SEBRING -- While this year's Run to the Heartland was the biggest ever, one important face was missing.

Returning patrons of the event, now in its fifth year, may remember him as the emcee and lead singer of the band Quick Fire, who, without their front man, will close out the event Sunday.

Greg "JR" Rodgers was the 13th member of the Heartland Riders Association, the motorcycle group that ...

SEBRING -- Thursday night, two dozen neighbors sat at long tables under a colorful array of state flags in the Military Sea Services Museum, surrounded by mannequins wearing dress uniforms.

It seemed a proper setting for the event taking place, the monthly meeting of the Greater Kenilworth Crime Watch Association.

For some time now, the once quiet streets that intersect Kenilworth Boulevard ...

SEBRING -- Police are on the lookout for one or more suspects after they reportedly opened fire on three Sebring police officers.

Officer Greg Barlaug had completed a traffic stop just after midnight Friday morning and was talking with two other SPD officers when seven or eight shots were fired in the officers' direction.

One of the shots hit the windshield of a patrol car, shattering it. T ...

SEBRING -- After serving as the only member of the non-ad valorem assessments team for the past seven months, Beatrice Johnson is set to take over Treasa Handley's old job.

Johnson worked directly under Handley, who was dismissed in January for the content and volume of her instant messages sent on county time and with county computers.

Since her former boss' dismissal, Johnson has single-h ...