Lee County

A 12-year-old student was arrested Thursday in Southwest Florida after authorities said they found a manifesto detailing his plans to bomb his school. The Lee County Sheriff’s Office said the boy’s classmates at Veterans Park Academy for the Arts saw him creating “concerning drawings,” NBC affiliate WFLA reported.  One of those drawings allegedly included a map of the school...

Three people drowned in a Lee County river over the weekend, after two friends reportedly tried to help a teen who had been struggling in the water.

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The Lee County Sheriff’s Office has released the harrowing 911 calls made Tuesday just before a deputy shot and killed a man after he took people hostage and claimed to have a bomb at a Florida bank, authorities said.

The Lee County Sheriff’s Office has released the harrowing 911 calls made Tuesday just before a deputy shot and killed a man after he took people hostage and claimed to have a bomb at a Florida bank, authorities said.

Authorities say a deputy shot and killed a man after he took people hostage and claimed to have a bomb at a Florida bank. The Lee County Sheriff’s Office says deputies responded to a Bank of America branch in Fort Myers shortly before noon Tuesday. As deputies entered the bank, dozens of people ran out. The sheriff says a man...