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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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AVON PARK -- Highlands and Polk deputies teamed up Saturday, Nov. 11 to catch a man suspected in several burglaries of the Sun Pure facility north of Avon Park. The shuttered citrus processing plant had been multiple time in the previous week by somebody who stripped copper wiring. It was 5:22 a.m. when cameras picked up a person dressed in camouflage in the facility. Units converged on the property and set up a tight perimeter while Sgt. Kyle Albritton and K-9 Mico began a search of the

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​SEBRING -- An arrest warrant has been issued in the Oct. 30 murder of Joshua Dean Hickey. Johan Wendon Holder, 21, of Clewiston, will be facing charges of second-degree murder, armed robbery, armed burglary, grand theft of a motor vehicle, firing a weapon in public and possession of a weapon by a convicted felon the next time he is in Highlands County. Currently, Holder is being held in Hendry County after being arrested in Clewiston the day after the murder.

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LAKE PLACID -- A six-hour standoff ended with no injuries Thursday in Lake Placid. The incident began with a welfare check at around 12:30 p.m. on 81-year-old Sherrell Lamoine Rose at his home on Eleanor Boulevard in Lake Placid. Rose was being very aggressive toward the EMS personnel when they were trying to check on him (he had fallen and hit his head), so a deputy was called. When the deputy arrived, Rose got even more agitated and pulled a gun out of a nightstand. Everyone backed out of

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