Sending holiday cards featuring pictures of the city's historical buildings would be a great way to promote the hometown bank, its president figured. ...more

November 12, 2007

SEBRING — A Sebring woman pleaded guilty Wednesday to charges of drug trafficking and forgery for using her employment at a local doctor's office to fax fake prescription papers to local Walgreens to obtain prescription medication. Ira Lorena Bareno, 28, of 1629 Lagrange Ave., entered a no-contest plea to charges that she obtained the drug Vicoprofen illegally. Bareno, who is currently out on bond, has a Dec. 17 sentencing date set before Judge Peter Estrada in the Highlands County Courthouse. ...more

November 2, 2007

Feeling like playing hooky, but nervous about getting caught? The Excused Absence Network has got your back. ...more

October 28, 2007

SEBRING — By the time Gary Christopher Ingmire Jr. gets out of prison, his victim will be 94 years old and the con artist will owe her some serious money. Judge Peter Estrada sentenced Ingmire, 27, of Sebring, to 15 years in prison Thursday morning at the Highlands County Courthouse, on a count of scheming to defraud more than $50,000, for borrowing money from a 79-year-old Sebring woman over a two-and-a-half-year period. "A crime against an elderly person is not only a crime against the person," said Estrada as he was rendering Ingmire's sentence. "It's a crime against society." ...more

October 26, 2007

SEBRING — Michael Anthony Rosales, of Zolfo Springs, was sentenced Monday morning to 10 years in prison for charges of fraud, grand theft and forgery for possessing bogus checks and trying to cash them at local businesses last fall. ...more

October 23, 2007

SEBRING — How do you adapt to technology while maintaining privacy? ...more

October 14, 2007

A city review board on Wednesday approved a plan for a three-building office park on Seventh Street at a corner of Howard Avenue. ...more

October 11, 2007

Thomas Paul Ludlum, 42, of Lake Placid, entered a guilty plea Wednesday afternoon in the Highlands County Courthouse to counts of first-degree grand theft and the burglary of a structure for his 2006 New Year's Eve theft of a Highlands Independent Bank ATM. ...more

October 11, 2007

This year's Plankfest, Pasco County's homegrown rock festival, will help raise money for kids trying to get a skateboard park built in Dade City. ...more

October 7, 2007