Naples, FL

A Naples woman was killed and her passenger seriously injured in a crash near I-75 Sunday night. An SUV driven by a 27-year-old Naples man with a 28-year-old man from Ave Maria as passenger was traveling west in the center lane of Pine Ridge Road, approaching I-75 around 9:19 p.m. A car driven by a 57-year-old woman with a 21-year-old woman as passenger, both from Naples, was traveling south in the inside left turn lane of the I-75 exit ramp, approaching Pine Ridge Road.

Road rage led to a collision involving three vehicles Sunday night in Collier County. According to the Florida Highway Patrol, three cars were traveling south on I-75, near the Immokalee Road exit, around 8:15 p.m. An ongoing road rage incident occurred between the first two cars, during which they drove aggressively and eventually collided. The first car, driven by a 19-year-old man from Miami Gardens, then collided with the third.

A former Collier County teacher was sentenced to 80 years on Monday for exchanging sexually explicit texts and having sex with a 14-year-old student. Joseph Mejia, 39, of Bonita Springs, was found guilty of four counts of lewd or lascivious battery after a five-day jury trial. Mejia was sentenced to...

Sunshine Ace Hardware will anchor The Plaza at Founders Square, a 48,500-square-foot retail strip of multiple units that will be in the center of the mixed-use development under construction on the southeast corner of Immokalee Road and Collier Boulevard in North Naples. Although it’s the first new Sunshine Ace in nearly 15 years, it will be the fifth location in Collier County and the 13th store on Florida’s Gulf Coast for the longtime homegrown hardware chain based in Naples. “Assuming we don’t have hiccups with the supply chain, we’re looking at opening no later than mid-2022,” said Michael Wynn, president of the family-owned company. The more than 21,000-square-foot store will be unique in that it will be the first Sunshine Ace Hardware to have a drive-thru for picking up online orders. The store will also have lockers for customer pickup convenience, a dedicated entrance for contractors and concentrations of fishing gear and commercial paint. Sunshine Ace and The Plaza will be surrounded by the other components of Founders Square: The Pointe restaurants, The Pearl apartments, Life Storage and Physicians Regional medical offices.

The Bonita Springs Fire Rescue and Control District confirms that a catamaran collided with a jet ski with two people on it. This happened near Hickory Blvd in Bonita Springs. Fire crews say both people on the jet ski sustained injuries, one of those being a pediatric patient. The child...

A pair of construction firms, one based in the region, one national, has been chosen to build the Gulfshore Playhouse Theatre — a large part of a $60 million project. The partners building the project are Bonita Springs-based Gates Construction and Providence, Rhode Island-based Gilbane. H3-Arquitectonica is providing design services.

Summertime fun at the Marco Island Historical Museum (MIHM) includes a full schedule of summer events. Marco Island Historical Society (MIHS) presents a range of summer happenings that include dynamic programs on Marco Island and surrounding area history and the area’s ancient, pioneer, and modern-day inhabitants. Programs will be presented in person.