Immokalee News

Toys, non-perishable food items, and clothing are being collected for the third annual Best is Yet to Come, Inc.

Around 5:30 p.m., Fernando Luis Rolon, Jr., of the 800 block of Edison Lane, intentionally hit his neighbor's dog on its forehead three times with a stick through Harold Holland's fence, reports said.

A week before its Thanksgiving in the Park event, the Guadalupe Center still needs food and is also in desperate need of a refrigerator truck .

Collier County commissioners say they want to take an extra look at hiring a successor to Theresa Cook, who is leaving as county airport director to work in aviation in Oregon.

Ia m Rob Lorei. Coming up today wea ll talk with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers about their effort to raise the wages of the people who harvest tomatoes here in Florida.

The first class of licensed practical nurses graduated from the recently opened Immokalee Technical Center .

Sam and the late Mary Ann Durso in 2007. NAPLES - Collier County's sixth Habitat for Humanity community is completed, and at least one 8-year-old is excited she can now help with the dishes.

The film documents the lives of Immokalee field workers. 'Immokalee U.S.A.' was shot without narrative, using the real dialogue from mostly migrant workers as they pursue - and sometimes fall short - of the American dream.

A photograph of a 7-year-old Immokalee boy missing for 10 months is on the cover of People magazine along with the photos of five other missing children and the headline 'Vanished without a Trace.' Such coverage brings awareness to missing-persons cases, said Ernie Allen, president of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, which ...

An upcoming issue of People magazine will feature six missing children including Adji Desir.

Yum Brands , McDonald's, Burger King, Subway, Whole Foods, food-service giant Compass Group, and Bon Appetit are all working with the CIW to improve wages and conditions for those who pick their tomatoes.

Car Enters Hendry Canal West of Clewiston CLEWISTON, FL. -- Charles William Guffey 53, of Immokalee died in a crash on Hendry County Road 833, one and one-half miles south of State Road 80.

A deputy hearing a description of three men who were stopped by another deputy realized they matched the description of suspects wanted for a Halloween Eve burglary.

A woman said she could help get two men released from jail on bond, but couldn't legally work as a bondsman.

Christopher John Duffy, 28, of the 400 block of 11th Street Southwest, Golden Gate Estates, was arrested Sunday by Collier deputies at an undisclosed location.

IHS 21-7 after one quarter. SECOND QUARTER EHS cuts to 21-14: EHS-Fenner 57 pass from Sides , 3:30 IHS leads 27-14 as first half closes: IHS-Johnson 13 run , :48 IHS 27-14 at halftime.

IMMOKALLE: The principal of Immokalee High School has recommended four football players arrested for rape be suspended for 10 days and then sent to the Phoenix Alernative Program to finish the school year.

Christina Jonsson-Maas comforts her son Landon Maas, 2, as they both wait to get the the H1N1 vaccine Thursday at North Collier Regional Park.

The Collier County School District has rolled out a new project that allows students who qualify for reduced meal benefits, which means they pay 40 cents for lunch instead of the $2 at the elementary school level, to receive school lunch for free.

A 29-year-old Immokalee woman who set a deodorant can on fire and threatened to stab a man to death has been sent to prison for five years.