"How many of you are crackers?" Suzanne Park asked. More than 100 students were waiting for the riders coming to Cracker Trail Elementary.
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City Administrative Services Director Maria Sutherland disputes former finance director Renee` Green's lawsuit that claims Sutherland was defrauding the county.
The dogfighting cases against Corey Lee Love, Quandra Nicole Brown-Sims and Ernest Reed have been pushed back to next month.
His hands and feet shackled and wearing a black and white inmate uniform, Eric Smallridge told Lake Placid High School students, "This is something I will live with forever."
After months of waiting, Emma the potbellied pig is now a pet after the Sebring City Council approved the matter by a 3-2 vote Tuesday night. It also set a limit of no more than two potbellied pigs per household.
Head'em up.
The school district's return to the regional science fair competition netted an educational experience for all the students who participated, and an invitation for three to the state competition.
Somebody call ABC, the county commissioners have changed the liquor laws.
The search for an executive director for the Sebring Community Redevelopment Agency continued Tuesday after the search committee decided last Thursday to re-advertise the position.
Federal workers were $15 billion losers as Congress looked for ways to pay for parts of the just-passed legislation to extend the payroll tax cut and federal unemployment benefits through the end of the year.
What is it like for a modern-day bear to trek 1,000 miles in 100 days through ranches, scrub land and swamps, past homes and busy highways?
A lawsuit filed Tuesday against the City of Avon Park claims there was no "just cause" reason for City Manager Julian Deleon to terminate Renee Green after she served as the city's finance director for more than 10 years.
State and local firefighters were fighting a brush fire Tuesday morning in the neighborhood of Pompino Drive at Bream Avenue, which broke out the night before.
A Highlands County sheriff's deputy who responded to rescue two people trapped in a Jan. 23 apartment fire in Sebring received a Valor Award from Sheriff Susan Benton.
For the many Medicaid dental patients the Highlands County Health Department sees in a year, this June will bring the first taste of HMOs.
The fate of Emma the potbellied pig is back in the hands of the Sebring City Council today, along with other animal and livestock issues, when it considers amendments to its existing ordinance regulating animals within city limits.
When students in three grade levels take the Writing Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test next week, school districts will be following new security measures required by the state.
A bicyclist was up and walking around early Monday afternoon after he reportedly may have been struck by a black Ford van in eastern Lake Placid.
An Avon Park man was seriously injured late Sunday night while walking on State Road 64 East, near East Arbuckle Road.
Retired Air Force Maj. Nancy Koch-Castillo came to Highlands County six months ago to become the newest teacher in Sebring High School's Air Force Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps or ROTC program.
Xavier Alvarez was in good company when he stood up at a public meeting and called himself a wounded war veteran who had received the top military award, the Medal of Honor.
If the U.S. Postal Service ends Saturday delivery, would the public be upset? Probably not, if it helps the local post office survive. If stamps go up a little more, would the public care? They are probably resigned to it by now.
U.S. Food and Drug Administration officials plan to investigate whether inhalable caffeine sold in lipstick-sized canisters is safe for consumers and if its manufacturer was right to brand it as a dietary supplement.
Taking the stage wearing jeans, an untucked shirt, baseball cap worn backward and hoisting a red Solo cup, Josh Thompson left no doubt he was at the Highlands County Fair Saturday to deliver a country music party and concert.
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