Millionaire businessman Marcus Price is taking his personal grudge against the city's fire marshal to the Internet. ...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

Fire crews are on the scene of a mobile home fire in Clearwater. Thomas Karns, a 42-year-old man who was having trouble breathing, has been taken to Morton Plant Hospital. ...more

December 11, 2008

The investigation into the discovery of a body found in Hardee County is now being headed by the Highlands County Sheriff's Office. ...more

December 10, 2008

Arson was not suspected, although a pair of separate Saturday afternoon fires burned two homes on the same street, within hours of each other. ...more

December 1, 2008

SEBRING A family of five is safe, but their home was destroyed by fire Saturday afternoon. After the fire department arrived about 1:20 p.m., Sonja Vasquez drove up, crying, holding an infant. Firemen were still inside her home, using long-handled pikes to pull down the ceiling in the kitchen and living room. Sebring Fire Chief Brad Batz said the small, three-bedroom, wood-frame house at the corner or Rainbow and Warfield would likely be a total loss. Clearly, neighbors estimated, Vasquez, her husband and three children wouldn't be able to go inside for hours, maybe not until Sunday morning. The fire started in the kitchen area, but Batz didn't think cooking was the cause. ...more

November 29, 2008

The Tampa Fire Marshal has identified the woman injured in a house fire earlier today at 1915 E. 18th Ave. She is Francis Baker, 85, and she is still being treated at Tampa General Hospital for severe smoke inhalation. ...more

November 27, 2008

HOLMES BEACH - Within hours of a Sunday night fire that destroyed part of a motel owned by missing Holmes Beach resident Sabine Musil-Buehler, police questioned her boyfriend, William J. Cumber. ...more

November 18, 2008