Sheriff deputies are looking for help identifying a man who has been exposing himself to clerks at a Circle K store. ...more

April 16, 2009

Today's hard economy may drive some people to drink. But in an action Tuesday, county commissioners are banking that people's taste for alcohol may actually stimulate the flow of money around here. ...more

March 25, 2009

I appreciate and agree with Chief Williams' comments (Oct 20) concerning day-to-day cooperation between the sheriff's office and the Lake Placid police. ...more

October 28, 2008

Action Needed It is time that the residents of Hernando County take action against our county executives. We have been hearing how hard it has been to cut the budget. ...more

August 29, 2008

Two emergency response officials called Tropical Storm Fay a "rehearsal" for Highlands County's efforts. The storm's winds were relatively mild, even though the rain was heavy enough to flood the southern and eastern areas of the county. ...more

August 24, 2008

I am appalled that when reading the Hernando Today this week about the Hernando County Sheriff's Office finance director being involved in an accident that was purely a cover-up and, rest assured, that it goes much deeper than the two deputies at the scene. ...more

July 20, 2008

The three were just sitting there in the grass, it seemed. One with a camera and the other two with notepads, the trio seemingly camped out there every morning near the entrance to Buttonwood Bay, doing who-knows-what? ...more

July 17, 2008

LAKE PLACID — Minnie Jones saw Highway Park evolve over the 57 years of her life. "It was small ... not rough, just a small community where everybody raised your kids," Jones said of the Highway Park of her childhood. It was segregated and not prosperous, but otherwise calm and close-knit. She even remembered neighbors spanking her kids if they acted up, and she did the same to theirs. She then remembered the next generation. "The parents say, 'don't holler at my kids.'" The generation after that? "You're scared of the kids now." That fear isn't shared by everyone living there, but the crime some of them brought to the small neighborhood south of Lake Placid provoked community leaders and the Highlands County Sheriff's Office to turn the neighborhood around. By many accounts, the violence has ebbed over the past year since sheriff deputies picked up their patrols in the neighborhood. Residents remain divided, however, over the extent of the progress and what else needs to be done to both shed the neighborhood's notoriety and bring its youth up. ...more

January 13, 2008

Last month the Dunedin City Commission was leaning toward making the nonprofit groups that sponsor some of Dunedin's signature events, such as Art Harvest, pay a bit more of some of the related costs. Thursday night, however, commissioners had a change of heart. ...more

September 8, 2007