The following people were booked Wednesday, Feb. 4 into the Highlands County Jail: ...more

February 7, 2009

A woman who was looking at her cell phone while driving drifted across traffic and crashed into another car, seriously injuring the driver, the Florida Highway Patrol reported. ...more

September 27, 2008

SEBRING — Church services are held on Fridays for some of the Highlands County Detention Facility inmates, and Joe Valentin is one of their pastors. The Southern Baptist minister comes to the jail once a week, giving sermons that rarely go beyond 15 minutes but spread a message of hope and faith to those that have "all the time in the world" to consider it, he said. ...more

May 12, 2008

Thinking his home was being invaded by a desperate escapee from Citrus County Jail, a 63-year-old Beverly Hills man squeezed off a shot from his .38 Special early Sunday morning at a bushy haired figure next to his backyard pool. ...more

January 17, 2008

LECANTO – An escaped convict has been caught in Lecanto, Citrus County Sheriff Jeffrey Dawsy confirmed about 9:45 a.m. today. ...more

January 14, 2008

An escaped prisoner attacked a Lecanto homeowner with a hammer this morning, according to the Citrus County Sheriff's Office. ...more

January 13, 2008

TAMPA - Deputies with the Citrus County Sheriff's Office are searching for a man who escaped from a Lecanto detention facility Friday afternoon. ...more

January 11, 2008

It took an international effort, but detectives have made an arrest in the slaying of an Orlando man whose body was dumped in Inverness. ...more

November 29, 2007

A budding online friendship between a Citrus Springs man and a St. Petersburg man turned sinister when one invited the other to help him kill someone and then have sex with the body, Citrus County sheriff's officials said. ...more

October 28, 2007

A budding online friendship between a Citrus Springs man and a St. Petersburg man turned sinister when one invited the other to help him kill someone and then have sex with the body, Citrus County sheriff's officials said. Sheriff's deputies on Friday arrested Kevin Wade Daley, 50, of Citrus Springs, charging him with criminal solicitation to commit first-degree murder. They also searched his home located at 2377 W. Swanson Dr. ...more

October 27, 2007