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08/17/15 - 1:30 -Syndicated food columnist Linda Gassenheimer, Special wine correspondent Fred Tasker and WLRN hosts Joseph Cooper and Bonnie Berman...

Okeechobee County hasn't raised its ambulance rate nor the rate to hire firefighters and paramedics for special duty details in four years.

Four defendants, including three big U.S. distributors, have struck a deal with Summit and Cuyahoga counties. It doesn't resolve thousands of other lawsuits filed against the firms across the U.S.

In Fairfax County, Va., the health department is training high school students to become health ambassadors in underserved communities and get a leg up on future careers in public health.

Collier County began accepting another round of applications for CollierCares On Monday. The program provides federal relief funds for people experiencing financial hardship resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Collier County Board of Commissioners will meet May 10 to vote on a Local Rental Ordinance which would require landlords to give their tenants 60 days written notice for rent increases over 5%.

You can look at the economic impact of Hurricane Ian from a variety of perspectives. Recently, Lee County Manager Dave Harner and Collier County Manager Amy Patterson shared their views with an audience of local business leaders at The Chamber of Southwest Florida.

No injuries were reported Sunday from a tornado that touched down in Charlotte County, but there was damage to a storage structure on a property in the path of the tornado, which traveled about a half-mile with a maximum width of 50 yards.

Grant will add three new workforce education academies at Lee County high schools and expand eight others.

Schools across Florida closed down back in mid March as the new coronavirus began spreading. The School District of Lee County has been working on its reopening plans for the fall semester for months, but as the outbreak continued to spread there was no major focus being placed on bringing back students for full time, five days a week schooling. But, that recently changed recently after Florida Department of Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran issued an emergency order requiring all brick and mortar schools to open for at least five days a week.