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Naples Estates residents frustrated at 13-year legal fight to purchase community
Published 1/19/2012 at 7:40 p.m. 6 comments
In March 2009, Collier Circuit Judge Hugh Hayes ruled the purchase price would be based on the park's value on Feb. 24, 1998, when residents sued the mobile home park's then-owner Ell-Cap/75 to state their intent to purchase the park ...
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Fiddler's Creek district contends U.S. Bank misspent community's money
Published 1/15/2012 at 4:00 p.m. 6 comments
One of two community development districts for Fiddler's Creek has sued U.S. Bank National Association, saying the bank misspent bond money meant for construction and other improvement projects at the resort community east of Naples.
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Naples man sentenced for role in Nevin Shapiro's $930M Ponzi scheme
Published 1/10/2012 at 1:53 p.m. 9 comments
NEWARK, N.J. - A Naples man who was the top recruiter in a $930 million Ponzi scheme has been sentenced in New Jersey to a year and a day in prison for not reporting more than $6 million in commissions ...
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Man sues over injuries he sustained at Marco Community Safety Day
Published 1/7/2012 at 4:00 p.m. 35 comments
While attending Community Safety Day at Veterans Community Park this time last year, William Heft was hit in the head by a wooden piece of fire equipment sent flying when a helicopter tried to land, he alleges in a negligence ...
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Seagate's push for Clam Bay markers spurned by state, going to judge next?
Published 1/1/2012 at 6:00 p.m. 8 comments
A North Naples neighborhood's push for more formal navigational markers in Clam Bay could be up to a judge now that the neighborhood has lost a round with a state agency.
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January trial set for Collier ex-deputy accused of boy's sex assault in mall bathroom
Published 12/25/2011 at 7:00 p.m. 28 comments
A former Collier sheriff's deputy charged with forcing a 15-year-old boy to perform sex acts in a Coastland Center mall bathroom is expected to head to trial in January.
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Collier clerk's office, county staff spar over who can approve contracts
Published 12/23/2011 at 5:30 p.m. 15 comments
There is a debate between Clerk of Courts Dwight Brock's office and the county purchasing department. At issue is whether the county staff can enter into binding contracts. County staff members seem to believe they can, while Brock's office contends ...
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Holiday companion: Naples battered women's shelter opens doors to abuseds' pets, too
Published 12/23/2011 at 4:00 p.m. 2 comments
The Shelter for Abused Women & Children not only gives human residents gifts during their end-of-the-year festivities; their animal companions — which are allowed to board in the shelter's on-site kennel — get in on the holiday spirit too with ...
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Lee Memorial lawsuit over specialized brain neurosurgery set for key hearing
Published 12/23/2011 at 3:30 p.m. 4 comments
A neurosurgeon who specializes in treating ruptured brain aneurysms for Southwest Florida patients may learn early next year if he can stay in the area or not.
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Swamp buggies soon may get new access to Big Cypress Preserve, or will they?
Updated 12/20/2011 at 8:40 p.m. 5 comments
When Florida finished building Alligator Alley between Naples and Fort Lauderdale in 1992, it came with a deal on the side. Swamp buggies would be allowed access to the Big Cypress National Preserve in easte
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