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[6] [7] Of the annual average long-form traffic crash reports completed by Florida law enforcement agencies, the 2011 study found that FHP investigated 32% of crashes, county sheriff's offices 23%, and municipal police and other agencies 45%. [5]
Hendry County is a county in the Florida Heartland region of the U.S. state of Florida. As of the 2020 census , the population was 39,619, [ 1 ] a 1.2% increase from 39,140 at the 2010 census . The county is majority-Hispanic or Latino . [ 2 ]
A deputy's son "agreed to exchange a handgun, (later found to belong to his deceased father), for a sum of $300" back in February, the Hendry County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement.
About 4:00 a.m. on August 23, 1987, the crew on board a 75-car, 6,000-ton Union Pacific freight train, more than a mile long and traveling at a rate more than 50 miles per hour, en route to Little Rock, Arkansas, spotted two boys lying motionless across the tracks, about 300 feet ahead. [1]
In the days since, guns have killed at least 2244 more people. Chicago has seen more recent gun deaths than any other city in the U.S. In a speech there, President Obama said "too many of our children are being taken away from us" as a result of gun violence.
State Road 82 (SR 82) is a 29-mile-long east–west highway serving northern Lee and Collier County, Florida (and "clipping" the southwest corner of Hendry County).The western terminus is an intersection with Cleveland Avenue (US 41-SR 45, part of the Tamiami Trail) in Fort Myers; the eastern terminus is an intersection with SR 29 midway between Immokalee and Felda.
Winds reached 90 mph (140 km/h) in Hendry County. Trees were downed and some aircraft at the LaBelle Municipal Airport were damaged. [96] About 60% of orange crops were lost throughout Hendry County, which has most citrus trees of any county in Florida. [97] Close to 10,000 customers lost electricity – nearly 100% of the county.
The Perry massacre was a racially motivated conflict in Perry, Florida, in December 1922.Whites killed four black men, including Charles Wright, who was lynched by being burned at the stake, and they also destroyed several buildings in the black community of Perry after the murder of Ruby Hendry, a white female schoolteacher.