An Avon Park man remained in the Highlands County Jail Thursday under an $180,000 bond after being arrested on a warrant accusing him of exchanging sexual explicit correspondences and adult pornography with a 16-year-old girl. ...more

November 21, 2009

At the Highlands County Sheriff's Office, an investigator occasionally goes into Internet chat rooms and poses as a teenage girl. ...more

November 1, 2009

Through the decades, several Halloween myths have surfaced about the dangers of trick-or-treating. Among them: Evil people hide razors in apples while others taint candy. ...more

October 25, 2009

Polk County sheriff's deputies have accused a Winter Haven man of having images of child pornography on his iPod. ...more

September 27, 2009

Polk County man arrested, accused of child pornography for having illegal images on his iPod. ...more

September 26, 2009

Testimony is set to resume this morning in the child pornography possession trial of former Scott Lake Elementary School principal John Stelmack. ...more

June 10, 2009

A former Department of Children & Families employee was sentenced today to two years of probation for lying to investigators to help his friend, former DCF spokesman Al Zimmerman. ...more

June 2, 2009

After grow houses are raided in the Tampa Bay area, marijuana is typically bagged in brown paper and stored as evidence at law enforcement warehouses. ...more

May 14, 2009

After grow houses are raided in the Tampa Bay area, marijuana is typically bagged in brown paper and stored as evidence at law enforcement warehouses. ...more

May 13, 2009

A former spokesman for the state Department of Children & Families was sentenced this morning to 24 years and four months in prison for making child pornography. Al Zimmerman, 41, pleaded guilty in January to a child pornography charge. ...more

May 8, 2009