Okeechobee County News

Despite the removal of the watch, showers are expected to stick around for the remainder of the day, weather officials said.

Ok - the tree is up, the holiday shopping is well underway but the house still looks bare.

In rural Palm Beach County, Fla., pastor Dick Witherow ministers to a community he calls "modern-day lepers": convicted sex offenders.

Fort Pierce Department of Solid Waste: No pick-up. Waste Pro: No pick up Nov. 26. Pick up next scheduled day.

The Okeechobee County Health Department said there will be a drive through immunization clinic for H1N1 priority groups tomorrow at the south parking lot of Okeechobee High School from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. The vaccinations are free.

Get a swine flu vaccine to go. A drive-through H1N1 immunization clinic has been scheduled for Saturday for H1N1 priority groups, the Okeechobee County Health Department said Friday.

Three Palm Beach County men are in custody in Okeechobee County after deputies said they drove to the area to find a woman to kidnap and rape.

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.

Numerous studies have come out recently highlighting the dangers of the swine flu and its relentless attack on children.

Vero Beach-based developer Kite Properties, LLC recently celebrated the Grand Opening and Ribbon Cutting at the new 85-room Hampton Inn in Okeechobee, Florida.

A former sergeant with the Okeechobee County Sheriff's Office has been charged with forcing a female inmate to have sex with him.

H1N1 vaccines are pouring into our area by the hundreds as area health departments and local providers prepare to distribute them.

Twenty farmers and ranchers will be honored on Oct. 8 for their environmental stewardship at the Okeechobee County Agri-Civic Center.

Florida's Heartland Rural Economic Development Initiative will change its accounting procedures.

A cow fell on a man at a dairy farm early Friday, sending him to a local provisional trauma center via helicopter after the apparent milking-related incident, a St.

A man had to be airlifted to the hospital early Friday morning after a cow fell on him, a St.

More than 200 businesses on the Treasure Coast and in Okeechobee County have been cited for selling alcohol to underage people, according to state records from January 2004 to August 2009.

A fatal crash in south Osceola County has blocked a portion of State Road 60 near Florida's Turnpike .

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission is investigating the death of two men in Okeechobee County.

Two dead bodies were found this morning floating on Lake Okeechobee in Okeechobee County, and authorities are investigating their deaths.