AVON PARK — Police are looking for anyone with information on four men Thursday in connection with the robbery of a 27-year-old Avon Park man Saturday night behind the Village Lounge at 205 W. Main St. The victim was not a customer at the bar, but was cutting through the property to take a shortcut home when four men approached him and threatened him with a short bat. ...more

December 27, 2007

This country's new president reacted furiously Thursday to accusations by U.S. prosecutors that an intercepted suitcase full of cash from Venezuela was meant to finance her election campaign, calling the charge "garbage in international politics." ...more

December 14, 2007

BRADENTON - Two teenagers were arrested late Friday in connection with a shooting that injured an 18-year-old Bradenton man. ...more

December 9, 2007

AVON PARK — Four men remained in Highlands County Jail in lieu of $101,500 bail each Wednesday, after they were arrested Tuesday morning in a raid on 205 Ballard Road, in Avon Park. ...more

December 6, 2007

AVON PARK — It was about 8:30 a.m. Tuesday, when members of the sheriff's drug task force descended upon a house at 205 Ballard Road, arresting four men on felony marijuana charges. This is the 58th bust of a growhouse since November 2006. Sheriff's Lt. Randy LaBelle reported, the house which is near the Highlands County border on State Road 64 West, was about 95 percent restored and while evidence of a growhouse operation remained, it was nearly dismantled. LaBelle said it appeared the four men, whose names have not yet been released, were at the house when sheriff's detectives Dewayne Proctor and Ernie Gelinas along with task force officer Dan Schneider with the Avon Park Police Department knocked at the door to investigate. ...more

December 5, 2007

The Pasco County Sheriff's Office has charged a 27-year old man with arson and burglary after a fire at a vacant mobile home Friday evening. ...more

November 24, 2007

BRADENTON - The wife of a Manatee County sheriff's deputy was given a ride home from a DUI checkpoint last month even though a deputy smelled alcohol, according to a report released Thursday. ...more

November 9, 2007

Hillsborough County deputies are investigating a one-car rollover crash that sent four men to the hospital. ...more

November 1, 2007

In a rare rebuke, a bar association has criticized a judge for refusing to uphold sexual assault charges against a man accused of letting friends rape a prostitute he had hired. The judge said she considered the case 'theft of services.' ...more

November 1, 2007

TAMPA - Sheriff's office investigators are looking for four men who broke into an apartment late Monday and pistol-whipped two men before stealing a laptop computer and cell phone. ...more

October 9, 2007