Ocoee News

January 30 - Lana Gail Lowe, 50, Etowah, Simple possession/casual exchange ... Donald Ray Copeland, 70, Cleveland, Accessory to theft over $1000 ... Ricky Dale Evans, 60, Ocoee, Forgery.

Polk County's unemployment rate was 13.1% in December, up from 12.7% in November and 11.4% in December 2010.

Leitner, Williams, Dooley & Napolitan, PLLC has been named the most prolific trial law firm in Tennessee for 2011, according to The Tennessee Jury Verdict Reporter.

January 23 - Jacob Newell Hart, 33, Ocoee, Failure to appear ... Ricky Earl Hawkins, 51, Copperhill, Violation state probation ... Stanley Ray Dunn, 31, Farner, Capias ... Amanda Victoria Laminack, 19, Ft.

The congested intersection of 25th and Ocoee streets is in the design stage of a major makeover by the Tennessee Department of Transportation.

Questions were raised after a handful of residents checked a voter registration website to find they appeared to have been purged.

Local Breast Cancer Survivor Louise Hale of Ocoee and her brother Howard Miller have released their first book titled "13 Minutes To Live," t Penny and the children were all invited to New York to help write a book for other children to get through domestic violence.

Nancy Hathaway of Ocoee recently snapped this photo, commenting "Our neighbors kitten,A Ricky, is a bit large for this peach tree." The Copper Basin Medical Center's District Board honored Dr.

Gerald and Kathi Barrett's first years of what they thought would be glorious retirement to quiet, beautiful Tennessee have become a fight with land developers who promised more than they could deliver.

Monday is the day set aside to honor the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. A number of community programs were scheduled during the weekend, including the eighth annual Dr.