BARTOW - A Bartow High School math teacher was arrested on Wednesday for offering a 16-year-old old student an "A" if he received oral sex, police said. ...more

December 19, 2007

SEBRING — Residents of the Sun 'n Lake of Sebring Improvement District have been alerted to call the Highlands County Sheriff's Office in the event a solicitor knocks at the door trying to sell cleaning or other services. ...more

December 19, 2007

FORT MEADE - The Polk County Sheriff's Office says a Fort Meade police officer was arrested after detectives learned he had been paying a prostitute for sex during the past year. ...more

December 7, 2007

Byron Hileman limped back into the courtroom after a brief conference with his client, 86-year-old flying ace-turned-felon Abner Aust. ...more

December 5, 2007

Jurors deliberated for about two hours Thursday before finding a Pasco County man guilty of trying to arrange a hit on his ex-wife's boyfriend. ...more

November 16, 2007

I would like to respond to an entry by Sharon K. Hays, of Valrico, concerning her experience with a solicitation call from the Fraternal Order of Police (Letters, Nov. 5). ...more

November 14, 2007

State Rep. Bob Allen's attorney doubts an impartial jury can be seated when the lawmaker's sex solicitation trial starts today. ...more

November 4, 2007

Abner Aust, an 86-year-old retired Air Force colonel and certified fighter ace, will be sentenced Dec. 4 on a probation violation charge. ...more

October 23, 2007

BARTOW - Abner Aust, an 86-year-old retired Air Force colonel and certified fighter ace, will be sentenced on Dec. 4 for a probation violation that could keep him in prison an additional 15 years. The date was set at a hearing today at the Polk County Courthouse by Judge Randall McDonald ...more

October 22, 2007

A home-schooled teenager who felt bullied amassed a cache of guns, knives and hand grenades and tried to recruit another boy for a possible school attack, authorities said Thursday. ...more

October 12, 2007