A 46 year old Okeechobee man died in a single vehicle crash in Glades County.
The Florida Highway Patrol said a sedan was north bound on state road 78 when for some reason it left the road off the east shoulder and landed in the canal.
Trooper reports said the accidently likely happened on Sept. 23 and was reported Sept. 24.
The crash remained under investigation.
A 70 year old Okeechobee man and a 63 year old Fort Pierce woman died in a two vehicle crash in Palm Beach County Tuesday.
The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office said Peter Bouchard of SE 125h Trail and Sue Fogg of Fort Pierce died in the crash on 710 north of Indiantown Road.
The fatalities were in a Ford sedan headed north bound on 710 when it swerved to the left, crossed the median and collided with a south bound pickup truck.
The driver of the Dodge 3500 Fernando Negrin, 69, and Caridad Alonso 61, of Loxahatchee, both suffered serious injury.
Only one resident spoke at a public hearing at city hall as the city applied for a grant to improve Centennial Park.
The city requested $300,000 to install a permanent dock at the park.
Resident Caya Ortega requested the city install a new swing set and also install additional lighting at the facility on Taylor Creek.
An Okeechobee man is charged with helping his brother by destroying evidence.
Noe Ponce was charged with attempting to tamper with evidence and held on $50,000 bond.
His brother Elmer Ponce faces felony charges related to promoting a sexual performance by a child, transmission of harmful materials to a minor, online solicitation of a minor and contributing to the delinquency of a minor.
The arrest affidavit said Elmer called his brother on the jail phone for an over seven-minute conversation shortly after his arrest. The report claimed Elmer asked his brother to delete what he has, and all there friends have, presumably on their phones or computers.
The Highlands County Board of County commissioners objected to the state not giving them any appropriation projects this year.
They note they are a fiscally constrained county and are not at the 10 mill cap. At the same time, the state constantly complaints about local governments spending too much and raising taxes.
Chairman Arlene Tuck said she advocates cutting taxes and notes that all department budgets in the county had room to be cut.
County administrator Laurie Hurner said they don’t waste property taxes in the county.
The Florida Supreme Court refused to halt the execution of Victor Tony Jones for a 1990 double murder in Miami.
Part of his appeal argument was the fact Jones was a client at the Okeechobee School for Boys.
Jones Attorneys argued newly discovered evidence show Jones suffered brutal beatings and other abuse at the school when he was a teenager. Jones was eligible for receive funding from the state for the alleged abuse.
The court found the defense never brought this abuse that occurred nearly 50 years ago.
The defense wanted the sentence to be commuted to life in prison.
Jones killed his employers Matilda Nestor, 66 and Jacob Nestor, 67, at a business in Miami in 1990.
The Florida Catholic Conference wrote a letter supporting Jones.
“It cannot be that with one hand the state pays out compensation to men abused and tortured as children in its care, (Abuse of which the jurors in this case were not tole) while at the same time with its other hand puts one of these victims to death.”
Jones is scheduled to be executed on Sept. 30.