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A Florida man has been arrested after deputies found him driving erratically and located a box of cookies that wasn’t what it seemed. 34-year-old Steven Robert Thomas was pulled over after a member of the Highland County Sheriff’s Office Tactical Anti-Crime Team saw him driving erratically on Lakeview Drive in Sebring around 9:30 p.m. on Nov. 10. Deputies say he drifted over the center line several times, and then almost clipped another car when he made a turn. Thomas claimed the car was having “steering issues,” which may have been true, but the bigger issue was that his license was...

SEBRING, Florida (CNN) -- A couple of hours up the road from where some September 11 hijackers learned to fly, the new head of Aryan Nation is praising them -- and trying to create an unholy alliance between his white supremacist group and al Qaeda. "You say they're terrorists, I say they're freedom fighters. And I want to instill the same jihadic feeling in our peoples' heart, in the Aryan race, that they have for their father, who they call Allah."

SEBRING, Florida -- A gunman who overtook a SunTrust Bank branch in Florida apparently made the five women inside lie down on the lobby floor before shooting them in the backs of their heads, police said Thursday. Sebring police Chief Karl Hoglund said there's no indication Zephen Xaver intended to rob the bank, and no apparent connection among him, the bank or the victims. Xaver, 21, has been charged with five counts of premeditated murder in the shooting deaths of the four bank employees and a customer. "He overtook the bank by force. He then shot everyone in the bank,"...

SEBRING, Fla. (WFLA) - An incident inside a central Florida bank ended with "several people down" on Wednesday afternoon. Sebring police officials say a man called 911 around 12:30 p.m. Wednesday and reported that he had fired shots inside the SunTrust Bank on US-27 South in Sebring. Sebring police officers and Highlands County deputies responded to the scene and established a perimeter around the bank. Our news helicopter flying over the scene saw a massive law enforcement presence as police tried to negotiate with the man barricaded inside. Police were unsuccessful at first but say the man eventually surrendered after...

You’ve probably never heard of Sebring, Ohio. Despite tainted water, which the EPA knew about for months before the public did, shipments of water bottles for the angry residents, two EPA employees being put on leave, and all the other elements of a scandal, it was missing something.

SEBRING, Ohio, Sept. 12, 2006 – Under a “no rain” proclamation issued earlier in the week by the town’s mayor, Colton Lockner, age 9, led nearly 2,000 people in Sebring, Ohio’s first Freedom Walk yesterday. Mother Nature took heed and altered her rainy forecast so participants could walk from the town’s elementary school to the Sebring Veterans Memorial. Lockner, the walk’s organizer, served as master of ceremonies during the short program at the walk’s culmination to remember the victims of the Sept. 11 attacks and honor the nation’s servicemembers. “We are not on the Mall in Washington or on Times...