No traffic stop is routine. It was 10:45 p.m. Tuesday when police officer Adam Willis stopped a white Mercury traveling 57 mph in a 45 mph zone at U.S. 27 North and Kingdom Way. ...more

August 8, 2008

A Lake Placid man was free on $3,000 bail Friday after deputies say he was arrested when they found him asleep with his wife and two young children in the same room and a silver tray with some marijuana within the children's reach. ...more

August 4, 2008

Deputies arrested four people on drug charges Thursday after searching a home on Greenview Avenue. ...more

August 1, 2008

A man arrested after trying to board a Southwest Airlines flight with a box cutter concealed inside a hardcover book was sentenced in federal court today to a year's probation. ...more

July 24, 2008

A suspected drug dealer was arrested at home Wednesday by undercover deputies. ...more

July 17, 2008

A Sebring woman remained in Highlands County Jail in lieu of $7,000 bond Monday after sheriff's investigators say she intentionally bit a 1-year-old boy on the face to discipline the baby for head-butting and biting. ...more

July 15, 2008

The future looked bright for Timothy L. Brooks in June when he threw the only touchdown pass for the Lakewood Ranch High School varsity football team in its spring warm-up game. ...more

July 15, 2008

Manatee sheriff's officials today arrested a quarterback of the Lakewood Ranch High School football team on a murder charge in the killing of a 19-year-old man during a drug deal and robbery Sunday night. ...more

July 14, 2008

Investigators think a 19-year-old man was trying to buy drugs in Bradenton when he was shot and killed Sunday night. ...more

July 14, 2008