Police on Tuesday charged a man with the murder in the stabbing death of a University of Connecticut football player outside a school-sanctioned dance, but his defense attorney says he was just trying to break up a fight. ...more

October 28, 2009

A Hardee County grand jury indicted two Sebring men for the November 2008 murder of a Jamaican man. ...more

July 23, 2009

Indonesian officials struggled Saturday to identify the two suicide bombers behind the deadly attacks Friday at two American hotels in Jakarta, even as they said more clearly that the men appeared to have had ties to a Malaysian Islamic extremist. ...more

July 19, 2009

The Highlands County Sheriff's Office is continuing an active investigation into the discovery of a body inside a burned vehicle Nov. 29 in Hardee County. ...more

January 8, 2009

The Highlands County Sheriff's Office is continuing an active investigation into the discovery of a body inside a burned vehicle Nov. 29 in Hardee County. ...more

January 7, 2009

Detectives with the Highlands County Sheriff's Office have confirmed the identity of a victim found inside a burned vehicle Nov. 29 in Hardee County. ...more

December 20, 2008

Detectives with the Highlands County Sheriff's Office have confirmed the identity of a victim found inside a burned vehicle Nov. 29 in Hardee County. The victim's name is Dwight Clyde Williams, 46, a citizen of Jamaica. He had been living in Highlands County under the alias Malik Addullah Muhammad at the time of his death, according to a press release. The name was withheld until his identity could be identified. ...more

December 19, 2008

Gus Frerotte stabilized Minnesota's wobbly passing attack for at least one week, after Antoine Winfield and the rest of defense propped it up once again. ...more

September 22, 2008

The theft of $17,360 in gold jewelry from a mall kiosk in March led authorities to traffic court Thursday, where they arrested Chad Daniel Keck, 20. ...more

July 19, 2008

The assistant manager at the jewelry kiosk turned her back for a moment to struggle with a display case lock, but that's all it took for a tray of valuables to disappear. Amber Sharp was showing a tray of mostly gold necklaces to a couple March 6 at the Piercing Pagoda in Gulf View Square mall, but they decided not to buy anything, a Pasco County Sheriff's Office report states. Meanwhile, a teenager and a young man were walking around the kiosk, which made Sharp nervous because the boy was leaning over the counter "looking around at everything but the jewelry," the report states. Sharp nervously tried to put away the tray, briefly leaving it next to the cash register while she tried to unlock the display case. When she went to grab the tray, it was gone, and so was everyone who had been near the kiosk. On Thursday, a sheriff's detective tracked down suspect Chad Daniel Keck, 20, at traffic court in New Port Richey and arrested him on charges of grand theft and violation of the pawn brokers act. He was being held Friday at the Land O' Lakes Jail, with bail set at $10,000. ...more

July 18, 2008