Sebring News

FILE, RYAN PELHAM/STAFF Jose Montenegro with Delta Sebring cuts a drywall corner bead in 2012.

Artist Linda Kegley paints as Jimmy Gilbreath, wearing his Florida Santa costume, watches in Circle Park Friday morning.

A score card may be needed to keep track of all the school administrative changes in the works for next year.

Levon Stukes, manager of the Boys and Girls Club Emporium, helps customer Maria Cordero at the store in downtown Sebring Wednesday.

This afternoon, from 3:45-6 p.m., the police department is hosting an open house at its station, 307 N. Ridgewood Drive.

Downtown Sebring will play host to a live morning show on Fox 13 Friday morning from 6 a.m. to 10 a.m. SEBRING If New York City is too far a destination to become part of an audience for a television morning show, Sebring's downtown circle will provide an alternative Friday.

Florida Hospital nurse Michelle Bissessar moves a patient to a different room in the outpatient surgery center at the hospital Tuesday afternoon.

SEBRING Sebring police investigated two accidents that closed both the north and southbound lanes of U.S. 27 near Hammock Road on Monday about 5 p.m. It was more than an hour before all lanes in both directions were reopened.

AVON PARK An Avon Park man apparently thwarted a burglary, according to an arrest report released Tuesday.

SEBRING A man who insisted that police arrest his wife for supposedly breaking into his business ended up being the one arrested, according to an arrest report.

There are only a few days remaining for seniors at the Avon Park, Sebring and Lake Placid high schools to turn their grades into entries to win a car during the Alan Jay Automotive Network's annual 'Wheels For A's' giveaway for the class of 2013.

For the fourth time in three years, Lisa Celentano, Dirty Dozen founder and owner of Crossfit Sebring, is bringing the obstacle race to Highlands County.

Loretta DeWitt has been painting her entire life, with her first "mural" being done when she got in trouble for drawing on a wall in her house when she was 3. SEBRING - Artist Loretta DeWitt has a lifetime of memories that have inspired her diverse collection of etchings, watercolors, sculptures, acrylic paintings, photographs and multi-media ... (more)

SEBRING Retirement could be worse for Wes Linscott. He retired at 60 after 24 years as a police dispatcher and 911 operator in Maine.

Asia Gilroy said her mother, Mae Lee, works long days doing chores around the house, making meals and working her own job.

Jonny F. Tanner, born April 4, 1971, was lifted to Heaven on angels' wings on May 5, 2013.

The City of Sebring proved to be even more cautious than even the most protective of moms, waiting much longer than that -- four years, 11 months and 27 days longer -- to re-open City Pier Beach on Lake Jackson for swimming after a man drowned in the dredge hole off shore.

An Avon Park resident has started a support group for families of sexually abused children.

After two years of negotiations, city council members voted unanimously Tuesday evening to do away with the City of Sebring Fire Department's pension plan.

A call about a disturbance on May 8 led to the arrest of a Sebring man, according to an arrest report released Thursday.