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Zimbabwe is no longer pressing for the extradition of James Walter Palmer, an American dentist who killed a well-known lion called Cecil, a Cabinet minister said Monday.

It’s a big deal. It’s one of the biggest deals David Stevens, a principal with Naples-based Investment Properties Corp., has ever brokered. How big a deal? Seven buildings and a parking lot on Fifth Avenue South in downtown Naples fetched $74.35 million.

Naples Daily News wins top award and other prizes in statewide advertising contest.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Florida quarterback Will Grier has been suspended indefinitely for violating the NCAA's policy on banned performance-enhancing drugs.Grier says he took an over-the-counter supplement and Florida plans to appeal the suspension, which is expected to last one year. Coach Jim McElwain says Grier made an honest mistake that could have been prevented by talking to the team's medical staff.

Mary Lambrecht knows what works and what doesn't to cope with her profound hearing loss.

The Fort Myers Police Department is investigating after a body was found Monday morning in the parking lot of a Lee County Ale House restaurant.

Hundreds of Collier County high school students have signed up for school district-sponsored email addresses — a new form of communication rolled out by school officials this year.

Eric Watters has been running on Naples streets for years.

A man with a loaded gun entered the Lee Justice Center Monday morning and county deputies have taken him into custody, said Sara Miles, a spokeswoman for the 20th Judicial Circuit of Florida.

A former State Attorney's Office investigator received three years in prison and five years of probation in the Christmas Eve 2013 hit-and-run death of a Fort Myers man.