The quick action of a Sebring Police officer led to him saving the life of a man who had tied a rope around his neck and jumped off a bridge just south of Golfview Road on Thursday night. ...more

November 14, 2009

Highlands County Sheriff's Deputy Jacob Riley says he was hit in the chest by a thrown cellphone Saturday night after being dispatched to a Decatur Street home to check on an argument. ...more

November 5, 2009

Every now and then a person in handcuffs gets riled up enough to kick out the windows of a deputy's cruiser. ...more

September 25, 2009

A man lingering outside his rundown home flashed a badge in hopes of discouraging a deputy from questioning him. ...more

September 17, 2009

Because of a reporter's error, a page A1 story in Thursday's edition, "Stupid, stupid mistake earns handcuffs," incorrectly stated that Gunnar Gundersen was taken to the Department of Juvenile Justice in Ocala. ...more

August 28, 2009

Four years after a girl, then 5, was handcuffed at a Pinellas County elementary school, her mother has filed a lawsuit against the Pinellas County School Board. ...more

April 1, 2009

A 20-month-old girl who sheriff's investigators reported sustained severe injuries Sunday at the hands of Avon Park police officer James Hilton Parker III, 32, of Sebring, was still in "very critical condition," according to Sheriff's Sgt. Darin Hood on Tuesday. ...more

March 31, 2009

The Orlando police chief's gun was stolen from a city-issued SUV parked outside her home. ...more

March 25, 2009

Saying he was "deeply sorry and ashamed," Bernard Madoff pleaded guilty today to pulling off perhaps the biggest swindle in Wall Street history and was immediately led off to jail in handcuffs to the applause of his seething victims in the courtroom. ...more

March 12, 2009

A teenager accused of brutally raping two Zephyrhills women in 2007 rejected a plea deal Wednesday that would have sent him to prison for 30 years. ...more

March 5, 2009