Call it 'chop lifting.' ...more

March 16, 2009

A man accused of stealing a tractor-trailer in Davenport has been taken into custody. ...more

March 16, 2009

The sheriff's office is charging forward in its campaign against prescription drug abuse. ...more

March 16, 2009

Amy VanDeventer has always been a cheapskate. The recession is taking her to new extremes. ...more

March 14, 2009

Managers at Publix supermarkets have new troublemakers to chase down besides the usual shoplifters: children running through the store in chicken suits. ...more

March 12, 2009

Traffic flow problems along U.S. 19 near the Hudson Wal-Mart Supercenter concerned county officials and residents who attended a conference today. ...more

March 11, 2009

Supermarket managers at Publix have new troublemakers to chase down besides the usual shoplifters: kids running through the store in chicken suits. Bored or rebellious - and with way too much time on their hands - young people are arming themselves with video cameras and cell phone cameras and creating all sorts of mayhem at stores. Then they post their exploits on the video-sharing Web site YouTube or social networking sites such as MySpace. ...more

March 10, 2009

Today, Rikelle Purcell is the face of unemployment. Purcell was working at Authorized TV in Blairsville, Ga., but she moved to Sebring, hoping to find a better job. She wound up with more of the same: here, she's an office manager for Appliance Hospital, handling customer telephone calls, scheduling service calls, routing service trucks. ...more

March 9, 2009

A dance is scheduled from 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. Saturday, March 7, at Sebring Village Clubhouse, behind Wal-Mart near Schumacher Road. ...more

March 7, 2009

Florida might have a soaring unemployment rate and large store chains might be liquidating or shutting down, but the national trends have been encouraging to some retail analysts. ...more

March 7, 2009