Miami man is in custody after his property was raided by the Okeechobee County Sheriff's Office and the Okeechobee City Police.

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The state would receive 10,000 acres initially, but it would have to wait seven years for an additional 30,000 acres. That's a long time, and a pretty sweet deal for U.S. Sugar.

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Kasey Edwards, 18 at the time, tussled with an 11 1/2-foot alligator during a 2:30 a.m. swim in an Okeechobee canal after drinking earlier. The gator chomped off a portion of his left arm before he was flown to Holmes Regional Medical Center in Melbourne.

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Robert E. Davis was stung more than 100 times about 10:40 a.m. Wednesday at an abandoned hunting camp in the Viking Properties subdivision off 101 Ranch Road in northwestern Okeechobee County, according to the Okeechobee County Sheriff's Office.

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So-called killer bees may have claimed their first human victim in Florida, state officials said Friday in announcing a fatal attack earlier this week in remote Okeechobee County.

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That process once occurred naturally before flood control diversion projects prevented storm overflow from spreading out over surrounding wetlands.

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An alarming engineering report on the 140-mile (225-kilometer) dike around Florida's Lake Okeechobee has prompted emergency management officials to prepare evacuation plans for 40,000 residents living near the lake.

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