A motorist killed Sunday while trying to check on the condition of an owl she had hit was an animal lover who "died doing what she loved doing," a neighbor said. ...more

June 9, 2008

To the readers and voters of Highlands County: There has been much attention from politicians and the good ole boys recently, regarding the 33 misplaced items within the sheriff's office. Well, my concern is for the 33 percent of our young veterans coming home, either dead or diseased from Iraq; the billions of dollars misspent, no sufficient armor, no safe drinking water, missing uranium, plutonium, weapons and computers. ...more

May 5, 2008

SEBRING — Mention the USO, and most people, well, those of a certain age anyway, think of Bob Hope. So does Clarence Neeley, 63, lately of Lake Placid. "I was in the Army at Long Binh," he recalled. "It was 1969. Just prior to the Christmas show." Acting Sgt. Neeley was driving a Jeep for a screw-up second lieutenant in public relations. They were going to USO headquarters. "So maybe that's what he was there for. To get literature. To make flyers for the USO show." "I was just awed to see that kind of setting during a war," Neeley remembered. "We were at a presidential palace in Saigon. "I talked to all the pretty women there, while he was making his story," Neeley said. That only took 4-5 hours, then Neeley returned to his regular job, installing and repairing communications cable. ...more

February 11, 2008

SEBRING — People couldn't help but smile when they looked at Tonya Peterson on Thursday. With bright-colored feathers sticking out of her back, a wattle hanging from her mouth and a comb that swayed as she nodded her head, Peterson was playing the part of the turkey at the annual NU-HOPE Thanksgiving meal. "I bet you've never been hugged by a turkey before," she said as she greeted one of the senior citizens gathered to enjoy the traditional lunch. Peterson said she wouldn't have picked out the costume herself, but being the rookie case manager for NU-HOPE, she didn't have a choice. ...more

November 17, 2007

O.J. Simpson and several other men, including two who had guns, broke into a hotel room and stole hundreds of pieces of memorabilia, a sports dealer testified Thursday at the start of the hearing that will determine whether the former football star will have to go through another celebrated trial. ...more

November 9, 2007

A fugitive sex offender wanted in two states was charged Saturday with strangling a woman and leaving her body under a bed at a Times Square hotel. ...more

September 2, 2007