A single vehicle crash has shut down two lanes of southbound Interstate 75 just north of Bruce B. Downs Boulevard, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. ...more

January 11, 2009

Rescue personnel had to extricate three passengers from a three-vehicle crash at 106th Avenue North and Fourth Street North about 6:15 this evening. ...more

January 7, 2009

Sebring resident Nicole Pounds, 34, remained in critical condition Monday night following a two-vehicle accident Sunday that claimed the life of her 6-month-old child. Pounds is in intensive care at Lakeland Regional Medical Center, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. Three other passengers – Harriet McClennon, 53, Isaiah Wiggins, 7, and Passion McClennon, 10 months, all of Sebring – were treated at various other hospitals and released. ...more

January 6, 2009

Authorities are investigating a fatal single-vehicle crash at interstates 75 and 275 in Palmetto that closed one southbound lane of I-275 ramp. ...more

December 26, 2008

More snow fell today in the Midwest, where the National Weather Service said up to 4 inches was possible in Chicago. The Northwest faced more snow and sleet early Wednesday, with up to 20 inches in the Cascade range. And more snow and ice spread over the Northeast. ...more

December 24, 2008

A Sebring man was killed Sunday following a two-vehicle accident in Lake County. Thomas E. McNally Jr., 29, of Sebring, was southbound in a 2003 GMC Truck on U.S. 27 in the inside lane when his vehicle was struck by a 1999 Mercury, driven by Arturo Hernandez Pina, 27, of Winter Haven, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. ...more

December 22, 2008

A former Pasco County sheriff's deputy was sentenced Friday to two years in federal prison for participating in a drug ring by using his patrol car and service weapon to rob a man he thought was a drug courier. ...more

December 13, 2008

The Florida Highway Patrol is issuing non-criminal traffic citations for drivers involved in a dozen crashes in Lakeland last January that resulted in five deaths. ...more

December 12, 2008

A Brooksville woman died Thursday night in a single-vehicle crash in Citrus County. ...more

December 6, 2008

An 25-year-old Auburndale man died in a single-vehicle crash Thursday night on Recker Highway, the Florida Highway Patrol said. Francisco Javier Ramirez was driving south about 9:21 p.m. when his van swerved into the northbound lane and went off the east shoulder into a ditch, troopers said. The 1989 Chevrolet van then struck a concrete culvert just north of Commercial Boulevard, troopers said. ...more

December 5, 2008