NORTH FORT MYERS

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FORT MYERS, Fla. — A Florida man is accused of having sex with a 15-year-old girl he met while playing an online video game, authorities said. The teen said she met the man through the video game Fortnite in June 2022 and began talking to him again, according to the television station. According to the sheriff’s office, the victim told her father that she had sex with the man “multiple times” over the previous two weeks, WINK reported. Fortnite is a free, multiplayer video game where players enter an online world and collaborate to survive, the Herald reported. Marc Berkman, CEO of the Social Media Safety Organization, told WINK that there are plenty of risks for children playing online games.

FORT MYERS, Fla. — Bald eagles Harriet and M15 are no strangers to storms, so the pair immediately went to work when Hurricane Ian destroyed their North Fort Myers nest. Ginnie Pritchett McSpadden, the Southwest Florida Eagle Cam co-founder, told the Washington Post that the nest was “completely gone” and that “not a single stick was left” following Ian’s path of destruction. After the storm had passed, Harriet and M15 returned and immediately went to work building the nest from scratch. Moved by the resilience of the eagles, McSpadden told The Washington Post how we could learn from them. The bonded pair have endured seven hurricane seasons together at their property, McSpadden told The Washington Post.

Ian’s fierce winds howled through a Gulf coast trailer park with such force that residents felt they would be lifted off the ground, even blown away.

A pair of bald eagles in Fort Myers are expecting two more eaglets in their nest before the end of 2021.

This brush truck belonging to the Bayshore Fire Rescue was found about 80 miles away in Manatee County. NORTH FORT MYERS, Fla. – A firetruck was stolen from a Florida fire station while the crew was responding to a call Sunday. The Bayshore Fire Rescue department returned from the call to find a brush truck was missing. Several people posted sightings of the truck, which was eventually found about 80 miles away in Manatee County. “Thank you, thank you, thank you.”The truck wasn’t damaged.