Don't expect to see Barry Bonds showing up in a pennant race. The all-time home run leader has not received a single offer, agent Jeff Borris said Monday. He dismissed recent reports of interest from Arizona, Boston and the New York Mets. ...more

July 15, 2008

A former Alabama state trooper is scheduled to go on trial in October for a slaying that occurred on darkened streets during a historic civil rights demonstration in Marion in 1965. ...more

July 11, 2008

LAKE PLACID — Three men indicted by a grand jury on first-degree murder and attempted first-degree murder charges remained in Highlands County Jail on Tuesday, in connection with the murder and attempted murder of two Lake Placid men. News of the Monday indictments of Andrew John Kalinowski, 21, of 917 Lake June Road, Lake Placid, and Shane Ryan Fannin, 21, of 12075 Payne Road, Sebring, came first Tuesday. ...more

July 2, 2008

A French daredevil in trouble for scaling a skyscraper to press for action on global warming should be honored instead of prosecuted, his lawyer said Wednesday. ...more

June 12, 2008

An illegal immigrant from Mexico has been indicted in the fatal shooting of 51-year-old Diane Yeager-Lombard, whose body was found May 4 on her front porch in Land O' Lakes, according to the sheriff's office. ...more

May 24, 2008

Mildred Loving died last Friday, very quietly and with little fanfare. It should not have been that way, but it was symbolic of the way she lived. ...more

May 11, 2008

A Texas woman who caused her lover's shooting death by falsely crying rape was convicted Friday of involuntary manslaughter. ...more

May 3, 2008

A Winter Haven father was sentenced Thursday to 10 years in prison in the death of his 10-week-old son, who suffocated last year when the man tried to stop him from crying by stuffing his mouth with a washcloth. ...more

April 19, 2008

A grand jury in Sarasota County has indicted Michael Lee King on a first-degree murder charge in the kidnapping and killing of Denise Amber Lee. Prosecutors intend to seek the death penalty. King is suspected in the kidnapping and killing of Denise Amber Lee, the 21-year-old daughter of a veteran sheriff's lieutenant. ...more

February 7, 2008

SEBRING — A Highlands County grand jury formally indicted three suspects on murder charges Tuesday morning in connection to the November 2007 shooting of Samuel Tiller. ...more

February 5, 2008