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Find out who is running for school board. Plus Collier County Commissioners meet today.

This year has brought an unusually grim and steady drumbeat of violence throughout the country.

Another family of a sailor aboard a cargo ship that sunk after being caught in Hurricane Joaquin is suing the vessel's owner.

Sometimes tragic circumstances lead to business owners practicing what they teach.

Congressional leaders are throwing their collective weight behind a hard-won, two-year bipartisan budget plan aimed at heading off a looming government debt crisis and forestalling a government shutdown in December.

Expect showers to spread in from the Gulf starting during the late morning hours Tuesday.

Both have spent most of their lives drunk or stoned. Both have hit bottom. And, as of today, both are graduates of A St. Matthew’s House program designed to help them and those in similar straights build a new life.

"In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, to struggle together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities of life."

I'm only talking Halloween this week, as my family gears up for some trick or treating. Here's this week's family fun:

A circuit court judge said Monday that she could temporarily reinstate two fired Lee Domestic Animal Services employees if she determines they attempted to blow the whistle on suspected county interference in a criminal animal cruelty case.