State regulators shuttered Commerce Bank of Southwest Florida in Fort Myers, Fla., Friday night, bringing the 2009 national tally to 124.
The air tastes warm and salty, and the midmorning sun glints off the turquoise waves that sway the Dare.
Sun Belt cities dominated the list of metro areas with the biggest foreclosure problems during the first six months of 2009.
Foreclosures in April exceeded even March's blistering pace with a record 342,000 homes receiving notices of default, auction notices or undergoing bank repossessions, according to a regular industry report.
A man who landed a plane with the assistance of air traffic controllers after the pilot fell unconscious and died said Monday he was "still in a daze of adrenaline."
Team USA second baseman Dustin Pedroia left the team Saturday to be examined by Red Sox doctors in Fort Myers due to a strained muscle near his rib cage.
With eyes tearing, some stare off into space. Others sit quietly with an expressionless pain as they wait for the inevitable.
Acts of kindness will help pull the nation through its economic crisis, according to the woman who came to the rescue of a homeless Floridian who publicly appealed to President Obama.
She's being hailed as the "face of the economic crisis," and now Henrietta Hughes has become something of a media star after reaching out to President Obama in an emotional plea for help.
Ever since her hometown of Fort Myers, Florida, earned the distinction of having the highest rate of foreclosures in the country, Lynette Lorenz has spent the bulk of a year away -- 1,200 miles away -- from her home and her husband.
State regulators shuttered Commerce Bank of Southwest Florida in Fort Myers, Fla., Friday night, bringing the 2009 national tally to 124.
The air tastes warm and salty, and the midmorning sun glints off the turquoise waves that sway the Dare.
Sun Belt cities dominated the list of metro areas with the biggest foreclosure problems during the first six months of 2009.
Foreclosures in April exceeded even March's blistering pace with a record 342,000 homes receiving notices of default, auction notices or undergoing bank repossessions, according to a regular industry report.
A man who landed a plane with the assistance of air traffic controllers after the pilot fell unconscious and died said Monday he was "still in a daze of adrenaline."
Team USA second baseman Dustin Pedroia left the team Saturday to be examined by Red Sox doctors in Fort Myers due to a strained muscle near his rib cage.
With eyes tearing, some stare off into space. Others sit quietly with an expressionless pain as they wait for the inevitable.
Acts of kindness will help pull the nation through its economic crisis, according to the woman who came to the rescue of a homeless Floridian who publicly appealed to President Obama.
She's being hailed as the "face of the economic crisis," and now Henrietta Hughes has become something of a media star after reaching out to President Obama in an emotional plea for help.
Ever since her hometown of Fort Myers, Florida, earned the distinction of having the highest rate of foreclosures in the country, Lynette Lorenz has spent the bulk of a year away -- 1,200 miles away -- from her home and her husband.
The frantic pace of foreclosures eased in January, according to a monthly report released Thursday.
President Obama took his pitch for an $838 billion economic stimulus plan to conservative southwest Florida on Tuesday, making a campaign-style pitch to a region hit hard by the current recession.
Foreclosure filings dropped 7% from October to November, according a report released Thursday. But don't break out the bubbly. The tide of foreclosures may be ebbing now, but the flood isn't over yet.
Long lines, empty shelves and Thanksgiving chickens are just a few symptoms of the economic downturn's effect on food banks and community pantries across the country.
The country singer spent a month behind bars over probation violation
Housing prices have plummeted, but property tax bills probably won't budge.
The number of Americans losing their homes to foreclosure continued to soar in June, according to a report released Thursday.
Inadequate signage and traffic control devices on a Georgia interstate contributed to a 2007 bus crash that killed seven people, including five college baseball players, federal investigators concluded Tuesday.
Under the glow of a southwest Florida sun, sleek sailboats dance on turquoise seas. With every gentle lapping of the warm blue water on Captiva, a whispered tinkling sound settles around your bare feet. It's the murmur of the Gulf of Mexico tumbling pink, orange, red, gray and blue shells on the ivory sand.
FORT MYERS, Fla. -- The hope of the Twins, whatever hope there might be, is rubbing down his left elbow, checking out all the new faces around the room. There is still plenty of talent in this clubhouse, even without Johan Santana, Torii Hunter and all the other Twins who have disappeared since Francisco Liriano, the hope of 2008, first blew people away as a rookie in 2006.
Sharon Long's work has earned her the nickname "Skull Lady."
Dear FSB: I opened a fashion store in a high-income snowbird area last February. The store has high overhead and a high lease. With all the bad signs for the economy, stock market and real estate market, our market was hurting even before we settled here. With a limited budget, what would be the best marketing strategy to attract more customers?
Dear FSB: I've tried about every method in the books to promote my online jewelry store, but I'm still not seeing sales. It seems like unless you have megabucks for marketing and advertising on the Web, you can't compete with the big online retailers who dominate search engines. What's a startup to do?
The woods off Arcadia Street in Fort Myers for years concealed an unmarked graveyard, police say.
Foreclosure filings have nearly doubled from a year ago and more people could lose their homes in 2008, according to a report released Thursday.
In 1968 Clint Hurdle was a precocious 10-year-old kid dragging bats for the Cocoa Astros of the Florida State League and playing an occasional game of catch with a promising Astro first baseman named John Mayberry. Now, in 1978, Hurdle is tall, dark, handsome and brash and able to hit a baseball nine miles, and he and Mayberry are together again, this time at the Kansas City Royals' training camp in Fort Myers, Fla. Clint Hurdle, you see, is trying to take away John Mayberry's job.
The growing desert city of Yuma, Arizona, has been home for I-Reporter Pamela Carvajal Drapala and generations before her since the 1800s. Drapala was born there in 1954, and says her Mexican ancestors were some of the first people to move to Yuma.
It kind of takes the fun out of hazing when even the media participates. -- Tyler, Louisville, Ky.
Atlanta has been the fastest growing metropolitan area in the nation since 2000, with a gain of nearly 900,000 residents to 5.1 million.
Embarrassment. Injury. Blunt force trauma. Estate planning. The mind quickly accelerates the possibility and the amplitude of catastrophe when you are standing on the infield grass, as I am, 75 feet in front of Boston Red Sox slugger Manny Ramirez while he bats with a runner on first base. No infielder ever would be so foolish to put himself this close to the potential harm of a Ramirez line drive, not even armed with world-class hand-eye coordination, a fielder's glove and a protective cup -- all of which, as I am most acutely aware, I do not possess at this moment.
FORT MYERS, Fla. -- Nobody knows where Torii Hunter will be this time next spring. Nobody knows, if you get right down to it, where he'll be four months from now.
Winter storms stir up a bounty of prize shell specimens on the shore. Coastal Living magazine rounds up 10 of the best beaches to hunt for them.
Also in this column: • Zambrano's money matters • Possible spring trades • Grapefruit League primer
A US Airways passenger faced charges of interfering with a flight crew Thursday after he apparently unknowingly slapped an undercover federal air marshal, said an official familiar with the case.
Now that we've pointed out which markets are poised for a bull run in the next cycle, we'd be remiss if we didn't also offer some guidance on which locales look the most vulnerable right now.
"How much money is enough?" a reporter once asked John D. Rockefeller at a time when the oil tycoon was the richest man on earth. His quick reply? "Just a little bit more."
On World Refugee Day, Angelina Jolie proved again that she is not your typical celebrity.
Single-family home prices finished 2005 with gains of more than 10 percent for the year, according to the latest report from the National Association of Realtors.
The Department of Homeland Security has tapped the nation's truckers to help find a man who has been seen taking photographs of tanker equipment.
President Bush recently defended a secret program that eavesdrops on some international phone calls involving U.S. citizens, saying the United States must be "quick to detect and prevent" possible near-term terrorist attacks.
Police blew up suspicious packages in a car parked near the U.S. Capitol on Friday, more than two hours after the two occupants told authorities the vehicle contained a bomb.
Single-home price growth over the 12 months ending June 30 was the strongest in history, according to the National Association of Realtors.
A wealthy Florida retiree was found guilty of second-degree murder for shooting his wife and dumping her body in the bay behind their upscale Fort Myers, Florida, home in July 2002.
Small droplets of blood were found in the home of a Florida retiree who stands accused of killing his wife, but even the lead forensic investigator in the case has admitted he could not pinpoint when or how they got there.
After four months, thousands of contestants and countless attempts to hit notes well above middle C, "American Idol" is down to its final three weeks -- and its final four contestants.
A battle between Howard Stern and a southeast radio station owner heated up this week as the shock jock pulled his morning show off a Florida station.
Police in Florida are investigating the discovery of three packets of radioactive material in the chair cushion of a Naples medical clinic administrator.
Hurricane Charley was downgraded to a Category 1 storm as it crossed the Florida peninsula Friday after causing "significant damage" as it came ashore on the state's southwestern coast.
Robert Belcher, a retired mailman in Fort Myers, Fla., recently wrote to tell me about his successful investing career. Now 80, Belcher began what he calls his "self-education" through "reading and...
BEND, Ore. (CNN/Money) - Are two houses better than one? A growing number of second-home owners seem to think so.
Neither as sturdy as bars nor as fragile as truffles, these rich confections are ideal gifts. Just don't buy them too far ahead; they are at their best for only a fortnight or so. Here, listed alph...
BEND, Ore. (CNN/Money) - Are two houses better than one? A growing number of second-home owners seems to think so.
Suggesting Florida for the family's winter getaway probably won't garner you a reputation as a discriminating traveler -- until, that is, you mention the islands of Sanibel and Captiva.
In July, 82-year-old Brit Beatrice Muller "retired" to the Queen Elizabeth 2, the grande dame of cruise ships, saying it didn't cost much more than a retirement home. Intrigued, we set up this comp...
Which website would you be more likely to visit: Bradys.com or Bradys.tv? Ads for DotTV claim that a Web address ending with ".tv" sets you apart from the Web crowd. But the spots don't mention tha...
How many times have you strolled along a beach or by a harbor, watched sailboats riding the breeze and daydreamed about being out there among them? Unfortunately, even a modest 20-footer costs at l...
The migration of America's industrial leaders to the South and West continues. Some are older companies, lured by cheap land, low taxes, good weather, and right-to-work laws. Others are newcomers, ...
If the shoe splits, turn it into a running track. That's what Nike would like to do. In a pilot project in Fort Myers, Florida, one August weekend, Nike collected 1,100 pairs of old sneakers. Now N...
Companies shopping for locations should consider a lesson car buyers learned years ago: Small to midsize models often do the job more efficiently than bigger, better-known alternatives. As growth o...
For three days last month, the streets of Fort Myers, Fla., were ''teeming with zombies''. . . Some 300 local residents . . . had been engaged to portray zombies in the second sequel to (George) Ro...
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