Business owner too afraid to go to work Candle shop owner says she’s a target of racial harassment By Renee Stoll Story Created: Jan 27, 2010 at 10:19 PM EST Story Updated: Jan 27, 2010 at 10:49 PM EST COLLIER COUNTY, FL. – A Collier business owner says she’s loosing money everyday. The reason? She says she’s being harassed because of the color of her skin. “I’ve been so scared coming to my shop because of the incident that happened,” candle shop owner Kerren Laitalille explains. Just months after Laitalille opened, she says she’s being harassed. “They don’t want me here because of my race and my color.” Laitalille has a list of restricted late night calls that recently same to her business line, leading her to call 911. She says the caller on the other end was threatening her. “Oh you n****r, I’m going to make sure you guys close down. I’m going to call Collier County zone to get your black a** out of this property. We don’t want your kind over here,” Laitalille recalls the man on the other end saying. But, she’s not the only one harassed. Laitalille tells me another minority business owner in the plaza had his shop vandalized. That owner wasn’t available to talk. The sheriff’s office is looking into the incident. In the meantime, the candle shop remains closed and loosing money because its owner is in fear of what might happen next. Unfortunately for her, Laitalille says she may have to relocate her business for her own safety.
January 28, 2010 | Posted in
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Outbreak of Norovirus at 5 Collier nursing homes By Nicole Papageorge Story Created: Jan 27, 2010 at 6:11 PM EST Story Updated: Jan 27, 2010 at 6:11 PM EST COLLIER COUNTY, Fla. – The Health Department is reporting an outbreak of the Norovirus in five nursing homes. “Symptoms of Norovirus are nausea, vomitting, diarrhea, headache, chills and general fatigue,” says Deb Milsap with the Collier County Health Department. Norovirus is very common. The Centers for Disease Control says more than 23-million Americans get the virus every year. It’s also highly contagious. “It spreads easily from person to person to person and it usually occurs where people congregate or live closely together; cruise ships, dorms and nursing homes,” says Milsap. Two nursing homes are still not admitting new residents into their facilities so they can help contain the virus. The Health Department says thye have seen people at local emergency rooms with similar symptoms. The best way to protect yourself and your family is by washing your hands thoroughly.
January 27, 2010 | Posted in
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Largest child porn bust in Collier history Man has over 500 files of child porn By Renee Stoll Story Created: Jan 26, 2010 at 6:42 PM EST Story Updated: Jan 26, 2010 at 10:38 PM EST EAST NAPLES, FL. – The Collier County Sheriff’s Office has it’s largest child pornography bust ever Tuesday morning. Twenty-four year old Daniel Guevara-Vilca is in the Naples jail tonight, and the computer forensics team is going through three computers taken from his home. Detectives at a press conference Tuesday afternoon tells us what they saw on his computer were sex acts with children from six to twelve years old, with each other and adults. Guevara-Vilca was home Tuesday morning with his mother and younger brother when deputies arrested him. Detectives say he admitted to the 500 files of pictures and videos on one computer, but investigators say they expect to find at least 200 more files on two other computers taken. The sheriff’s office says the images will be take off the computers and sent to the Agency for Missing and Exploited Children so victims can be identified in their nationwide database. Guevara-Vilca is facing eight months in jail for each file of child pornography if convicted.
January 27, 2010 | Posted in
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To report a crime or suspicious activity in your neighborhood, call the Naples Police and Fire Department at 213-4844, the Collier County Sheriff’s Office at 774-4434, the Lee County Sheriff’s Office at (239) 477-1000 or the Marco Island Police Department at 389-5050.
January 27, 2010 | Posted in
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Collier County commissioners voted unanimously Tuesday to ask Gov. Charlie Crist and the Cabinet to approve navigational markers for Clam Bay after the state Department of Environmental Protection sent a letter to the county earlier this month revoking its 2009 approvals.
January 27, 2010 | Posted in
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Naples Bath and Tennis Club is finally getting its hotel. The issue has been to court twice. And while there’s still some opposition to the project, about 250 club members turned out Tuesday to urge Collier County Commission members to vote yes, and they did.
January 27, 2010 | Posted in
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Staff writer I.M. Stackel will blog from today’s Collier County Commission meeting, which begins at 9 a.m. Continue to follow her blog throughout the day at naplesnews.com.
January 26, 2010 | Posted in
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The Collier County Health Department is monitoring an outbreak of Norwalk virus that forced five nursing homes to stop admitting residents. So far, at least a dozen people have been hospitalized with the virus.
January 26, 2010 | Posted in
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An investigation just more than a month in the making ended early Tuesday with what is believed to be the biggest child pornography bust in county history when investigators from the Collier County Sheriff’s Office arrested a 24-year-old East Naples man who they say had more than 500 illicit images and videos on his home computer.
January 26, 2010 | Posted in
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Collier County Commissioners agreed to spend $200,000 more on the new Marco Island Historical Museum set to open in February. The decision came during their meeting today after an earlier offer from Marco Island City Council to match up to $350,000 with the county to pay for exhibits in the newly constructed museum on Heathwood Drive.
January 26, 2010 | Posted in
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