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Several Sebring businesses were broken into over weekend SEBRING – Business owners are being encouraged to take precautions after a string of burglaries in Sebring Saturday night. The Highlands County Sheriff’s Office and the Sebring Police Department are investigating 12 related burglaries where the suspect used a tool to pull deadbolt mechanisms out of doors (pictured) in the Sebring Plaza, Fairmount Cinema Square, the Golfer’s World Plaza and the Fountain Plaza. The suspect then entered the

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AVON PARK --  Detectives say a family feud over a woman and custody battle over a child boiled over into gunfire Saturday night in Avon Park. Levi Russel Brown, 42, was charged with attempted first degree murder and firing a weapon into a dwelling after being arrested less than five hours after the shooting that sent his 53-year-old cousin to Lakeland Regional  with gunshot wounds in his head and chest. The wounds were not life-threatening. Brown and the victim have been feuding over a woman,

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LAKE PLACID -- A month-long investigation ended with a bang and a bite Wednesday night, Nov. 15, in Lake Placid. By the time it was over, 40-year-old Dederrian Leevan Williams of Lake Placid was facing a litany of charges. The Tactical Anti-Crime Unit was at a storage facility in Lake Placid after intelligence indicated a man had been using one of the units as part of his drug dealing operation. While the TAC detectives were at the unit with a search warrant for the locker,  Williams pulled in

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SEBRING -- Getting needy families some help may soon get easier in Highlands County. Darin Canary, lead pastor of First Christian Church of Wauchula, and Missy Albritton have enlisted the help of the Highlands County Sheriff’s Office’s five volunteer chaplains to help spread the word among fellow pastors about CarePortal, a service that links families in need with churches that want to help children. The system has been in place in Hardee County since March and is branching out to Highlands

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AVON PARK -- Two teenagers have been arrested and charged for a drive-by shooting in Avon Park Lakes on Sunday, Nov. 12. Isaiah Tyree Golden, 18, and Rasheed Nathaniel Jones, 17, are both charged with firing a weapon in public, firing a weapon from a vehicle and firing a weapon into an occupied home in connection with the incident at 2075 N. Berkley Road. None of the seven people inside the home were injured when multiple handgun rounds were fired around 12:40 p.m. Security cameras from a

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