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"The Allure of Immortality: An American Cult, a Florida Swamp, and a Renegade Prophet" unveils the history of the Koreshans.

Kristen Coury got bitten by the theater bug working on plays at her high school in Buffalo.

The trauma center serving Southwest Florida might be moved from Fort Myers to south Lee County. How will this affect the region?

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After months of quiet, there’s finally activity in the Florida House District 106 race starring Republican Collier County Commissioner Georgia Hiller.

Florida Department of Corrections Secretary Julie Jones ran the state’s prison system early last week from the front seat of a state-issued Ford Taurus as she drove to Orlando for a TV interview.

A Journal Sentinel/MedPage Today review of 75 drug industry-funded courses involving testosterone found that half the faculty experts also received direct payments from drug companies as speakers, consultants and advisers.

Testosterone drugs are not the only controversial area of medicine than have been the subject of industry-funded doctor education courses.

A person who appeared to be a man was rushed by ambulance from First Street in Fort Myers after event-goers at Zombicon fled down the street yelling about a shooting. 

The Florida Highway Patrol is reporting that a vehicle crash with injuries is blocking westbound State Road 82 near Immokalee.