PLANT CITY A local angler won the recent Wal-Mart Bass Fishing League Gator Division tournament on the Kissimmee River. Jeremy Smith's Jan. 24 victory earned him $6,875 and placed him one step closer to qualifying for October's regional championship in Georgia and a chance to win a new Ranger boat and Chevrolet truck. ...more

February 6, 2009

A woman is accused of leaving her 6-month-old unattended in a running truck while getting Mexican fast food, deputies said. ...more

January 24, 2009

A local man was out of jail Tuesday on a $1,500 bond following his Sunday arrest on drug charges. ...more

January 7, 2009

A 2-year-old girl was seriously hurt Wednesday when she fell out of the bed of a pickup truck her father was driving and the vehicle backed into her, the Florida Highway Patrol said. ...more

November 12, 2008

Authorities say three adults and five children were injured in a two-vehicle crash on a bridge. ...more

November 2, 2008

A 21-year-old Lake Wales man died Sunday morning after losing control of his pickup in Polk County. ...more

October 13, 2008

A Sebring man with a commercial mowing business was free on $1,000 bail Monday, after he was booked on a warrant in connection with dumping yard debris on Sept. 7, 2007, on a county right of way, instead of hauling it to the dump. ...more

August 19, 2008

SAN ANTONIO - A fatal crash Sunday afternoon involving two cars shut down for several hours the southbound lanes of Interstate 75 near the border of Pasco and Hernando counties, the Florida Highway Patrol said. ...more

June 29, 2008

SEBRING — Photographs from an automated teller machine were used to identify a Sebring man and connect him to 10 car burglaries in the Sun 'n Lake of Sebring subdivision in September. Thomas Bernard Nelson, 18, of 5109 Sturgeon Ave., Sebring, was booked Thursday on charges of two counts of credit card thefts, five counts of grand theft $300 or more but less than $5,000, fraudulent use of a credit card more than two times in six months, 10 counts of burglary of a structure or conveyance while unarmed and three counts of petty theft. Sheriff's investigators prepared seven separate arrest reports listing the instances of car-fishing-type vehicle burglaries, they say, were committed between Sept. 19 and Sept. 20. ...more

February 11, 2008

Sometimes it pays to wear a bicycle helmet even if one is not riding a bicycle. ...more

January 31, 2008