How do you respond to emotional statements about coal mining that overstate reality? Many statements in the Tribune's Feb. 18 editorial ("Put An End To Mountaintop Mining") were simply false. ...more

February 25, 2008

TAMPA - Three people accused of taking items from an unlocked car on Tuesday were chased through downtown Lakeland by people who witnessed the incident until police arrived, authorities said. ...more

February 19, 2008

SEBRING — A Sebring man remained in Highlands County Jail in lieu of $150,000 bail Friday, charged in connection with a reported armed burglary, armed assault and kidnapping of a Sebring woman. Chad Anthony Martin, 27, of 7414 County Road 17 S., Sebring, was booked in Wednesday on charges of burglary of a dwelling, structure or conveyance while armed, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, and kidnapping to commit or facilitate a felony. On Nov. 8, sheriff's investigators met with a Sebring woman who reported that at about 11 p.m. Nov. 7, in the 3000 block of Sparkling Drive, in Sebring, she heard a noise of her kitchen door opening. She looked out her bedroom door and spotted two people standing in her living room, the report stated. She locked the bedroom door and tried to get out through her laundry room door, which connected to her bedroom. As she tried to get out through her back porch, she reported she was grabbed by her hair by a man she knew only as Chad. ...more

February 2, 2008

SEBRING — A Sebring man remained in Highlands County Jail in lieu of $150,000 bail Thursday, charged in connection with a reported armed burglary, armed assault and kidnapping of a Sebring woman. ...more

January 31, 2008

SEBRING — A Sebring man was free Tuesday on $6,250 bail, after he was arrested Monday in connection with a rash of "car fishing" burglaries in Highlands County. ...more

January 15, 2008

TAMPA - Police have busted an organized burglary ring after a four-month investigation, investigators said this morning. ...more

January 3, 2008

Adrian Mata was driving a truck carrying several other men when an argument began late Saturday night that led to a shooting, Plant City police say. ...more

December 27, 2007

Over the weekend I had a chat with an off-duty Disney worker. He has nothing to do with Disney public relations. He's just a grunt — a worker — so he didn't have to be guarded about what he had to say. Eventually our conversation got around to the use of Segways at the Disney parks. The Segway is produced by Segway Inc. of New Hampshire. It is a two-wheeled, self-balancing electric transporting device that was unveiled in December 2001. The name "Segway" is a homophone of "segue" (a smooth transition, literally Italian for "follows"). When it was first introduced it was the Segway HT for human transporter. It is now referred to as the Segway PT for personal transporter. Critics are less kind, referring to the thing as a motorized skateboard. ...more

November 24, 2007

GIBSONTON - Two men were arrested at U.S. 41 and Nundy Road after deputies used stop sticks to end a chase, the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office reported. ...more

October 11, 2007