The following people were booked Tuesday, Dec. 1 into the Highlands County Jail: ...more

December 3, 2009

Alonzo Robertson scored a game-high 19 points to lead the Avon Park boys basketball team to a 68-50 district win over Frostproof on Tuesday night in the Red Devils gym. ...more

December 3, 2009

This year, Highlands County will improve its jail and build new streets. ...more

December 3, 2009

A real Christmas tree - it was a new sight and smell for 4 1/2- month-old Taryn as she accompanied her grandparents Monday on their annual venture to find just the right tree to centerpiece their holiday decorating. ...more

December 1, 2009

It's interesting how Mark and Karen Bartlett got separately from Michigan and Virginia to the No Frills Grill, by way of the Florida Keys. ...more

November 30, 2009

Our current system, which allows an elite few to amass unimaginable wealth by exploiting the sickness and suffering of millions of people, is immoral, unconscionable and un-American. Private enterprise should never be in control of people's life and death decisions. ...more

November 30, 2009

It is perhaps a mixed message or a contradiction for health care workers who willfully do something that is likely to endanger their health such as smoking. ...more

November 29, 2009

A Lake Placid man allegedly struck his 69-year-old mother-in-law several times and locked all her clothes, a laptop and phone wires in his bedroom after a Monday morning argument. ...more

November 28, 2009

Patients who use the Highlands County Health Department's Sebring clinic will have to go to its clinics in Avon Park or Lake Placid until remodeling work at the Sebring location is complete in about a month's time. ...more

November 27, 2009

Four years ago - the height of the real estate boom - only a few homes were priced under $100,000. ...more

November 27, 2009