Quite appropriately, the American Le Mans Series 100th race generated record-breaking performances both on and off the track. The 57th Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring presented by Fresh from Florida saw the fastest race ever recorded in event history. But it also featured exponential gains in other areas including Web site traffic, ticket sales and television ratings. ...more

March 27, 2009

A St. Petersburg police officer has been suspended for two days after she left a woman arrested for a traffic violation in a van for up to 45 minutes while the officer went to get lunch, according to police documents released this afternoon. ...more

February 19, 2009

When Dorothy Kennedy got her last traffic citation, a man named Eisenhower was in the White House and a man named Elvis was burning up the airwaves. ...more

January 22, 2009

Gail Manner doesn't understand why the driver who struck her son last summer with a car, killing him, only got a traffic ticket. Alan D. Danks Jr., 25, was cited for careless driving after his into Matthew Manner on June 20 in St. Petersburg. ...more

January 8, 2009

The Spring Hill Fire Rescue District is at it again: "Board Ignores Salary Freeze." This shows you how they operate. ...more

October 26, 2008

SEBRING — The Highlands County Sheriff's Office, along with other law enforcement agencies in the county and the state, will be warning and ticketing motorists who break the the Move Over Law. The week-long enforcement is scheduled for June 23 through June 29, Sheriff Susan Benton announced in a press release. The Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles is coordinating it, and Florida Highway Patrol troopers also will be involved. ...more

June 19, 2008

SEBRING — Public records and public meetings in Highlands County will soon be more open and more accessible than ever before. With an Internet connection and a few strokes on a keyboard, people can have instant access to virtually every piece of information the county has, plus verbatim accounts of county commission meetings. In about a month, new computer software acquired by the Highlands County Clerk of Courts Office – which handles both county government business and court records – will make more information available more quickly through the Internet. By going to the clerk's Web site, www.hcclerk.org, people will find verbatim accounts of every word spoken by every person during every minute of every Highlands County Board of Commissioners meeting. Those verbatim accounts, in fact, can be viewed on a computer in three ways: a video clip of the section of a meeting that you're interested in, a separate audio-only clip of that meeting segment, and/or an official transcript of that portion of the meeting's minutes. ...more

December 11, 2007

Referring to the dozens of traffic lights in Sebring-Avon Park U.S. 27 area and north on U.S. 27, the use of sensors to prevent the running of red lights will create other problems: mainly motorists like myself will either continually slam on brakes on yellow to avoid a possible ticket or alternately drive at 20 mph in order to stop within the three seconds allowed on yellow before the red light. Almost all U.S. 27 lights change to yellow when I approach within 140 yards of them and three seconds is not enough time to make it through the red. As a retiree on a fixed pension, I cannot just work overtime to pay any traffic fine. A traffic ticket to seniors means no food for weeks to pay any fines or the loss of the car, and so no means to get food in. My solution is to drive very slow, in order to stop within three seconds, but unfortunately I must drive in the fast outside lanes to avoid transport trucks (most of them cannot stop and do not stop for these red lights) from crashing into my car at the rear, and most trucks travel the inside lanes. ...more

December 2, 2007

This is not something most drivers want to hear: The process of giving out traffic tickets is getting more efficient. ...more

November 24, 2007

The entire trip was "lame," skateboarder Billy Nelson said Friday morning after bailing his buddies out of Orient Road Jail. ...more

November 4, 2007