A family of six was displaced Wednesday night when their double-wide mobile home at 5810 State Road 66, west of Payne Road, in Sebring, was destroyed by a fire. ...more

July 31, 2008

A Sebring couple was free Tuesday after their arrest on warrants Saturday, after sheriff's investigators say the woman took a Caterpillar 725 dump truck for a night-time joy ride on July 3 into July 4 around the Saddle Ridge construction site. ...more

July 23, 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

SEBRING — Detectives with the Highlands County Sheriff's Office have arrested the driver supposedly involved in the June 7 shooting death of a Lake Placid man and the shooting injury of a second man. Shane Ryan Fannin, 21, of 12075 Payne Road, Sebring, was arrested on charges Wednesday in connection with the murder of Walter Enrique Vilchez and attempted murder of Jose Franklin Escalante, at 242 Phoenix Ave., in Lake Placid. Fannin was charged with first-degree murder and attempted first-degree murder, and was being held without bond. ...more

June 18, 2008

DADE CITY Florida Highway Patrol troopers are investigating an early morning fatality in a single-car crash on U.S. 301 at Payne Road. A man was driving his 1992 Oldsmobile sedan south on U.S. 301 in the outside lane about 2:10 a.m. and ran off the road and onto the west shoulder, according to a patrol report. ...more

September 25, 2007