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A new tropical depression formed east of the Bahamas on Sunday night.

Bloated bellies filled with air instead of food. Flies crawling on the eyes of children who are so used to it they barely seem to notice.

Aldi still has plans to open its first discount grocery store in Southwest Florida on Naples Boulevard in North Naples.

A storm system in the Gulf of Mexico will continue to push an ample supply of tropical moisture in our direction.

MIAMI — Sammy Watkins's bittersweet sophomore season continued Sunday. Sweet because his Buffalo Bills team earn a divisional road win — bitter because the South Fort Myers High School product didn't see the field for very long near his hometown.

The proposal to build a Publix supermarket on the northeast corner of Immokalee Road and Randall Boulevard continues to move through the planning and permitting process.

Call it a supermoon, a harvest moon or a blood moon. The lunar eclipse Sunday will mark not only the aligning of the moon, earth and sun, but also the coinciding of a handful of rare celestial events that will make for a spectacular show in the night sky.

Michael Spiegel, who last month was convicted of murdering his ex-wife and her fiancé at a marina in 2014, was found dead at the Lee County Jail Core Facility the day before his sentencing.

Fort Myers police are investigating a homicide at a 7-Eleven on Colonial Boulevard.