Scouting sales

The culture, helped by Hollywood films, has often seen the stereotypical hard-driving salesman, glib in speech and often ruthless in practice, who drives up both sales and blood pressure in his career. ...more

February 5, 2012

Passing it down

Ever wanted to start your own business? Wonder what it takes to make a mom-and-pop shop successful? ...more

February 5, 2012

Farm office to close

Highlands County is one of six Farm Service Agencies scheduled to close in Florida due to budget and staff reductions. ...more

February 5, 2012

AP student charged with battery on school official

An Avon Park High School student was free on $1,000 bail Wednesday after reportedly putting up a struggle with a school official to defend his McNuggets. ...more

February 4, 2012

Thomas Whitehouse provided food and shelter

When Thomas Russell Whitehouse Sr. learned from George Capwell, the contractor who had built his Pennsylvania home and store, about a newly developed town in Florida, he bought property without even seeing it. At the age of 40, with his wife and six children, he moved to Sebring in June of 1912. ...more

February 4, 2012

Four charged in rash of burglaries

Teamwork among Highlands County Sheriff's Office investigators has led to arrests in a rash of random burglaries from one end of Highlands County to the other. ...more

February 3, 2012

Jobs chief disputes numbers

In November and December, only 52 people on unemployment found jobs in Highlands, Hardee and DeSoto counties. ...more

February 3, 2012

31-year-old habitual offender sentenced to 25 years

Steven Joseph Handley was sentenced Tuesday to 20 years in prison on possession of ammunition by a convicted felon, with five years added for violation of probation on a felony battery with great bodily harm conviction. ...more

February 3, 2012