Okeechobee News

St. Lucie County's fifth swine flu-related death - and the sixth on the Treasure Coast - was a 53-year-old man who died Monday, St.

A Georgia woman claims Sebring resident Rikelle Purcell, who died last week after what authorities describe as a murder-suicide, was set to leave her abusive boyfriend before she was shot to death.

The schedule for the 2010 FLW Series Eastern Division was announced Friday. The first of four tournaments in on Lake Okeechobee Jan.

A high-profile growth watchdog group called on the state Wednesday to rein-in the Palm Beach County Commission, whose land use decisions, they fear, will cripple the multibillion-dollar Everglades restoration.

Health officials in Okeechobee County announcing, at this point, they are only doling out the H1N1 vaccine to at-risk residents, but the county has already seen one death most likely due to complications from swine flu.

Highlands County Sheriff's Deputies responded to a 911 call at 4401 Shamrock St.

A Florida man accused of killing his son-in-law in New Jersey is arguing that he was unable to commit the crime because he was too fat.When Edward Ates takes the stand in his defense Wednesday, he's expected to tell jurors he wouldn't have had the energy needed to climb and descend the staircase where prosecutors say the killer was perched when he ...

Trevor Keezer in front of The Home Depot in Okeechobee, Fla. Keezer says he was fired from his job as a cashier at The Home Depot because he wore an American flag button that read, "One nation under God, indivisible." WEST PALM BEACH , Fla.

OKEECHOBEE, Fla. -- A man said he was fired from his job as a cashier at Home Depot because he wore an American flag button that read, "One nation under God, indivisible." Trevor Keezer, 20, said he'd been wearing the button for 19 months at the home supply store in Okeechobee.

A 36-year-old Indian River County man with underlying health conditions died with complications from H1N1, the novel influenza virus first identified in April and now widespread throughout Florida and the U.S. Most cases of H1N1 are mild, but some people - including those with underlying health conditions such as heart disease or diabetes - are at ...

Trevor Keezer didn't start working at The Home Depot to make a religious statement.

ST. LUCIE COUNTY, Fla. - Two Southwest Florida soldiers were hit by car and killed on Florida's east coast on Saturday night.

Back in the '50s and '60s, Mrs. Cleaver, you know Beaver's mom, always had one on.

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Dahlias and Colorful Saluteswill fill the skies over Boca Grande Saturday night as part of the Boca Grande Fall Festival.

Fewer than a quarter of the nearly 80 nursing homes in Palm Beach County and the Treasure Coast are licensed to nonprofit groups, but most pay executives well within national and state norms - and often earn top ratings from regulators.

Florida is half-solid, half-liquid. Rivers and creeks coil through the state like curling blue and brown ribbons; springs boil up underfoot; the Atlantic and the gulf reshape the shore, encroaching on the paltry works of humankind.

LEE COUNTY: Nutrient levels in Lake Okeechobee are four times the state's legal limit and it's affecting the Caloosahatchee.

In the past year, Lafayette County dairies have suffered a crisis. And they aren't the only ones.

After 11 hours of testimony and public input, Highlands County Commissioners unanimously turned down the rezoning request for Eagle National Security Training Center.