To gas prices, foreclosure rates and the cost of rice, add this rising economic indicator: the number of tips to the police from people hoping to collect reward money. ...more

May 18, 2008

LAKELAND - Divers are trying to remove a body found floating this morning near an alligator in a canal of Saddle Creek Lake, the sheriff's office reported. ...more

May 17, 2008

AVON PARK — Sheriff's investigators announced the arrest of the girlfriend of a suspect wanted in the shooting death of a Sebring man near the intersection of Garrett Road and Alabama Road in Lacey Hills on Jan. 7. Vackara Massaline, 31, of Sebring, was charged as an accessory after the fact on a charge of first-degree murder. A warrant was issued earlier in the month for the arrest of Donald Alfonso Henry, 36, of last known address: 606 Denise Ave., Sebring, in connection with the fatal shooting of Hugh Andrew Marks, 31, of Sebring. Henry remained at large Wednesday. ...more

January 17, 2008

AVON PARK — Sheriff's investigators announced the arrest of the girlfriend of a suspect wanted in the shooting death of a Sebring man near the intersection of Garrett Road and Alabama Road in Lacey Hills on Jan. 7. ...more

January 16, 2008

AVON PARK — Sheriff's investigators announced the arrest of the girlfriend of a suspect wanted in the shooting death of a Sebring man near the intersection of Garrett Road and Alabama Road in Lacey Hills on Jan. 7. Vackara Massaline, 31, of Sebring, was charged as an accessory after the fact on a charge of first-degree murder. ...more

January 16, 2008

Detectives hope offering a reward will help them catch a thief -- or thieves. A thief or group of thieves robbed 10 homes and tried to rob two more in the Country Chase subdivision of northwest Hillsborough County from Dec. 14 through 18, sheriff's detectives said. ...more

January 11, 2008

AVON PARK — Sheriff's deputies continued to search for answers Tuesday in the shooting death of a Sebring man near the intersection of Garrett Road and Alabama Road in Lacey Hills on Monday. ...more

January 8, 2008

SEBRING — The Highlands County Sheriff's Office is looking for two male suspects in the home invasion shooting and robbery Tuesday that hospitalized a Sun 'n Lake of Sebring man. ...more

January 8, 2008

The Amaryllis Garden Circle's urban garden, shaded by the Lee Roy Selmon Expressway, used to have a centerpiece. ...more

October 31, 2007

Polk County deputies are seeking information about the fatal shooting of one horse and the wounding of another in the Fort Meade area this weekend. ...more

October 30, 2007