Detectives with the Highlands County Sheriff's Office have confirmed the identity of a victim found inside a burned vehicle Nov. 29 in Hardee County. The victim's name is Dwight Clyde Williams, 46, a citizen of Jamaica. He had been living in Highlands County under the alias Malik Addullah Muhammad at the time of his death, according to a press release. The name was withheld until his identity could be identified. ...more

December 19, 2008

A Polk County Fire Rescue battalion chief who helped a choking toddler this year was honored recently at a luncheon hosted by an awareness group founded by instructors of cardiopulmonary resuscitation. ...more

December 16, 2008

With 4,200 homes proposed, the Sunrise residential development proposed for the eastside would be the largest subdivision to ever hit Hernando County. ...more

December 11, 2008

County approves rezoning of 4,200 homes. ...more

December 10, 2008

A lawsuit filed by a Knoll-Century Hill subdivision resident against the homeowner's association will come to trial on Dec. 29. ...more

December 10, 2008

A Bradenton woman can finally prove what she's known all along: she is a U.S. citizen. Somebody just found her green card, issued in 1952. ...more

December 5, 2008

6:30 a.m.: In the gray of pre-dawn in Lutz, two women stood in line to vote in a presidential election for the first time in their lives -- one because she was finally old enough, the other because she became a U.S. citizen in June. They were separated by about a dozen other voters at the First United Methodist Church. At 6:30 a.m., the line was growing about two to four people a minute. ...more

November 4, 2008

KISSIMMEE - Authorities say they have arrested a woman who fled a hit-and-run almost two years ago where two children were killed. ...more

November 1, 2008

More than 200 Highlands County taxpayers are owed money by the IRS. The IRS is looking for 203 county residents who have yet to receive a refund check. The average citizen due a refund is missing $650, or $131,983 countywide. ...more

October 25, 2008

It shocks me to read about another incident at the sheriff's office so soon after the accident incident a few months back. It appears to me that it is another cover-up in the sheriff's department; the "blue wall is up." ...more

October 10, 2008