An Okeechobee man remained in jail Tuesday on a $50,000 bond after allegedly secretly taking a victim from her residence without her legal guardian's consent. ...more

February 25, 2009

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February 5, 2009

If your stock portfolio has been hit hard because you were too heavily invested in the financial sector, sob. ...more

September 28, 2008

David Broadhurst and Lisa Lauver were in a room at La Quinta Inns & Suites on North 30th Street on Tuesday night when they heard a knock on the door about 9:30, police said. ...more

September 10, 2008

I'm always amazed when I see small children swimming confidently in deep water. These days that's not unusual because swim lessons are considered one of the basics of children's activities. ...more

June 8, 2008

Playing in his first Players Championship since 2002, Greg Kraft made the 36-hole cut right on the 3-over number. ...more

May 11, 2008

LAKE PLACID — Minnie Jones saw Highway Park evolve over the 57 years of her life. "It was small ... not rough, just a small community where everybody raised your kids," Jones said of the Highway Park of her childhood. It was segregated and not prosperous, but otherwise calm and close-knit. She even remembered neighbors spanking her kids if they acted up, and she did the same to theirs. She then remembered the next generation. "The parents say, 'don't holler at my kids.'" The generation after that? "You're scared of the kids now." That fear isn't shared by everyone living there, but the crime some of them brought to the small neighborhood south of Lake Placid provoked community leaders and the Highlands County Sheriff's Office to turn the neighborhood around. By many accounts, the violence has ebbed over the past year since sheriff deputies picked up their patrols in the neighborhood. Residents remain divided, however, over the extent of the progress and what else needs to be done to both shed the neighborhood's notoriety and bring its youth up. ...more

January 13, 2008