Lake Placid News

Levon Stukes, manager of the Boys and Girls Club Emporium, helps customer Maria Cordero at the store in downtown Sebring Wednesday.

Crime is at historic lows, Highlands Chief Deputy Mark Schrader told a respectful audience Thursday morning, but the gain was won with hard sacrifice.

One thing you learn right away about Lake Placid's new town clerk is that she goes by her middle name -McQueen - and doesn't like to reveal her first name.

Highlands County Sheriff's Deputies are crediting a Lake Placid man with saving an 89-year-old woman's life after she crashed her car through a fence into a lake along Miller Road Wednesday.

SEBRING Two men charged in the March window-shooting spree were set for pre-trial conferences: Cody Scott Dayfert on June 19, Michael William Brown on June 20.

SEBRING A competency hearing has been set for John Sanders Haile, the Lake Placid attorney and accountant who is accused of defrauding a widow's family out of her legacy.

A Lake Placid man was praised Thursday by the Highlands County Sheriff's Office for rescuing a woman whose car had crashed into a pond Wednesday, according to a press release.

United States Attorney Robert E. O'Neill announces the unsealing of an eight count indictment charging Desmond Holden, Kinjonah Coston, and Octavis Jones with conspiracy to prepare fraudulent tax returns, theft of public money and aggravated identity theft.

Vicki Spires, president of the board of the Greater Lake Placid Chamber of Commerce, announces that Maria Hagg, Florida Hospital Heartland Lake Placid, has joined the chamber board of directors.

PHOTO BY CASSIE JACOBY The Lake Wales Lions Club welcomed 38 members from other chapters at the District 35-I zone meeting on Tuesday, April 23.

Highlands County NAACP President Al Hinson told the Avon Park City Council that the City of Charm needs some help to boost its minority representation on city boards and committees.

When the call went out March 10 that a 67-year-old Sebring-area woman appeared to have stopped breathing, Highlands County Deputy Angelic Sanchez was not far away.

Mack Payne, retired business owner living in Lake Placid, Florida, has written a book about his experiences in Vietnam titled .

City residents now recycle approximately 42 tons of material per month, Deleon said.