What exactly Alicia Keys is now free from isn't clear, despite the portentousness of the album's title and its spoken intro. What her freedom has allowed her to do, presumably, is to securely strap on the pop straitjacket she wore a bit more loosely on 2007's "As I Am." ...more

December 17, 2009

They found the dogs locked in cages inside a cramped apartment, nearly starved to death. ...more

November 25, 2009

Local teenager Shawnee Lester, 17, has been selected to represent Florida at the 2009 Miss American Teen Pageant. ...more

October 15, 2009

Singer-songwriter Jackson Browne will perform at Ruth Eckerd Hall on Nov. 20, according to a press release from the venue. ...more

September 14, 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

Billy Mays' cocaine use contributed to the cause of his death, according to an autopsy report released today. ...more

August 7, 2009

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

July 23, 2009

The city of Sebring was again disrupted by the arrival of suspicious envelopes, and the target this time was the Highlands County Sheriff's Office. Just after 2 p.m. Tuesday, two envelopes containing a suspicious white powder arrived at the sheriff's office in the mail, according to Lisa Burley, the sheriff's chief of staff. Sebring woman arrested for suspicious powder incident ...more

July 22, 2009

Mike Alstott, the former bruising Buccaneer running back, will once again serve as the honorary guest of Gulfside Regional Hospice's annual Hike for Hospice charity event for the third consecutive year. ...more

July 8, 2009

The Greater Sebring Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors has hired Greg Harris of Sebring as interim president. ...more

July 7, 2009