The Highlands County Sheriff's Office is warning residents to be aware that there are still telephone scammers out there trying to separate them from their money. ...more

December 22, 2009

Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem has ordered a Florida business that sells magazine subscriptions to stop doing business in North Dakota. ...more

December 5, 2009

A Sebring woman was arrested Monday on a warrant alleging she took tens of thousands of dollars from an elderly woman's accounts while acting as her power of attorney. ...more

November 26, 2009

Official runaround Editor: It seems the more officials you contact the more one gets a runaround. The county sees fit to devalue property and then devalue the homestead exemption on top of that. Why? ...more

November 21, 2009

Joe Harris Sullivan was 13 in 1989 when he committed the crime that would put him away for life without possibility of parole: He raped an elderly woman. He had committed 17 other crimes in the two years before the brutal attack and his trial as an adult. ...more

November 16, 2009

Letters to the editor from Nov. 14 editions. ...more

November 14, 2009

A state Department of Children and Families employee is accused of stealing from an elderly woman with dementia whose case she was assigned to. ...more

November 12, 2009

WASHINGTON (AP) — A seemingly divided Supreme Court wrestled today with whether teenagers can be locked away forever for their crimes. ...more

November 9, 2009

Joe Sullivan was sent away for life for raping an elderly woman and judged incorrigible though he was only 13 at the time of the attack. ...more

November 8, 2009

Testimony continued Wednesday in the trial of a couple accused of defrauding an elderly woman out of her house and assets, although the alleged victim didn't take the stand as expected. ...more

September 17, 2009