myers Police Department headquarters on Widman Way. Police officers attempted to inves...

Boat catches fire near Edison Bridge Published: April 13, 2021 12:26 PM EDT Updated: April 13, 2021 6:25 PM EDT Recommended A family is without a home after their sailboat went up in flames early Tuesday. The fire happened at around 6:20 a.m. and caused two sailboats to burn. It happened near the Edison Bridge in downtown Fort Myers. Investigators with the Fort Myers Police Department said arson is suspected in the boat fire. One of the boats that caught fire was abandoned. The other was home to a man and his 14-year-old daughter. The two were uninjured in the fire. They spent Tuesday packing...

Happy birthday, dear Frank Pavese - you're still just a kid! Frank Pavese Sr. is widely acknowledged to be a man of consequence. Indeed, this scion of one of Fort Myers' oldest families was named one of the community's People of Influence by The News-Press as the paper celebrated its 130th year in 2014. Frank's father was Thomas Edison's barber when the inventor was in town at his Caloosahatchee riverfront estate. "My dad's shop was right on First Street, next to the old Fort Myers Bank,"  Frank told me a few years ago. Edison and his next-door neighbor, Henry Ford, used to show up every ...

Fort Myers’ planned Legacy Island could include walking trails, a dock with four slips, an observation platform and a beach. A permit application submitted to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for the island, just north of the Downtown Fort Myers shoreline and east of the Edison Bridge, shows what the city is planning to build on the island. Plans submitted by the city to the state say the park will also include a paddle craft landing and launching area and shoreline. The decision to develop Legacy Island came after the city fell into a land dispute prior to the construction of the Luminary ...

Large Fort Myers garbage pile removed after community speaks up Reset FORT MYERS, Fla. – Hundreds of pounds of garbage piled up near the entrance to the City of Fort Myers recently. People living in the area were fed up with the mess and asked for help to get it cleaned up. Resident Gina Foxil jogs daily across the Edison Bridge and observed the debris piling up along her jogging path. “I’ve never tripped over it but sometimes it is in the sidewalk and you’re running around it,” Foxil said. Bags filled with garbage were dumped on the roadside leading into Fort Myers on city property...