WOKC Local News – November 11, 2026, 7:41 AM
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WOKC News. Helping the cows with WOKC News. I’m Charles Murphy. The Florida Cattlemen’s Association and the Florida Cattlemen Foundation teaming up to give out a limited supply of round and square hay bales to ranchers in need. The emergency relief supplies started yesterday at the Okeechobee AgriCivic Center and will be available today from nine until three while supplies last. Martin County Fire Rescue says 81,000 vehicles travel through the village of Indiantown each day. They have 100 trauma alerts in the past three years and a 21% increase in calls. Fire Lieutenant Scott Risk says they also have a larger fire department in Indiantown now. Out-of-zone move-up coverages are down 16%. So previously, if Station 24’s units were committed, you would get tropical farms coming out here, which takes 15 to 20 minutes at times. To South Florida, men are charged with stealing light poles from property at 11 Mile Road, south of Okeechobee Road near Midway Road. They were spotted by drones stealing 34 aluminum light poles valued at $6,800. 33-year-old Pablo Rojas Castro of Pembroke Pines and 35-year-old Alberto Hernandez of Miami are facing charges that include burglary during a state of emergency, as well as grand theft, possession of burglar’s tools, and traveling across county lines to commit burglaries. Lake Okeechobee levels have been rising rapidly and the healthy vegetation there hasn’t been helped. There’ll also be some controversy whenever they spray on Lake Okeechobee. Angler Scott Martin says they’re undoing the submerged vegetation growth by spraying for hyacinths. Because these are the areas that we have the most growth, the most SAV coming back, and that’s our filter. But yet we’re gonna spray the areas with the most SAV because there may or may not be a hyacinth or two. An Okeechobee man living in an RV had the home towed away by a dually. Okeechobee County deputies worked it as a case of grand theft, but no charges will be filed. Turned out the owner was taking it because he hadn’t been paid rent on it. Okeechobee deputies in the area of Northwest 240th Street are wanting to figure out who shot a tractor and cost $10,000 in damage. The tractor was in a field off the road about 50 yards. There had been shooting at night and the owner checked it out the next day, and found considerable damage. They think it was shot six times. And the engine also, some of the glass around the cab was shattered. Deputies say they wanna talk to who was ever driving a white Ford F-250 in that area the night before the damage was discovered. A Venus man charged with threatening to shoot someone who was walking past his home. The victim claims the suspect had shot him in the face with a pellet gun on September 3rd. In this new case, John Wyatt was charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. The victim was walking down the road and Wyatt allegedly had a small rifle on a golf cart where he was seated while making more threats. Deputies from Highlands County had to wrestle with the suspect as he tried to run into his home. One taser was deployed to bring the man under control. I’m Charles Murphy, WOKC News.
Recorded from the WOKC daily newscast (Glades Media).