Marijuana cultivators in Southwest Florida know that numbers are a very important component to their business plan. ...more

October 23, 2007

A city traffic technician was arrested Monday in what police said was his third DUI offense. He was driving a city vehicle, an arrest report said. ...more

October 23, 2007

TAMPA - A city traffic technician was arrested last night in what police said was his third DUI offense. He was driving a city vehicle, according to an arrest report. Tampa police said Kenan Glenn Brown, 43, was driving north on MacDill Avenue and making a right turn to go east on Kennedy Boulevard when he was stopped. ...more

October 23, 2007

In July 2002, a new Florida law made lying about visiting children in state care a third-degree felony punishable by up to five years in prison. ...more

October 21, 2007

VALRICO - Deputies have charged a Valrico man who was accused of picking up his 12-year-old son by the hair and hitting him repeatedly on the head and face. ...more

October 19, 2007

SEBRING — A Sebring woman was free from the Highlands County Jail on Monday on $1,000 bail after she was arrested on a third-degree felony child neglect charge. Sheriff's investigators claim she abandoned a 2-year-old girl with Downs Syndrome into the care of a local woman for more than a month. ...more

October 3, 2007

SEBRING — A Sebring man remained in Highlands County Jail on a no-bond hold, after reportedly molesting a 4-year-old child who he baby sat for the last year. Kendrick Matthew Clarke, 20, of 1030 E.O. Douglas Ave., was charged with sexual assault by a person older than 18 years old on a person less than 12 years of age (a capital felony) and child abuse, cruelty toward a child without great harm (a third-degree felony). On Sept. 12, the child's mother called the sheriff's office explaining that Clarke, an acquaintance, periodically took care of her child. ...more

October 2, 2007

SEBRING — Taking money out of an automated teller machine (ATM) is a convenience many people take advantage of these days, but as a 62-year-old Sebring woman learned Wednesday evening, staying alert is important. ...more

September 27, 2007

David Lee Onstott, who is awaiting trial on charges he killed a 13-year-old Ruskin girl, pleaded guilty Thursday to a felony charge of failing to register as a sex offender, prosecutors said. ...more

September 21, 2007

SPRING HILL - A Spring Hill woman forged her credentials to get extra pay as a licensed practical nurse at Deltona Elementary School, authorities say. ...more

September 20, 2007