Next Saturday, the spirits of Roaring 20s Model Ts, flappers and the Charleston will reincarnate to bless an event featuring a gallery of photographs of children waiting for adoption. ...more

February 14, 2009

Owner Dan Farrell and his crew at Lenny's Restaurant are in a bit of a pickle. ...more

October 17, 2008

An Avon Park man remained in Highlands County Jail in lieu of $91,000 bond Thursday, arrested after he was arrested by agents of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and charged with having child porn on his computer. ...more

July 11, 2008

TAMPA – A Port Richey pain doctor repeatedly visited the Internet to view and download photographs of children being sexually abused by adults, a federal prosecutor told a jury today. ...more

July 8, 2008

Lewd photographs of children were disappearing from adult bookstores. Child porn magazines in plain brown envelopes were no longer reaching customers through the mail. It was the early 1990s, and experts thought federal law enforcement efforts were ending child pornography. ...more

December 16, 2007

SEBRING — A Sebring man remained in Highlands County Jail on a no-bond hold, after reportedly molesting a 4-year-old child who he baby sat for the last year. Kendrick Matthew Clarke, 20, of 1030 E.O. Douglas Ave., was charged with sexual assault by a person older than 18 years old on a person less than 12 years of age (a capital felony) and child abuse, cruelty toward a child without great harm (a third-degree felony). On Sept. 12, the child's mother called the sheriff's office explaining that Clarke, an acquaintance, periodically took care of her child. ...more

October 2, 2007