Reading the letter from Betty Prescott in the Nov. 4 edition of the Highlands Today only increased my feeling of gloom and despair about the way our country is speedily heading down the drain. I had heard the news about no Social Security increase for 2010. In the very next story, it was reported that Brother Obama has plans to send $7.5 billion in aid to Pakistan. ...more

November 23, 2009

A Sebring man remained in the Highlands County Jail Wednesday under no bond following his arrest for allegedly assaulting his brother's girlfriend and snatching her cell phone. ...more

November 19, 2009

Thank you, Tribune, for your Wednesday article on Mallory Code ("Code's fight inspired scores," front page, Nov. 11). ...more

November 14, 2009

As soon as I wrote the words I knew what would happen. I jinxed myself. Two weeks ago I wrote: "The last speeding ticket I got was on my 22nd birthday. And like I said, I don't have the greatest luck." ...more

November 11, 2009

Mark Yaffe's opulent mansion in Avila always has been the most sensational aspect of National Gold Exchange's bankruptcy case. ...more

November 11, 2009

A local law enforcement officer offered a Lake Placid resident a ride home late Friday night but ended up arresting him for allegedly possessing cocaine. ...more

November 3, 2009

Cole Likens, 2, left, and his brother Cason, 4, joined Isabel Cuevas, 5. ...more

October 27, 2009

A fight over free speech turned into fisticuffs at a city council meeting that left the brother of one of the council members arrested. ...more

October 16, 2009

Five teenagers have been charged after authorities say they doused a 15-year-old with rubbing alcohol and set him on fire because he stopped someone from stealing his father's bicycle a day earlier. ...more

October 13, 2009

Debra Tate, the sister of Roman Polanski's second wife, actress Sharon Tate, says Polanski is brilliant and a "good guy" and she doesn't think her former brother-in-law can get a fair trial in the United States. ...more

September 30, 2009