With a major expansion nearing completion, Highlands County's Children's Advocacy Center will soon truly centralize its staff and most of its agency partners under one roof. ...more

November 19, 2009

NBC is renewing "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" for another year. ...more

April 14, 2009

Avon Park police officer James Hilton Parker III remained in Highlands County Jail in lieu of $250,000 bond Monday, after being charged Sunday with aggravated child abuse of the 20-month-old baby girl of his live-in girlfriend. ...more

March 30, 2009

Apparently, there can't be too many brash and quirky characters played by Brits or Australians on American television. ...more

January 21, 2009

Stephanie March is going back to work as New York prosecutor Alexandra Cabot on "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit." ...more

January 8, 2009

A Miami man remained in jail Tuesday on no bond following his weekend arrest for allegedly molesting a victim under the age of 12. ...more

December 24, 2008

A Miami man remained in jail Tuesday on no bond following his weekend arrest for allegedly molesting a victim under the age of 12. ...more

December 23, 2008

A Sebring man was free Monday on $30,000 bail after he was arrested and accused of writing checks for more than $15,000 from his 94-year-old grandmother's checking account. ...more

October 21, 2008

A visit to the Hollywood set of "Pushing Daisies" is like entering a whimsical, surreal world where fantastic things happen in a diner with a pie-crust-shaped roof. ...more

September 28, 2008

Statistics show that cases of reported child abuse were up for the first eight months of 2008 compared to the same time period last year, according to Sheriff's Lt. John Chess, with the sheriff's Special Victims Unit. ...more

September 26, 2008