The family landed in Charleston Park, a tiny settlement of farmworkers on the outskirts of Alva, where their mother kept a cast-iron pot of stew constantly simmering in the yard for hungry neighbors.

The parcel-by-parcel Alva Inc. review showed 28 percent, or 37 of the 131 owners of record in Charleston Park, have Charleston Park addresses. Most owners, 28, had Fort Myers addresses followed by ...

One person was taken to the hospital following a shooting Saturday evening in an Alva neighborhood. It happened at about 7:15 p.m. at Charleston Park, just off Palm Beach Boulevard.