LAKE PLACID — Wearing seat belts prevented Lake Placid Police Chief Phil Williams and his wife Margie from being seriously injured on Sunday afternoon on County Road 621 near Holmes Road. "My wife called out, 'Lookout, he's stopping,'" Williams said Monday morning. ...more

February 25, 2008

Recently the Kindergarten Learning Center held its first Transportation Day. The students and staff were amazed by the generosity of local businesses that sacrificed their valuable time explaining their equipment and jobs. ...more

February 21, 2008

Chris Overholt has been playing baseball for almost as long as he's been able to walk. ...more

February 16, 2008

The searchers had gone over the field once. It seemed unlikely that anything else would turn up. It was dark and rainy. Amid the awesome wreckage of the tornado that had just passed they'd found three dead. Some bodies had been flung hundreds of feet from their homes, landing in tangles of branches and across the roadway. ...more

February 7, 2008

SEBRING — An overnight fire destroyed Park Place Truss, located at 454 Park St. in downtown Sebring. ...more

January 17, 2008

AVON PARK — Sheriff's investigators announced the arrest of the girlfriend of a suspect wanted in the shooting death of a Sebring man near the intersection of Garrett Road and Alabama Road in Lacey Hills on Jan. 7. Vackara Massaline, 31, of Sebring, was charged as an accessory after the fact on a charge of first-degree murder. A warrant was issued earlier in the month for the arrest of Donald Alfonso Henry, 36, of last known address: 606 Denise Ave., Sebring, in connection with the fatal shooting of Hugh Andrew Marks, 31, of Sebring. Henry remained at large Wednesday. ...more

January 17, 2008

AVON PARK — Sheriff's investigators announced the arrest of the girlfriend of a suspect wanted in the shooting death of a Sebring man near the intersection of Garrett Road and Alabama Road in Lacey Hills on Jan. 7. ...more

January 16, 2008

AVON PARK — Sheriff's investigators announced the arrest of the girlfriend of a suspect wanted in the shooting death of a Sebring man near the intersection of Garrett Road and Alabama Road in Lacey Hills on Jan. 7. Vackara Massaline, 31, of Sebring, was charged as an accessory after the fact on a charge of first-degree murder. ...more

January 16, 2008

POLK CITY - The usually unremarkable pulse of workday traffic on Interstate 4 seized to a hellish halt Wednesday morning, when opaque fog and smoke triggered a chain of crashes that killed at least four people and injured 38. ...more

January 10, 2008

AVON PARK — Sheriff's deputies continued to search for answers Tuesday in the shooting death of a Sebring man near the intersection of Garrett Road and Alabama Road in Lacey Hills on Monday. ...more

January 8, 2008