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Palm Beach County OKs $87 Million for Max Planck
When Florida's constitution was written, the state simply needed more people than it did money.
Collier County Police Briefs: July 18, 2008
To report a crime or suspicious activity in your neighborhood, call the Naples Police and Fire Department at 213-4844, the Collier County Sheriff's Office at 774-4434 or the Marco Island Police Department at ...
Mid-Air Crash Kills Clewiston Skydivers
A freak mid-air collision has claimed the lives of two skydivers in Clewiston. It happened at the Airglades Airport just east of town late yesterday.The skydivers were about 50-feet from the ground when they ...
Two At Tropical Mobile Home Park Arrested CLEWISTON, FL. -- Hendry County Sheriff's Narcotic Investigators executed a search warrant at Lot 61 in Tropical Mobile Home Park during the early morning hours Friday ...
Three men charged during three county fuel theft investigation
Two Lehigh Acres men and a Hendry County man have been arrested during a tri-county investigation into the theft of tax-exempt diesel fuel from farms.
2nd arrest made in fatal Manatee County shooting
Authorities have made another arrest in a fatal shooting that occurred on Sunday.
Residents Demand to be Heard in Departure of Sugar Company
CLEWISTON, Fla --- Three hundred farmers, businesspeople and residents filled the John Boy, Clewiston's auditorium to ask that their voices and votes be included in negotiations around the departure of one of ...
Quorey Payne didn't know if he wanted to play for the Mahoning Valley Thunder because the team was losing too much.
Thieves withdraw 3 ATMs from Lee County stores
It seems a bold move: an attempt to escape undetected with a 700-pound wire-protruding machine full of cash.
Another Investigation Success In Montura Ranch Estates LABELLE, FL. -- According to Sheriff Ronnie Lee, on July 1 Hendry County Sheriff's Narcotics Investigators conducting an undercover investigation into the ...
Charlotte Harbor's ecological recovery threatened by rains
Published Monday, June 30, 2008 at 4:30 a.m. Last updated Monday, June 30, 2008 at 6:53 a.m. For the first time in four years, clams in Pine Island Sound are ready to harvest, oysters are growing in thick ...
2nd firm holds key to Glades' sweet deal
The State of Florida announced it would buy the US Sugar Corp located in Clewiston, Fl.
Q&A Friday #91: Big Sugar And The Everglades
Question: "I e-mailed this to you earlier this week. Charlie Crist has orchestrated a deal where the State of Florida is going to buy U.S. Sugar out for almost two billion dollars and is going to flood their ...
Everglades Restoration Deal Sours Clewiston's Economy
When United States Sugar Corporation shuts down, it will put 1,700 Southwest Floridians out of work.
Fla. board OKs talks for US Sugar, Everglades deal
A historic conservation deal for Florida to acquire some 300 square miles of land for Everglades restoration moved forward Monday when water managers approved a negotiation process for the potential $1.75 ...
Ralph De La Cruz: Sale of U.S. Sugar land comes at a price - 1,700 jobs
When I heard of Gov. Charlie Crist's historic plan to buy 187,000 acres of U.S. Sugar land and turn the area between Lake Okeechobee and the Everglades into a true river of grass, I thought, 'What's not to ...
Florida town struggles with news of sugar shutdown
Welcome to "America's Sweetest Town" - born, built and raised on sugar, a true workingman's community in the sweaty heartland of the Everglades.
An offer that's hard to refuse
Published Wednesday, June 25, 2008 at 4:30 a.m. Last updated Wednesday, June 25, 2008 at 2:50 a.m. The deal, as the participants say, is monumental.
U.S. Sugar Getting Out Of Sugar Business
Sugar Selling 187,000 Acres And Company To State For $1.75 Billion CLEWISTON, FL.
Florida Governor Charlie Crist could be turning his constituents into sugar barons.