LEHIGH ACRES LCSO investigating shooting in Lehigh Acres, 1 injured The Lee County Sheriffs Office is investigating a shooting that occurred around midnight.
1 dead after Charlotte County crash The Florida Highway Patrol is currently investigating a two vehicle crash that left one dead in Charlotte County.
LEHIGH ACRES 1 dead, 1 seriously injured after Lehigh acres crash The Florida Highway Patrol is investigating a crash in Lehigh Acres that left one person injured and one dead.
SOUTHWEST FLORIDA The Weather Authority: Steamy Sunday with feels-like temperatures in the triple digits This Sunday Southwest Florida will feel the heat. Next week, we will see much-needed rain.
ESTERO History made as Florida Everblades win third straight Kelly Cup title in OT Hertz Arena erupted in cheers the moment the Florida Everblades won their third straight Kelly Cup title in overtime.
FORT MYERS A breakdown of the final moments during the attempted Bank of America heist On Saturday, the lee county sheriff’s office released a graphic new video from an attempted bank robbery turned deadly.
CAPE CORAL Torah dedicated to Cape Coral temple At the basis of all Jewish sacred texts is the Torah, and it is known to be the most important book in Judaism.
CAPE CORAL SpaceCon blasts off in Cape Coral Southwest Florida SpaceCon is here! On the outside you may not notice it, but on the inside is where the fun really begins.
SOUTHWEST FLORIDA WINK Neighborhood Watch: Prison Escapee, Drugs, and Bricks This weeks segment of WINK Neighborhood watch features a wanted woman, a Cape Coral drug house, and bricks by the beach.
SOUTH FORT MYERS Inside the attempted Bank of America heist, SWAT situation, and sniper shooting Never-before-seen footage released from the Bank of America hostage situation and sniper shooting.
New details: FBI releases Brian Laundrie documents The FBI has released over 300 pages of unclassified documents pertaining to the murder investigation.
Southwest Florida The Weather Authority: A hot weekend with isolated showers and storms possible Keep an eye on the sky and your WINK weather app to track isolated showers and storms this weekend.
ESTERO Everblades on history’s doorstep after Kelly Cup Finals Game 4 win The Florida Everblades win Game 4 of the Kelly Cup Finals and move one win away from claiming history with their third straight Kelly Cup title.
FORT MYERS Downtown Fort Myers without Art Walk WINK News was downtown Friday night. Not many people were around but surprisingly, there was not much traffic.
Defying the odds: 64-year-old woman graduates from Uber’s scholarship program Michele Baron just graduated from Arizona State University at the age of 64, and she has quite the success story, all thanks to Uber.
LEHIGH ACRES LCSO investigating shooting in Lehigh Acres, 1 injured The Lee County Sheriffs Office is investigating a shooting that occurred around midnight.
1 dead after Charlotte County crash The Florida Highway Patrol is currently investigating a two vehicle crash that left one dead in Charlotte County.
LEHIGH ACRES 1 dead, 1 seriously injured after Lehigh acres crash The Florida Highway Patrol is investigating a crash in Lehigh Acres that left one person injured and one dead.
SOUTHWEST FLORIDA The Weather Authority: Steamy Sunday with feels-like temperatures in the triple digits This Sunday Southwest Florida will feel the heat. Next week, we will see much-needed rain.
ESTERO History made as Florida Everblades win third straight Kelly Cup title in OT Hertz Arena erupted in cheers the moment the Florida Everblades won their third straight Kelly Cup title in overtime.
FORT MYERS A breakdown of the final moments during the attempted Bank of America heist On Saturday, the lee county sheriff’s office released a graphic new video from an attempted bank robbery turned deadly.
CAPE CORAL Torah dedicated to Cape Coral temple At the basis of all Jewish sacred texts is the Torah, and it is known to be the most important book in Judaism.
CAPE CORAL SpaceCon blasts off in Cape Coral Southwest Florida SpaceCon is here! On the outside you may not notice it, but on the inside is where the fun really begins.
SOUTHWEST FLORIDA WINK Neighborhood Watch: Prison Escapee, Drugs, and Bricks This weeks segment of WINK Neighborhood watch features a wanted woman, a Cape Coral drug house, and bricks by the beach.
SOUTH FORT MYERS Inside the attempted Bank of America heist, SWAT situation, and sniper shooting Never-before-seen footage released from the Bank of America hostage situation and sniper shooting.
New details: FBI releases Brian Laundrie documents The FBI has released over 300 pages of unclassified documents pertaining to the murder investigation.
Southwest Florida The Weather Authority: A hot weekend with isolated showers and storms possible Keep an eye on the sky and your WINK weather app to track isolated showers and storms this weekend.
ESTERO Everblades on history’s doorstep after Kelly Cup Finals Game 4 win The Florida Everblades win Game 4 of the Kelly Cup Finals and move one win away from claiming history with their third straight Kelly Cup title.
FORT MYERS Downtown Fort Myers without Art Walk WINK News was downtown Friday night. Not many people were around but surprisingly, there was not much traffic.
Defying the odds: 64-year-old woman graduates from Uber’s scholarship program Michele Baron just graduated from Arizona State University at the age of 64, and she has quite the success story, all thanks to Uber.
FILE — In this Nov. 18, 2020, file photo, University of Utah student Abigail Shull takes a rapid COVID-19 test in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File) St. Michael’s College managed to keep coronavirus cases at bay for almost two months this fall with students tested upon arrival and once every three weeks. But in mid-October, cases at the small Vermont school started to climb. The outbreak was linked to an ice rink more than 40 miles (64 kilometers) away. The liberal arts college shifted to all-remote learning and closed the campus to visitors. By November, a total of 76 of the roughly 1,600 students had tested positive, the school said. “It was very concerning to experience the spike in cases that we did after so many weeks of surveillance tests with no positives,” President Lorraine Sterritt said by email. When students come back for the spring semester, St. Michael’s will begin testing them weekly. The college may also require students to move to a separate residence hall when they are told to quarantine. The coronavirus presented huge challenges for the fall semester for U.S. colleges that opened the academic year with in-person learning, including some that took a battering from outbreaks. Those not joining the growing number that will offer only virtual learning are assessing how they would bring students back after the winter holidays while the country faces crushing rates of virus infections. Schools that are bringing students back are adjusting testing protocols, introducing new screenings, and eliminating spring breaks to discourage students from traveling to help keep campuses open. Other schools big and small think it’s still possible to keep a pandemic-era residential college experience. California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo plans to add saliva testing in the winter quarter that will be processed on campus and will allow it “to test many more people much more quickly — our current estimate is 4,000 tests per day by mid-January,” President Jeffrey Armstrong said in a campus-wide message this month. In the spring semester, Colby College in Maine wants to add some rapid antigen tests to twice-weekly tests for students, faculty and staff. It also did away with the one-week spring break replacing it with two mini-breaks in March and April. “We’ll program stuff for the campus so people get a break,” Chief Financial Officer Douglas Terp said. More schools are expected to require students get tested before they come to campus rather than when they arrive, as some institutions did before the fall semester, said Barbara Mistick, president of the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities. Institutions like Syracuse University in New York abandoned in-person learning earlier than planned this fall but are planning on a resumption of campus life next semester. But a growing number of schools will stick with virtual instruction through the spring. “We are seeing a rapid rise in colleges and universities announcing they will move to remote learning for the remainder of this semester and for the spring,” said Lynn Pasquerella, president of the Association of American Colleges and Universities. George Washington University in Washington, D.C., for one, announced early last month it will continue most of its classes virtually. Student cooperation with protocols helped to keep the number of coronavirus cases low at the University of Vermont’s campus in the small city of Burlington, President Suresh Garimella said. On a recent day, students wearing masks streamed through a tent outside the student center where they are required to be tested weekly. They stayed apart, stopped at a station to sanitize their hands and blow their nose and then proceeded into the indoor testing center. “It’s part of my routine,” said sophomore Brian Boyle of the testing. The school received federal coronavirus relief funding for virus-related expenses like testing, but Garimella estimates it will spend an additional $10 million to $15 million. There are also a lot of precautions in place, rules for social distancing and the maximum number of people in a group, Boyle said. It’s harder to get together with people socially, but he said students can find ways to go about it and still follow the rules and be safe. “You know being outside in small groups and stuff,” he said. As cases rose in Vermont and at UVM in November, though, he said he was becoming a bit concerned about whether the spring semester will be in-person. “My biggest concern is probably that people will become more relaxed with their individual social distancing/quarantining measures over winter break,” he said by email. “I can only hope that people will remember how important these safety measures are, and will continue to practice them for the sake of their health and for the sake of our education.” ____ AP writer Michael Casey contributed to this report from Boston.