The city of Avon Park issued two precautionary boil water notices Wednesday due to a six-inch water main break as a result of a vehicle hitting a fire hydrant on Winthrop Street and a two-inch water main break on the west side of North Lake Avenue. ...more

September 10, 2009

The singer of the 1980s love song "Hungry Eyes" has pleaded no contest to drunken driving and failing to control his car and has been sentenced to a month in an Ohio jail. ...more

April 16, 2009

Members of the Highlands County Sheriff's Office and West Sebring Fire Department extinguished a brush fire south of the Lakeshore Mall Kmart that rekindled Tuesday morning. ...more

March 25, 2009

It will soon get more expensive to park illegally in this city. Fire Chief Stephen Moreno said firefighters got tired of complaints about motorists parking in designated fire lanes at shopping centers. ...more

March 21, 2009

A passing driver alerted an Avon Park couple to a shed fire Tuesday morning in the rear of their North Torrington Road home, said Fire Chief Earl Gray, with the Highlands Lakes Volunteer Fire Department. ...more

March 4, 2009

A single-car wreck in Clearwater has prompted authorities to close down a section of South Fort Harrison Avenue, Clearwater police say. ...more

February 5, 2009

For the second day in a row, Hillsborough County firefighters are tackling a house fire with no hydrant nearby. ...more

January 21, 2009

Hillsborough County Fire Rescue workers battled a two-alarm fire at an abandoned house in Ruskin early this morning. ...more

January 20, 2009

City Commission members want a status report on staffing levels at the Fire Department. ...more

August 16, 2008

Tarpon Springs City Commission members want a status report on staffing levels at the Fire Department. At their meeting Tuesday night commissioners asked interim City Manager Mark LeCouris to have a report responding to complaints that Fire Department personnel are under stress as a result of understaffing at the department by their next meeting, Aug. 19. ...more

August 14, 2008