Before Hurricane Milton’s landfall, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) deployed eight wave sensors between Naples and Crystal River and installed one rapid-deployment gauge on the Sunshine Skyway Bridge to measure the coastal waves caused by the storm.

Due to sustained winds reaching 45 mph and higher, first responders for Glynn County and the City of Brunswick – Police, Fire and Public Works – are unable to safely respond to emergency calls.

A recent surge in violence around soccer games is contributing to concerns over security when Germany hosts the European Championship.

Two top climate monitoring organizations are reporting that Europe is the fastest-warming continent and its temperatures are rising at roughly twice the global average.

NASA says it determined that an object that crashed through the roof of a Florida home last month was a chunk of space junk from equipment discarded at the International Space Station.

Archaeologists excavating new sites in Pompeii have uncovered a sumptuous banquet hall decorated with intricately frescoed mythological characters inspired by the Trojan War.

The 2024 legislative session ended Friday with an annual hanky-drop ceremony in the rotunda between the House and Senate chambers. Here are snapshots of 10 big issues from the session

Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday morning is set to hold an education-related news conference in Naples.

A local aviation expert said it’s uncommon for a business jet to have dual-engine failure after two people died in a fiery plane crash on a Florida highway on Friday.

Federal authorities have launched an investigation to determine why a private jet tried to make an emergency landing on a Florida interstate, colliding with a vehicle and sparking a fiery crash that left two people dead.

Two people have died after a small plane attempted to make an emergency landing on a Florida interstate Friday afternoon, colliding with a vehicle and bringing traffic to a halt as a massive plume of black smoke rose into the air.

Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives Paul Renner are set to hold a news conference Monday morning in Naples.

Nasa Hataoka and Amy Yang are on a record scoring pace at the CME Group Tour Championship.

Alison Lee shouldn't have any doubts about her game now.

Ruoning Yin wasn't feel very good about her game before she teed off in the CME Group Tour Championship.

Hundreds of small tremors have shaken a densely populated volcanic area west of the Italian city of Naples in recent weeks, pushing the government to quickly redraft mass evacuation plans, even though experts don’t see an imminent risk of eruption.

The Bartram Trail girls lacrosse team became the first area program, boys or girls, to win back-to-back state championships when it edged Fort Lauderdale St. Thomas Aquinas in a 5-4 thriller that went down to the final seconds on Saturday night in Naples.

The Bartram Trail girls lacrosse team is headed back to defend its state championship after knocking off Tampa Plant 13-6 in the Class 2A state semifinals on Friday afternoon in Naples.

Bartram Trail (17-4) will face Tampa Plant (18-3) at 2:30 p.m. on Friday afternoon in the Class 2A state semifinals in Naples. Five hours later at 7:30, Ponte Vedra (14-4) collides with Lake Highland Prep (19-3) in the Class 1A semi. That the area has teams in both classifications still alive and chasing championships is a testament to just how much the sport has grown in the area.

Napoli has won its first Italian soccer league title since the days when Diego Maradona played for the club.

Napoli fans are celebrating wildly in the streets of the southern city following the team’s first Serie A title in more than three decades.

Bolles is playing in the boys lacrosse state semifinals for just the third time in program history this week. The task is clear — bring home a championship. But coach Tom West has stressed one big thing to the Bulldogs in their quest.

At least one Napoli player is looking forward to the club’s possible title celebrations on Thursday in a town far from home.

Napoli fans are experiencing a full range of emotions.

Dribbling wizard Khvicha Kvaratskhelia and scoring wonder Victor Osimhen have been garnering most of the headlines for Napoli this season.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will hold a news conference Monday at a state college in Naples at 10 a.m.

A Ukrainian official says Ukrainian embassies and consulates in six European countries have received packages containing animals’ eyes in recent days.

Heavy rainfall triggered landslides early Saturday on the southern Italian island of Ischia that collapsed buildings and left as many as 12 missing.

Lydia Ko never won more in one day than on Sunday in the CME Group Tour Championship.

Lydia Ko's road to a $2 million payoff is a little rougher.

Lydia Ko is in total control at the halfway mark of the CME Group Tour Championship.

More than $100 million will be awarded to LPGA players for the first time in 2023.

Lydia Ko has shot 65 for a one-shot lead in the CME Group Tour Championship.

Desperate to locate and rescue their loved ones, social media users are sharing phone numbers, addresses and photos of their family members and friends online for anyone who can check on them after Hurricane Ian made landfall in southwest Florida.

Members of the media and area residents began posting videos and photos on social media showing the impact as the storm hit the area, including what some are calling a “reverse storm surge” where the water was sucked out of Tampa Bay.

Publix is closing stores in 11 Florida counties and modifying store hours as Hurricane Ian approaches, News4JAX sister station WKMG reported.

Liverpool manager Jürgen Klopp says he expects the team’s fans to show “the right respect” if UEFA accepts a request by the club for a minute’s silence to be held before the Champions League match against Ajax at Anfield on Tuesday in honor of Queen Elizabeth II.

There will only be one day in the year 2100 where nuisance high tide flooding isn’t an issue in the Fort Myers area.

The Middleburg softball team was no-hit in its state semifinal debut on Thursday. That wasn’t a problem with Mallory Forrester in the pitcher’s circle.

Same opponent. Same score. Same result. State champions.

Two area lacrosse teams remain standing in the state playoffs.

The Bartram Trail girls lacrosse team is complete, healthy and ready for the big stage. Finally.

A Ukrainian ballerina who fled the war in her homeland and a Russian ballerina who quit the Bolshoi Ballet over the Russian invasion rehearsed on a stage in Naples for a sold-out benefit performance Monday night to raise funds for the Red Cross.

Archaeologists in southern Italy say they have discovered the ruins of a painted brick wall and ancient warrior helmets at a site that might have been a forerunner of a temple dedicated to the goddess Athena.

Body camera footage released by authorities showed a man screaming in pain and pleading for help just before a sheriff’s deputy shot a Malayan tiger that had grabbed the man’s arm at a Florida zoo.

Authorities say a sheriff’s deputy shot a Malayan tiger that grabbed the arm of a man who was either feeding or petting the animal near its enclosure at a Florida zoo.

The Biden administration has taken action to restore federal protections for hundreds of thousands of small streams, wetlands and other waterways.

Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday announced more of his budget priorities for next year including a pledge to dedicate over $1 billion for resiliency efforts in Florida.

The chairman of the Florida Board of Education has been charged with illegally excavating in waters around his former property in the Florida Keys.

Italy's center-left forces, led by Democrats, are triumphing or clinching runoff slots in Milan and other big city mayoral elections, according to partial vote counts after two days of balloting.

Police say one of Italy's most wanted men has been arrested in Dubai.

Environment and energy ministers from the Group of 20 industrialized countries are meeting in Naples ahead of November’s crucial U.N. climate change conference.

A Florida bear had a pool party in Naples, Florida!

NAPLES, Fla. – Saying Florida needs to take the politicization out of its civics curriculum, Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday announced a $106 million proposal to support civics literacy and civics education in public schools. The proposal will direct the Florida Department of Education to create the Florida Civic Seal of Excellence, a new professional endorsement for civics education. “Let me be clear: there’s no room in our classrooms for things like critical race theory,” DeSantis said. Instructional materials shall include the contributions of African Americans to American society.”DCPS spokesperson Tracy Pierce said critical race theory is not part of the curriculum in Duval schools.

A view of a chariot, with its iron elements, bronze decorations and mineralized wooden remains, that was found in Civita Giuliana, north of Pompeii. Officials at the Pompeii archaeological site near Naples on Saturday, Feb. 27, 2021, announced the first-ever discovery of an intact ceremonial chariot, one of several important discoveries made in the same area outside the park following an investigation into an illegal dig. (Parco Archeologico di Pompei via AP)MILAN – Officials at the Pompeii archaeological site in Italy announced Saturday the discovery of an intact ceremonial chariot, one of several important discoveries made in the same area outside the park near Naples following an investigation into an illegal dig. While chariots for daily life or the transport of agricultural products have been previously found at Pompeii, officials said the new find is the first ceremonial chariot unearthed in its entirety. The villa was discovered after police came across the illegal tunnels in 2017, officials said.

Italian police officers stand by a copy of the Salvator Mundi (Savior of the World) by Leonardo da Vinci, in Naples, Italy, Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021. Italian police have recovered a copy of Leonardo da Vincis 16th century Salvator Mundi painting of Jesus Christ that was stolen from a Naples church without the priests even realizing it was gone. (Italian Police via AP)ROME – Italian police have recovered a 500-year-old copy of Leonardo da Vinci’s 16th century “Salvator Mundi” painting of Jesus Christ that was stolen from a Naples church during the pandemic without the priests even realizing it was gone. The painting is a copy of the “Salvator Mundi” (Savior of the World) by Leonardo that sold for a record $450 million at a Christie’s auction in 2017. It was restored prior to being exhibited in a 1983-1984 show “Leonardo and Leonardism in Naples and Rome."

TALLHASSEE, Fla. – Florida Senate Rules Committee chairwoman Kathleen Passidomo, R-Naples, announced Sunday she tested positive for COVID-19 and won’t attend committee meetings in person this week. “In anticipation of the upcoming committee hearings & other meetings in Tallahassee this week, I took a Covid-19 test on Thursday 1/7. I learned this morning that the result of the test is positive,” Passidomo, who is slated to become Senate president in 2022, tweeted. This week, lawmakers are holding the first of five weeks of committee meetings in advance of the 2021 session, which will begin March 2. The Senate is requiring members, staff and the news media to be tested for COVID-19 ahead of the meetings.

An undated photo made available by the Pompeii Archeological park press office shows the thermopolium in the Pompeii archeological park, near Naples, Italy. A fast-food eatery discovered at Pompeii is now completely excavated, helping to reveal some favorite dishes of citizens of the ancient Roman city who liked to eat out. (Luigi Spina/Parco Archeologico di Pompei via AP)ROME – A fast-food eatery at Pompeii has been excavated, helping to reveal dishes that were popular for the citizens of the ancient Roman city who were partial to eating out. Successful restaurateurs know that a good location can be crucial, and the operator of this ancient fast-food seemed to have found a good spot. Those bones were apparently disturbed in the 17th century during clandestine excavations by thieves looking for valuables, Pompeii authorities said.

NAPLES, Fla. – Florida authorities say that when two young men were pulled over for street racing, one of the drivers blasted the song “Bad Boys,” the opening theme to the TV show “Cops.”The Collier County Sheriff's Office said Oscar Llera Iturralde, 19, and Jose Ramirez-Sanchez, 20, were arrested and charged with racing on a public highway. A third man, Joel Aguilar Hernandez, 20, was charged with riding as a passenger in a race competition. The arrest report said he coordinated the race between the two vehicles. The sheriff's office says deputies saw the two cars drive past them when the passenger leaned out the window and yelled “20 roll on three,” which deputies say stands for “start racing at 20 miles per hour.”The deputies followed the cars, which began speeding after a traffic light turned green, going as fast as 95 miles per hour (about 153 kph), well over the 55 mile-per-hour limit on that stretch. After the drivers were pulled over, deputies say the youngest man, Llera Iturralde, blasted “Bad Boys” on his car stereo.

A woman stands outside her nativity scenes shop along San Gregorio Armeno street in Naples, in the Campania region, Italy, Friday, Nov. 13, 2020. The regions of Campania and Tuscany were designated red zone on Friday, signaling the dire condition of a hospitals struggling with a surge of new admissions. Naples hospitals made headlines this week when a video that went viral showed an elderly man lying dead on the floor of an emergency room bathroom. Unlike in wealthier northern regions, the medical system in southern Italy is more fragile. Union representatives note that 16,000 health care workers were cut in the 10-year period.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Fernandina Beach Republican Aaron Bean and Naples Republican Kathleen Passidomo will serve as top lieutenants to incoming Senate President Wilton Simpson, R-Trilby, Simpson announced Friday. Bean, who was first elected to the Senate in 2012 and has been a leader on health-care issues, will serve the next two years as Senate president pro tempore. “Throughout her years of public service, Senator Passidomo has gained the respect of senators on both sides of the political aisle by listening to the concerns each senator brings forward and working to build consensus,” Simpson said in a statement. “She has exhibited sound judgment and a fair-minded, reasonable and thoughtful approach to decision making that, I am confident, will be a great benefit to the Senate over the next two years.”The appointments were the first two announced by Simpson, who will formally become Senate president during a Nov. 17 organization session. Incoming House Speaker Chris Sprowls, R-Palm Harbor, announced a full leadership team and changes in House committees on Thursday.

The house of U.S. civil rights campaigner Rosa Parks, rebuilt by artist Ryan Mendoza, is on display in the courtyard of an 18th century Royal Palace, in Naples, Italy, Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2020. Its the latest stop for the house in a years-long saga that began when Parks niece saved the tiny two-story home from demolition in Detroit after the 2008 financial crisis. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

FILE - This Dec. 12, 2017 file photo shows the rebuilt house of the civil rights activist Rosa Parks in Berlin, Germany. In 2018, Brown University announced it would feature the house as part of a planned exhibition on the civil rights movement organized by its Center for Slavery and Justice. Earlier this year, Mendoza approached the Naples-based Morra Greco Foundation, where he had worked for a year in the 1990s. But now, “instead of being rejected by the walls of the royal palace, it’s embraced and protected by these walls,” he said. “Potentially thanks to the showing of the house in this way, America will allow the house to have a home.”___Winfield reported from Rome.

The NHC began issuing advisories on Tropical Depression 19 at 5 p.m. Friday. Forecasters predict 2 to 4 inches with isolated maximum amounts of 6 inches across west-central and southern Florida, including the Florida Keys, through Sunday. The depression is expected to grow into Tropical Storm Sally once it is over open water in the Gulf of Mexico later in the day. It will be the 18th named storm of this over-the-top hurricane season. Sally could intensify to a strong tropical storm or even Category 1 hurricane as it approaches the Mississippi/Louisiana coastline early Wednesday morning.

Jacksonville-based Southeastern Grocers said Feb. 4 it agreed in principle to take over five Lucky’s Market locations in Florida. Southeastern Grocers will open Winn-Dixie supermarkets at closing Lucky’s stores in Gainesville, Melbourne, Fort Myers, Naples and Lake Mary. Lucky’s, which is reorganizing under Chapter 11 bankruptcy laws, initially intended to keep the Melbourne store open. Previously, Aldi agreed to take over six Lucky’s stores, while Publix Super Markets Inc. agreed to take over leases at five properties including the Lucky’s store in Neptune Beach. Lucky’s said Feb. 4 it entered into asset purchase agreements with Southeastern Grocers, Seabra Foods and Hitchcock’s Markets for seven locations in Florida.

Edward K. Pearson has no immediate family, so a funeral home invited the public. (CNN) - After a funeral home invited the public to a veteran's service because he had no family, more than 1,000 people showed up to mourn him. When a social worker approached Legacy Options Funeral and Cremation Services, the owners said they knew they had to do something. "One of our ways of giving back to the community of Naples is we offer free funeral services to any indigent or homeless veterans," funeral director Michael Hoyt told CNN on Monday. News of his funeral services were shared widely on social media, including by CNN's Jake Tapper.

SARASOTA, Fla. - A funeral home in Naples is inviting the public to attend the funeral of a veteran with no immediate family. Edward K. Pearson, 80 of Naples passed on August 31, 2019. His public service will be held Tuesday, Oct. 1 at 12:30 p.m. at the Sarasota National Cemetery. LocationSarasota National CemeteryAddress9810 State Rd. 72SARASOTA, FL 34241Copyright 2019 by WJXT News4Jax - All rights reserved.

Naples, Fla. – Sad Update: Yuki has died from blood cancer, according to Shy Wolf Sanctuary. Yuki had hemangiosarcoma, which is a blood cancer. This morning during our rounds, Yuki didn’t come up for his... Posted by Shy Wolf Sanctuary on Thursday, November 12, 2020----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Yuki, a wolfdog currently living at a sanctuary in Florida, has gone viral over his big size and big heart. Shy Wolf Sanctuary says Yuki was only eight months old when he was taken to a kill shelter. The Shy Wolf Sanctuary in Naples took Yuki in.

1992: White separatist Randy Weaver surrenders to authorities in Naples, Idaho, ending the Ruby Ridge Standoff, an 11-day siege by federal agents that claimed the lives of Weaver's wife and son and a deputy U.S. marshal. Weaver was ultimately acquitted of all charges except missing his original court date on an illegal weapon charge and violating his bail conditions, for which he was sentenced to 18 months and fined $10,000. Credited with time served, Weaver spent an additional four months in prison. Vicki Weaver is seen here in surveillance video taken during the first day of the standoff. Hide Caption