SEBRING — One of Highlands County's most important meetings will be held at 9 a.m. Tuesday in the Highlands County Government Center. But here's the problem: it's about urban services boundaries and comprehensive plan amendments and neighborhood commercial nodes. If you're bored and already moving to the next story, stop. Read a little further. Remember Hometown Democracy, where the people want to make decisions about whether a strip mall is located in their back yards, or whether another used car lot replaces an orange grove? ...more

December 8, 2007

It soon will be time to slow down through the streets of Original Carrollwood. ...more

December 6, 2007

Barbara Lumsden Lovelace agrees with the idea of honoring the fallen sheriff's sergeant who was shot on Lumsden Road. ...more

December 4, 2007

On Wednesday, the county plans to rename the portion of Lumsden road between south Kings Avenue and south Parsons Road in Sgt. Ron Harrison's memory. County Commissioners are planning to designate it Sgt. Harrison Memorial Highway. ...more

December 2, 2007

Oscar Ray Bolin again was sentenced to death Friday. It was the eighth time he has received the ultimate penalty. ...more

December 1, 2007

TAMPA - Oscar Ray Bolin, again, has been sentenced to death. ...more

November 30, 2007

When 22-year-old Solymarie Roman was found slain, her body burned, in a northeast Polk County orange grove, suspicion quickly focused on her boyfriend, Mourad Balzourt. ...more

November 30, 2007

POINCIANA - When 22-year-old Solymarie Roman was found slain her body burned in a northeast Polk County orange grove, suspicion quickly focused on her boyfriend, Mourad Balzourt. ...more

November 29, 2007

The body of a man found shot to death Monday in an orange grove in Frostproof has been identified as 19-year-old Fernando Trejo of Banks Road, the Polk County Sheriff's Office reported. ...more

November 27, 2007

Vernon Lambeth had fulfilled a dream. After years of work as an electrician in California, Lambeth, 60, saved enough money to buy a house and orange grove on Lake Clinch in Frostproof, his childhood home. Lambeth moved to Frostproof with his wife and three children about two years ago. ...more

November 22, 2007