Here are today’s traffic enforcement locations in Collier and Lee counties.

Jonah Johnston had a special set of clothes picked out for his Monday appointment: a new pair of khakis and a blue polo shirt good enough for the ceremony to be held in his honor. That afternoon, the Bonita Springs firefighters would recognize the 31-year-old Oakland Drive resident for pulling a disabled neighbor out of her burning trailer three weeks ago. Yet, when Monday afternoon rolled around, Johnston wasn’t dressed in his new clothes. Instead, he was wearing a more familiar set — the orange jumpsuit of jail inmates.

It’s all about perception. That’s what the conversation about the city’s annexation policy came down to Monday, with several Naples City Council members saying they wanted to give residents more input on future annexations.

Naples City Council’s first reaction to a proposal to consolidate fire district and Emergency Medical Services: What’s in it for us, and how much control do we lose?

Jonah Johnston had a special set of clothes picked out for his Monday appointment: a new pair of khakis and a blue polo shirt good enough for the ceremony to be held in his honor. That afternoon, the Bonita Springs firefighters would recognize the 31-year-old Oakland Drive resident for pulling a disabled neighbor out of her burning trailer three weeks ago. Yet, when Monday afternoon rolled around, Johnston wasn’t dressed in his new clothes. Instead, he was wearing a more familiar set — the orange jumpsuit of jail inmates.

A blood stain on the sidewalk along Fifth Avenue North in River Park marks the spot where 63-year-old Jacques Lamothe fell to his knees, gunned down in cold blood, the victim of an apparent robbery gone wrong. Police are searching for the suspects in Sunday’s late-night shooting, the second homicide this year in the city of Naples. Yet, with only five killings since 1992, homicides remain a rarity within city limits

The school community has some responsibility in a school’s grade. Monday evening, Immokalee High School asked the community’s help to improve its school grade from an F.

Collier County commissioners will put on their Board of Zoning Appeals hats Tuesday to take up a complaint for Ted Raia about Pelican Bay’s Waterpark Place development that was commonly known as Cap d’Antibes.

The meltdown in the U.S. economy put a chill Monday on Collier County’s proposal to buy the Pepper Ranch in Immokalee.
At million and 2,500 acres, the purchase would be the most significant purchase by the Conservation Collier program since voters created it in 2002.