Lake Park News

The Collier County School District provides meals for thousands of students every school day.

A half-round porch with columns, above left, shelters the entry at the front of the house, which is landscaped with palms and lush plants.

Now what to top them with... - My favorite thing at Park Avenue BBQ and Grill is not barbecue at all -- it's the sweet, deep fried corn fritters ordered a la carte from the menu.

4, 2009 LAKE PARK, Fla. - WPBF.com A Lake Park jewelry store owner who got into a shootout with four people who tried to rob his business Monday told WPBF 25 News he's "still John Wayne" and would fire his gun again to defend himself.

A Lake Park jewelry store owner got into a shootout with four people who tried to rob the business Monday afternoon, the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office said.

Monroe County sheriff's detectives have identified the body of a woman found a week ago wrapped in plastic and washed up in the mangroves of Jewfish Key.

Police shut down the adult entertainment club Platinum Showgirls Friday night following a four-month undercover investigation that led to charges of drug trafficking, underage drinking and prostitution.

Charges against three youths accused of stealing exotic animals from the Palm Beach Zoo have been increased from burglary to grand theft, a third-degree felony punishable by up to five years in prison.

There are about a dozen unlicensed and unregulated "sober houses" in the town, and resident Kevin Bandy wants to see them more tightly regulated.

"We will be in four schools every day," she said. "What we are predicting so far, based on consent forms, is to give approximately 1,100 shots total per day." Some schools may have greater participation rates than others and concerned parents are allowed to be with their child when the vaccination is given, Millsap said.

John King says he's been waiting. Ever since Hurricane Wilma smashed his mobile home near Lake Park four years ago today, he has waited for the Federal Emergency Management Agency to give him the new one he says he was promised.

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Lake Park will change its decades-old system of electing town commissioners to satisfy the U.S. Department of Justice that it isn't trying to keep blacks from elective office.

Cleaner drinking water - and possible annual rate increases - could be the end result of a new $77 million Seacoast Utility Authority water treatment plant scheduled to start construction next month.

A woman has died as a result of injuries suffered from an accident that took place last December.

The bodies of two Hispanic men have been found floating in a lake in downtown Clearwater.

A 46-year-old man who disappeared from a Lake Park rehabilitation center was found this afternoon and has been taken to St.

Duane and Gayla Christensen of Wellington announce the engagement of their daughter, Lauren Lindsey Christensen, to Thomas Anderson Biggs, son of John Biggs, Jr.

Earl Stewart is the owner and general manager of Earl Stewart Toyota in North Palm Beach.

For the past year, we have been telling you about an auto paint shop in Lake Park that fixes up donated cars for single moms.