"Survivor" winner Richard Hatch has been released from a Massachusetts jail after completing a sentence for evading taxes on the $1 million he won during the CBS reality show's first season. ...more

October 16, 2009

LAND O' LAKES - If the charges stick, marijuana grow houses have gone upscale. Pasco County Sheriff's Office vice and narcotics detectives raided four such houses Tuesday and say it is the first time they have discovered grow houses in homes of this caliber. ...more

October 14, 2009

An 86-year-old man was given a careless driving ticket this morning after he crashed into a Dunedin restaurant. ...more

October 12, 2009

A vehicle chase into Sebring Monday afternoon ended with a man's arrest on drug trafficking and ammunition charges. ...more

September 23, 2009

A man was injured Sunday after a shooting lesson between a father and his two children backfired. ...more

September 22, 2009

One Highlands County man's Labor Day weekend was memorable for all the wrong reasons after being the victim of armed robbery on Sunday. ...more

September 9, 2009

It seems to me that Barbara Stewart and Jeff Carlson are still vindictive and vengeful in spirit against the Highlands County Sheriff and her department. Reading in the paper today of the vote they cast, I just wonder if they did they get a raise? Did they refuse it or give it to a needy cause? ...more

September 6, 2009

The Highlands County Sheriff's Office is asking the public's help in identifying a credit card fraud suspect in connection with an incident that occurred July 28, according to a sheriff's office press release. ...more

August 19, 2009

Erwin Acosta, 48, of Sebring, was charged Saturday with battery on a person 65 years of age or older after allegedly spraying his roommate in the face and eyes with Raid bug spray. ...more

August 19, 2009

Local law enforcement is still searching for a woman who was reported missing over two weeks ago. ...more

August 18, 2009