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12 hrs ago | Highlands Today

Man charged with stealing electrical wire

A Sebring man was arrested over the weekend for allegedly stealing $6,600 worth of spools of electrical wire from Sea Hawk Industries.

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Related Topix: Sebring, FL

Mon Nov 09, 2009

Highlands Today

Wanted in Highlands County

The following people were being sought by the Highlands County Sheriff's Office on active warrants as of Thursday, Nov.

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Related Topix: Sebring, FL, Lake Placid, FL

Sebring News-Sun

County tax roll continues to drop

Myrna Spencer, accounting director for the Highlands County Tax Collector's Office, made an annual presentation to the Board of County Commissioners on Tuesday.

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Sat Nov 07, 2009

Business Wire

Fitch Rates Adventist Health System Sunbelt (FL) 2008B Revs & 2009E Rfdg Bonds 'AA-'; Outlook Stable

Fitch Ratings assigns an 'AA-' long-term rating to the following Adventist Health System Sunbelt bonds: --$125,000,000 Highlands County Health Facilities Authority hospital revenue bonds, series 2008B; --$62,520,000 Highlands County Health Facilities Authority hospital revenue refunding bonds, series 2009E.

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Related Topix: Winter Park, FL

Fri Nov 06, 2009

Highlands Today

Small plane crashes in SE Highlands

A single-engine airplane went down Tuesday afternoon at Slough Ditch, between County Road 621 and State Road 70 in the southern part of Highlands County, according to the Highlands County Sheriff's Office.

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Thu Nov 05, 2009

Tampa Bay Online

Car keys lead to burglary arrest

A man and woman were arrested on burglary charges after a set of car keys belonging to the woman were allegedly found in one of the bags of stolen items.

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Related Topix: Sebring, FL, Prison

Wed Nov 04, 2009

Highlands Today

Friend: Dead woman was in abusive relationship

A Georgia woman claims Sebring resident Rikelle Purcell, who died last week after what authorities describe as a murder-suicide, was set to leave her abusive boyfriend before she was shot to death.

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Related Topix: Sebring, FL, Okeechobee, FL

Tue Nov 03, 2009

Highlands Today

Commission upset with $15,000 penalty payment

Highlands County still doesn't have the $1.65 million asphalt plant grant that was promised by Florida Department of Environmental Protection, and county commissioners were furious because they just found out during a meeting Tuesday.

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Mon Nov 02, 2009

Highlands Today

Man charged with drugs after deputy offers him a ride home

A local law enforcement officer offered a Lake Placid resident a ride home late Friday night but ended up arresting him for allegedly possessing cocaine.

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Related Topix: Drugs, Lake Placid, FL, Sebring, FL

Sun Nov 01, 2009

Highlands Today

More arrests made in grow house investigations

Two more suspects were arrested Tuesday night on charges of mortgage fraud and grand theft stemming from the numerous grow houses discovered and dismantled in Highlands County in 2007.

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Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Home Listing, Miami, FL, Hialeah, FL

Tampa Bay Online

Internet child porn is a pervasive problem

At the Highlands County Sheriff's Office, an investigator occasionally goes into Internet chat rooms and poses as a teenage girl.

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Related Topix: Criminal Defense Law, Law, Tampa, FL

Fri Oct 30, 2009

Highlands Today

Sebring deaths ruled murder-suicide

The death investigation that began Thursday morning at 4401 Shamrock St., in northwest Sebring, has now been ruled a murder-suicide by the medical examiner's office.

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Related Topix: Sebring, FL

Thu Oct 29, 2009

Sebring News-Sun

Possible murder-suicide in Sebring being investigated

Highlands County Sheriff's Deputies responded to a 911 call at 4401 Shamrock St.

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Related Topix: Sebring, FL, Okeechobee, FL

Highlands Today

Authorities investigating two deaths at Sebring home

The Highlands County Sheriff's Office is investigating two deaths at 4401 Shamrock St., in Sebring.

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Related Topix: Sebring, FL

Tue Oct 27, 2009

Sebring News-Sun

Mortgage fraud leads to racketeering and marijuana trafficking arrests

Detectives with the Highlands County Sheriff's Office and Agents of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement's Sebring Field Office attempted to serve arrest warrants on 10 subjects for charges that include conspiracy to commit racketeering, conspiracy to traffic in cannabis, attempt to manufacture cannabis, mortgage fraud and grand theft.

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Related Topix: Sebring, FL, Miami, FL, Miami Metro

Mon Oct 26, 2009

Highlands Today

Wanted in Highlands County

The following people were being sought by the Highlands County Sheriff's Office on active warrants as of Thursday, Oct.

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Related Topix: Lake Placid, FL, Sebring, FL

Sun Oct 25, 2009

Sebring News-Sun

County Veterans Day plans being finalized

Plans are under way for a Veterans Day service scheduled for Wednesday, Nov., 11, at the new Veteran Services Office in Sebring.

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Related Topix: Sebring, FL, Life, Veteran Affairs, Avon Park, FL, Lake Placid, FL

Sat Oct 24, 2009

Highlands Today

Woman charged with battering pregnant woman

A Lake Placid woman was arrested Wednesday for allegedly battering two women, one of whom was pregnant.

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Related Topix: Home Listing, Home

Fri Oct 23, 2009

Sebring News-Sun

County Commissioners vote down Eagle agreement

After almost five hours of debate, the Highlands County Board of County Commissioners denied the Stipulated Settlement Agreement with the Department of Community Affairs, and with it the Eagle Training Center, by a 4-0 vote.

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Related Topix: Venus, FL

Thu Oct 22, 2009

Sebring News-Sun

County takes another look at training center

After restructuring the agenda, the Highlands County Commission decided to hear some of the citizens who were present to speak out for and against the Stipulated Settlement Agreement concerning the proposed Eagle Security Training Center just west of Venus.

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Related Topix: Venus, FL, Sebring, FL

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