Archive for May, 2010

Collier’s overall property value declined $9 billion or 12 percent in past year

Friday, May 28th, 2010

Kevin Lilly, director of tax roll compliance with the appraisera s office, said officials at the countya s various government agencies were more expecting of the decrease this year.

Island on oil watch

Friday, May 28th, 2010

BP launched its latest bid to plug the gushing well in the Gulf of Mexico by force-feeding it heavy drilling mud, a maneuver never before tried 5,000 feet underwater.

Mermaid art

Friday, May 28th, 2010

Chris Curle Special To The Eagle Tracy Gudgel shows her colorful corner at Waterfront Gallery at The Esplanade.

Haiti trip

Friday, May 28th, 2010

Submitted Thousands of destroyed buildings in Port-au-Prince on May 14 still need to be removed.

Court records shed light on Jake Couture killing

Friday, May 28th, 2010

Photos pulled from the public facebook page created in remembrance of Jake Couture.

Police Beat: May 26, 2010

Friday, May 28th, 2010

To report a crime or suspicious activity in your neighborhood, call the Naples Police and Fire Department at 213-4844, the Collier County Sheriffa s Office at 774-4434, the Lee County Sheriffa s Office 239-477-1000 or the Marco Island Police Department at 389-5050. a- Pit bull killed after mauling pug to death a- Naples man charged with stealing ...

Editorial: Canal rescue … heroes to driver, and to us

Thursday, May 27th, 2010

Ita TMs time to add two more names to the list of community heroes who put personal safety aside and jump in a ' sometimes literally a ' to help their fellow man, usually a stranger.

Indirect losses associated with oil spill may be hard for Southwest Florida businesses to claim

Thursday, May 27th, 2010

Get in line. Southwest Florida businesses arena t likely a top priority for BP when it comes to reimbursement from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

A former Marco Island man sentenced for drunken driving is suing the…

Thursday, May 27th, 2010

Vernon Criner, 62, who is now a quadriplegic living in Lansing, Mich., is suing physician's assistant JosA© Hernandez, who works in the Collier County jail, and its contracted medical provider, Tennessee-based Prison Health Services.

Collier deputies, Marco police discuss speeding danger on Collier Boulevard

Thursday, May 27th, 2010

Photo by QUENTIN ROUX Buy this photo>> A fishing reel sits atop a memorial roadside cross erected for a victim on Collier Boulevard near Mainsail Drive.