Nature Coast Technical High School is without a band director today, the first day back for students after the winter break. ...more

January 6, 2009

A former Spring Hill doctor on the sheriff's most wanted list is being sued by a former patient on a claim that he molested her in his office. ...more

December 23, 2008

A Punta Gorda man has been charged with lacing the food and drinks of a niece and nephew with antidepressants, police said. ...more

December 13, 2008

A continuance was requested Wednesday in the case of an Avon Park man charged with attempted second-degree murder. ...more

December 11, 2008

Robert Glenn Temple has pleaded not guilty in the death of his wife, Rosemary Christensen. ...more

December 1, 2008

AVON PARK Five people are facing a number of drug charges following their arrest Friday in a "reverse sting operation" orchestrated by deputies with the Highlands County Sheriff's Office. ...more

November 20, 2008

Relatives of a Tampa woman grieved today, recalling how they had learned late Tuesday that her body had been found in a vacant house in Lakeland. Jennifer Denise Johnson, 31, was reported missing Saturday evening after family members became concerned when she did not appear in time for her 2-year-old daughter's birthday party. The family scrapped the party, anxious and worried. ...more

November 19, 2008

One of the suspects charged in the murder of Samuel Tiller may change his plea at a December hearing. ...more

November 14, 2008

Adult movie producer Paul Little is asking a judge to let him postpone his 46-month prison sentence while his lawyers appeal his conviction on obscenity charges. Little, whose pornographic character goes by the name Max Hardcore, lives in California, but was tried in Tampa after investigators here ordered his films through the mail and downloaded them on the Internet. ...more

October 24, 2008

James Barnes' stated motive for killing his wife, Virginia Barnes, was because he did not want her to live with her "current state of dementia." ...more

October 24, 2008