WOKC Local News – October 08, 2026, 7:40 AM
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WOKC News. Protecting election integrity with WOKC News. I’m Charles Murphy. The governor signed into law our Senator Aaron Grawl Save Act. Where are opportunities for fraud? Because the bad guys are always looking for those opportunities. The election integrity bill requires US citizenship to vote. She argued the bill was intended to standardize ID requirements at the polls. Florida already had required voter ID. The legislation tightens those rules. No longer are student IDs valid. However, you can use your driver’s license, state ID cards, military ID, and concealed carry license at the polls. St. Lucie County Commissioner is voting 3-2 to remove all flock cameras from county roads. James Clasby has some concern that private data is being sold and compromised. The Department of Transportation are removing many of their cameras. County Commissioner Larry Leitz says it could be an invasion of privacy. There is definitely the concern of privacy. We don’t know where our information is being sold to. And I do 100% agree that we need to get some legislation before we start approving these. Ribbon was cut on a 7-mile long, $52 million pump station project in Palm City. It’ll benefit the St. Lucie estuary and the Indian River Lagoon. Governor Ron DeSantis was there. He thinks the state will be repaid for all the money they’re investing in the environment It ends up yielding even more money in return. And part of that is tourism. Part of that is the fishing, the boating. All the great pastimes that we have here in the free state of Florida is going to be better. There have been 90 projects completed since DeSantis took office. A chain reaction crash involving a school bus in Highlands County. It happened on US 27 in Venus at Gould Road East. The kids were headed towards Lake Placid. There was 11 on board. Two suffered minor injuries. And the bus driver also suffered minor injuries. A semi-truck apparently didn’t see the bus had stopped with a box truck in between them and collided with the box truck. Neither of those drivers were injured. Okeechobee Super Walmart had to be evacuated after an equipment problem in the meat cooler. County Fire Rescue said they responded to a report of a fire behind the wall in the store in the cooler section. But customers’ employees were not aware of any problem. They evacuated the building as a precaution, only minor damage done. An alleged reckless driver still being sought after being chased on 441 and 441 SE. It was reported that the white Ford truck with a white camper was driving in the northbound lanes headed southbound on 441 near Lakeshore Curve. Deputies caught up to the truck in the 7000 block of 441 SE and the vehicle pulled over into a parking lot on 86th Boulevard, but apparently the driver got out and ran. Deputies looked along with canines but could not locate the man. The vehicle was registered to a resident of Immokalee. The owner claimed he had loaned out the truck to a man he had known five years ago.
Recorded from the WOKC daily newscast (Glades Media).