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Authorities say they’ve arrested a 19-year-old Florida man after finding videos of him hitting a young alligator and placing a cigarette in its mouth.

Fort Myers is the county seat of Lee County, which was founded in 1887 and named after the Confederate general.

Authorities say an airline pilot was arrested at a Florida airport after a loaded gun was found in his carry-on suitcase.

Authorities say a Florida man was found dead with his head stuck in a partially closed car window.

The Fort Myers teen told Dunbar High School administrators that she had been afraid while walking to school because it was dark outside.

Construction workers in southwest Florida uncovered a mammoth or mastodon bone that could be 2 million years old.

The University of Kentucky says a student studying abroad went missing while swimming with friends in the Mediterranean Sea.

The tree became the center of a neighborhood controversy when city staff began discussing cutting it down last year. Cooper, who lives nearby, began mobilizing to save it.

Lee County on Florida’s Gulf Coast saw 955 cases in 2017, eight times more than the 171 overdoses reported in 2013.

A Florida man has been arrested after DNA evidence linked him to a 22-year-old rape case.

Florida Highway Patrol officials says Leroy Kenneth Rogers Jr. was travelingjust after 5 a.m. Monday when his car drifted across the center of the roadway, striking the Lee County school bus.

The Coast Guard has rescued four people who were on a sinking boat off the Florida coast.

Authorities say a 13-year-old had a loaded gun and marijuana in his backpack at a Florida school.

A Florida man has been convicted of fatally striking a bicyclist with his car and hiding the body before destroying his own vehicle.

The NAACP chapter in Lee County, which is named for Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, made an effort in 2015 to change Lee’s portrait in county commission chambers were unsuccessful.

A 16-year-old high school football player from Fort Myers has died days after he collapsed due to heat stroke during an offseason football workout.

Police in southwest Florida say they arrested a naked man who was attacking mailboxes with a machete.

A lit cigarette likely tossed by a parent waiting for a school bus caused a southwest Florida brush fire that destroyed four homes and several cars.

A raging wildfire burning in Collier county has forced residents to evacuate their homes Thursday.

Wildlife officials say they’ve issued warnings to three Florida Gulf Coast University students who brought a dead alligator to a dorm room and posted pictures of it on social media.