News Cast for September 16th:
The Okeechobee School Board approved a near $216.6 million dollar budget. It is inflated with the costs of the new Okeechobee High school factored in.
The property taxes collected for schools will rise by 4.9 percent due to higher property values and new growth.
Superintendent Dylan Tedders promised the district will stay within its means.
He said they have spent the last of federal funding due to the pandemic.
Quick notification led to an arrest of an assassin who was run off from Donald Trumps private golf course in West Palm Beach.
He was armed with an AK 47.
Palm Beach Sheriff Ric Bradshaw says the would be assassin got to within 300-500 yards of the former President.
An eye witness got the license plate of the fleeing vehicle and thanks to license plate readers, it was located in Martin County. The SUV was pulled over in Martin County on I-95 near the Martin Grade route 714 exit minutes later.
The suspect, Ryan Routh of Hawaii appears in court today and will face both state and federal charges.
A 47-year-old Kenansville woman died in a single vehicle crash on Canoe Creek Road.
The crash occurred near Sunset Ranch Road late Saturday night.
The Florida Highway Patrol said the sport utility vehicle was headed south bound when it went off the road and flipped over into a ditch.
The driver died at the scene.
The 16-county Lake Okeechobee Coalition learned the Big Cedar Lodge project is still very much alive.
They were pushed to have Lake Okeechobee as its own separate project as they seek state and federal funding to clean things up.
South Florida water management promised major infrastructure repairs and improvement.
Drew Bartlett points out the Lake Kissimmee structure was built in 1964.
He said while the structure is not failing, it is badly need of replacement.
All school systems in the state of Florida were disrupted in some way by threats made on social media in the past week.
In St. Lucie County an 11 year old was arrested for alleged threats to a middle school.
Volusia County had more than 50 threats in the past week.
A threat made from Manatee County resulted in an arrest on Friday.
Treasure Coast law enforcement investigated seven school threats in the past four days.