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Officials: Florida panther struck and killed by vehicle April 13, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail IMMOKALEE, Fla. (AP) An endangered Florida panther has died after being struck by a vehicle. It’s the eighth panther death attributed to fatal collisions, out of 13 total deaths this year, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. The remains of the 1-year-old female panther were found Saturday in Collier County on a rural road to the south of Immokalee, wildlife officials said. Florida panthers once roamed the entire Southeast, but now their habitat mostly is confined to a small region of Florida along the Gulf of Mexico. Up to 230 Florida panthers remain in the wild. ....
Family struggles as $60M judgment after crash remains unpaid JAKE ALLEN, Naples Daily News April 11, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail Angela Crowe, left, poses for a photo with her mother, Joan Antonuccio, right, while holding their dog at their home in Tampa, Fla., on Tuesday, March 30, 2021. A jury awarded $60 million to Crowe and Antonuccio in 2015 in a judgment against a former North Naples bar that served Crowe and her then-boyfriend too much alcohol on the night of the crash in 2003. Crowe and Antonuccio haven’t received a cent of that money. (Alex Driehaus/Naples Daily News via AP)Alex Driehaus/AP NAPLES, Fla. (AP) Joan Antonuccio begged God not to take her daughter as she rushed to Naples Community Hospital from her home in Golden Gate Estates. ....