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A construction accident seriously injured one person Monday afternoon and is causing traffic backups on Alligator Alley.

The rich worry about their children's success in and after college--and sometimes ask them to pay for it, too.

Evelyn Bitterman puts her heart into every needle, thread and scrap of fabric she uses. Her love pours out from her sewing room, a shed, really, where she has boxes upon boxes of color-coordinated fabric scraps and wall shelves full of thread spools; from the trunk of her car, where she is storing hand-made cat beds to deliver to the Humane Society of Naples; and from a spare bedroom in her Naples home, where she has the quilts she's donating to Manatee Elementary School students.

Two years ago, Augustus Sol Invictus walked from central Florida to the Mojave Desert and spent a week fasting and praying, at times thinking he wouldn't survive. In a pagan ritual to give thanks when he returned home, he killed a goat and drank its blood.

The Justice Department and five states on Monday announced a $20 billion final settlement of claims arising from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

A Naples-based real estate brokerage has expanded into the Orlando market. Premier Sotheby's International Realty acquired Stirling Sotheby's International Realty in Orlando last week.

Buddy Quarles, an embattled Collier County businessman and one-time Lely football star and coach was found dead over the weekend in his North Naples home, according to a Collier County Sheriff's Office incident report.

KISSIMMEE, Fla. — A central Florida high school football coach is accused of hitting a referee after a disputed call, and he faces a battery charge.

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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The latest on the search for a U.S. cargo ship carrying 33 people that has been missing since it encountered high winds and heavy seas from Hurricane Joaquin. All times local: