A school bus and a car crashed on 16th Street SW and Gunnery Road in Lehigh Acres.

The driver of a Collier County ambulance, which was struck by an unmarked Collier County Sheriff’s Office vehicle and overturned while transporting a patient on Nov. 28, was deemed to be at fault in the accident, the Florida Highway Patrol reported. However, no charges will be filed against the ambulance driver, 56-year-old Eva Weeks, because she was performing her duties when the accident ...

Just months after appearing to put its financial house in order, the county is absorbing a spate of bad economic news, including estimates that it lost as much as $16 million in this year's troubled bond market and that property tax collections could drop another $30 million.