The following people were booked Tuesday, Sept. 29 into the Highlands County Jail: ...more

October 1, 2009

St. Joseph's Hospital has installed an electronic monitoring system and a camera in its psychiatric ward to better observe patients after a state agency investigated a December rape reported there, documents state. ...more

February 14, 2009

St. Joseph's Hospital has installed an electronic monitoring system and a camera in its psychiatric ward to observe patients better after a state agency investigated a rape reported there in December, documents say. ...more

February 13, 2009

A Former Nature Coast Technical High School band director faces the prospect of trial next month. ...more

January 27, 2009

The Nature Coast band director charged with having sexual contact with a 17-year-old female student will resign. ...more

January 8, 2009

A child-pornography investigation in central Florida has led to the indictment of a former missionary who authorities say had more than 6,000 pictures and 250 video clips on his computer of children engaged in sex. ...more

December 28, 2008

A traffic stop Sunday resulted in a felony drug charge for a Brooksville woman. ...more

December 9, 2008

– The step-grandfather of a 7-year-old girl was arrested on sex charges after her grandmother told authorities she found the child's diary that spelled out sex acts she had with the man. ...more

December 4, 2008

Tarpon Springs Police Department Lt. Barbara Templeton says it may take another month for detectives to finish their investigation of an officer suspended in November over allegations he had inappropriate contact with a 17-year-old high school student. ...more

December 1, 2008

Even today, two years after Mark Foley's very public fall from grace, the former congressman can't explain why he sent lurid, sexually explicit computer messages to male teens who had worked as Capitol Hill pages. ...more

November 13, 2008