The ox and lamb won't keep time, but Mary will arrive by donkey, and sheep and a llama will be on hand to bear witness as Atonement Lutheran Church lifts the curtain on its live nativity scene. ...more

December 10, 2008

Open government in Highlands County has become more open. Every county commission meeting now can be viewed not only on cable television, but also streaming live on the Highlands County Clerk of Court's Web site, www.hcclerk.org. ...more

November 25, 2008

For more than 30 years, Highlands County has had a policy of excess or unneeded fill material collected by the Road and Bridge Department being hauled to and dumped on private property with the written consent of the owners, according to two former top county officials. ...more

November 1, 2008

Jazmine Jamison has a purple streak in her hair. She has varied the shade with every color of the rainbow, but for the start of school she thought she would try purple. ...more

August 20, 2008

WEST SHORE - Jazmine Jamison has a purple streak in her hair. She has varied the shade with every color of the rainbow, but for the start of school she thought she would try purple. ...more

August 13, 2008

Authorities say a man tried to cover up a drunken driving crash by parking his Jeep and reporting it stolen. ...more

May 7, 2008

SEBRING — Public records and public meetings in Highlands County will soon be more open and more accessible than ever before. With an Internet connection and a few strokes on a keyboard, people can have instant access to virtually every piece of information the county has, plus verbatim accounts of county commission meetings. In about a month, new computer software acquired by the Highlands County Clerk of Courts Office – which handles both county government business and court records – will make more information available more quickly through the Internet. By going to the clerk's Web site, www.hcclerk.org, people will find verbatim accounts of every word spoken by every person during every minute of every Highlands County Board of Commissioners meeting. Those verbatim accounts, in fact, can be viewed on a computer in three ways: a video clip of the section of a meeting that you're interested in, a separate audio-only clip of that meeting segment, and/or an official transcript of that portion of the meeting's minutes. ...more

December 11, 2007

SEBRING — On Nov. 14, Bob Jamison became aware that the Local Government Investment Pool might be in jeopardy. ...more

December 9, 2007

The Southeastern Conference fined Kentucky $50,000 on Monday for failing to prevent fans from rushing the field after the Wildcats' triple-overtime victory against top-ranked LSU. ...more

October 16, 2007

LARGO - Two women were arrested Wednesday on animal cruelty charges after they left a Dachshund and a Pomeranian outdoors in a small crate without any water for more than two hours. The Dachshund died in the crate, said Lt. Mike Loux, of the Largo Police Department. ...more

September 27, 2007