Investigators identified the victim of a home invasion this morning as 55-year-old Paul William Proto. Police responded to a report of a home invasion at 9405 N. 10th St. shortly after midnight today. After the shooting, a suspect took off in the victim's car, a 1996 white Cadillac Seville, police said. ...more

September 23, 2009

Police are investigating after three bodies were found inside their Miami home. ...more

April 5, 2009

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December 14, 2008

A possible suspect in a Shady Hills shooting that left one man dead Thursday morning was treated at Spring Hill Regional Hospital before being airlifted to a Tampa-area facility, a sheriff's spokesman said. ...more

October 17, 2008

Friends and relatives gathered just beyond the crime scene tape Thursday morning to comfort one another and try to come up with a reason for the fatal shooting of Cory Lynn Evans. ...more

October 17, 2008

Just down the road from the mobile home where the body of a 21-year-old still lay late Thursday morning, more than a dozen relatives and friends gathered beyond the yellow crime scene tape waiting for answers, looking for comfort and processing what had happened. ...more

October 17, 2008

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September 28, 2008

Police arrested an Avon Park man and charged him as a suspect in the attempted murder of his brother. ...more

August 21, 2008

AVON PARK — The girlfriend of a suspect in the shooting death of a Sebring man reportedly helped her boyfriend get away and elude capture, according to a Highlands County sheriff's press release. ...more

January 17, 2008