Highlands County News

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.