Immokalee News

Nearly a year since it opened, the Immokalee Business Development Center has helped six small business owners open their doors to potential success.

The Naples Daily News reports Martinez worked at the Goodwill Store in Immokalee.

Norelia, the Titans' 182-pounder who finished fifth last year at the 1A state championships, buzz-sawed his way through one overmatched opponent after another.

A thrift store employee accused of giving customers deep discounts without permission was a case of "the poor trying to help the poor," authorities say.

Nearly a dozen farm workers made the trip from Immokalee on Friday to Naples. Their destination was a Publix in Naples.

A few controlled burns in eastern Collier and Lee counties combined with winds from the east/northeast at 15 mph is causing the hazy and smelly conditions.

Trader Joe's and the Coalition of Immokalee Workers have reached an agreement formalizing the grocer's support of the coalition's Fair Food Program.

The Collier County Sheriff's Office is asking motorists to be on alert for additional bicycle traffic along Immokalee Road and other neighboring roads Friday morning.

Donna Flavin and Bryan Delgado work on a bug jar. Hideaway Beach Club hosted Buddy Day for the 20th year on Wednesday, bringing second graders from Immokalee for a day at the beach.

In a Pinellas County beach community, young women were held captive in a large waterfront house without clothes, money or identification, forced to work in local commercial sex trade joints strictly for the pleasure and profit of others.

Lexey Swall/Staff Immokalee High School's Mackensie Alexander runs the ball during the Class 5A regional final in Immokalee.

After more than a billion dollars in cuts to Florida's public schools last year, layoffs, program reductions and angry protest, there's a push in the other direction.

NAPLES, Fla.- Immokalee farm workers are tuning up their bikes, set to travel to Trader Joe's grand opening in Naples on U.S. 41, near the intersection of Immokalee Road.

Federal charges have been filed against two Alabama women accused of trying to smuggle five illegal immigrants into Immokalee on Sunday.

Immokalee, Fla. defensive tackle Deadrin Senat knew heading into the recruiting process that he would have plenty of options.

Authorities are looking into whether the arrests of two women and five Mexican citizens over the weekend are part of a larger human smuggling ring.

Lundin, 58, who is running as a Democrat, said he is running to give the people of Immokalee more of a voice in county government.

A farmworkers' advocacy group has added a new company to its picketing list. About a dozen farmworkers will be pedaling from Immokalee to Florida's first-ever Trader Joe's. Coalition of Immokalee Workers ' fieldworkers, who spend the tomato season picking crops in Immokalee, tuned up their bicycles on Monday afternoon.

A routine traffic stop for a missing license tag outside Tampa on Saturday ended as a human trafficking case after authorities say they found five illegal immigrants being driven to Immokalee by two Alabama women.

A Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office report says a deputy stopped a car without a tag Saturday afternoon.