Immokalee News

The Southwest Florida Workforce Development Group has started a new program that will help students choose careers while paying them to attend school.

Collier deputies spend significant time and resources on 10 percent of the local teen population that can't stay out of trouble.

COLLIER COUNTY : The Immokalee airport is being set up to become a staging area after a natural disaster.

IMMOKALEE, Fla. -- Two Latina farmworkers have launched a Spanish-language radio program called "Conscience Radio" to empower their community, reports La Prensa Florida.

An Immokalee teen used his cell phone to call 911 while he was under arrest and in the back seat of a Lee County Sheriff's Office cruiser -- after he called the deputy a "racist Cracker cop," according to a Lee County Sheriff's Office arrest report.

Is the noose tightening around Seminole Casino Immokalee's blackjack tables, or will they remain in play? With nearly two months remaining before a gaming compact between the Seminole Indians and the state must be inked - an agreement in which blackjack and other Class III card games would be removed from the Immokalee casino - tribal leaders ...

LEE COUNTY: A church trailer was stolen from Lehigh Acres and now hundreds of families in need will pay the price.

NORTH NAPLES: A driver hunting for the cell phone he'd dropped in his truck plowed the vehicle into a dentist's office waiting room Thursday morning.

By Naples Daily News staff report Originally published 6:18 p.m., Wednesday, June 24, 2009 Updated 6:18 p.m., Wednesday, June 24, 2009 NAPLES - Star Trek slots are set to "beam down" Thursday at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casinos in Hollywood and Tampa as well as Seminole Casinos in Coconut Creek, Hollywood, Immokalee and Brighton.

To report a crime or suspicious activity in your neighborhood, call the Naples Police and Emergency Services Department at 213-4844, the Collier County Sheriff's Office at 774-4434 or the Marco Island Police Department at 389-5050. Collier sheriff Deputies: Immokalee woman threatens man with knife, fire from spray deodorant can A 29-year-old woman ...

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 389-5050. Collier sheriff Domestic violence arrests Tina Gonzales, 31, 4110 16th Place S.W., Golden Gate, was arrested Tuesday at home.

Crist. The new members of the Big Cypress Basin board are attorney Pam Mac'Kie, a former Collier County commissioner and South Florida Water Management District deputy director; former Collier County planner Noah Standridge, now president of Centrus Planning; and Immokalee activist and former basin board member Fred Thomas.

With the opening, Publix also became the first big box retailer in the two-year-old community.

Governor Signs Gambling Bill CLEWISTON, FL. -- Governor Charlie Crist has signed Florida Senate Bill 788, relating to gaming, which outlines the Legislaturei 1 2s parameters for a 15-year compact with the Seminole Tribe of Florida that will maximize funding for K-12 public schools.

To report a crime or any suspicious activity in your neighborhood, call the Lee County Sheriff's Office at 477-1000 or you can remain anonymous and call Crime Stoppers at 332-5555 or 1-800-780-TIPS. Lee sheriff Arrests Jorge Cervantes, 41, 1415 N. Pear St., Immokalee, was charged Wednesday with driving while license suspended/first offense.

It's unlikely the Seminole Indians can accept the Legislature's proposal to expand gaming at their Florida casinos in its current form, a tribal lawyer said Friday, but he remained confident a deal with the state can be struck.

PENNY PHILLIPPI / Executive director, Immokalee Community Redevelopment Agency 5:00 p.m., Wednesday, June 10, 2009 Editor's note: Collier County commissioners have chartered the Immokalee Area Master Plan and Visioning Committee to work with the Immokalee Community Redevelopment Agency.

It was a short meeting for such a long document. Collier County fire leaders Friday took draft consolidation legislation line by line to see if it was user friendly, and a "one size fits all" bill, as North Naples Fire Commissioner Jim Burke referred to it.

A 40-year-old Immokalee man who pulled out a boxcutter and slit his girlfriend's face and eye "for no reason" last summer was sentenced to 30 years in a state prison Monday.

By Naples Daily News staff report Originally published 12:58 p.m., Sunday, June 7, 2009 Updated 12:58 p.m., Sunday, June 7, 2009 IMMOKALEE - Storms knocked down power lines near Immokalee early Sunday afternoon, causing the Collier County Sheriff's Office to close County Road 858 to traffic, two miles east of State Road 29.