According to the Miami Herald​, Thomas is also charged in a separate cold case involving the murder of a 16-year-old ...

POLK COUNTY, Fla. - A 54-year-old Bartow man, Christopher Kayon Mathis, found himself behind bars after a bizarre and violent ...

A business burglary in Babson Park, Polk County, has landed a 40-year-old man with a criminal history spanning Ohio and ...

The latest shooting happened late in the evening of April 25 outside the McDonald's at U.S. 92 and Combee Road in Lakeland.

POLK COUNTY, Fla. - A 38-year-old Davenport man, Luis Marquez Garcia, was apprehended by the Polk County Sheriff's Office ...

A routine traffic stop in Auburndale on Wednesday evening led to the arrest of a Lakeland man wanted on felony charges out of ...

From this vantage point, Bill Wilson watches as Chinook helicopters, spotter planes and air tankers launch an aerial fight against the Black Cove and Deep Woods fires in Polk County. Looking out ...

With citrus growers fleeing Florida amid disease, hard freezes and increasingly damaging storms fueled by the changing climate, a Polk County farmer chose to swap out his orange trees for a grove ...

Three people were killed when a small plane crashed in Polk County, according to a news release from the Hamilton County Office of Emergency Management. The McGhee Tyson Airport air traffic ...

POLK COUNTY, Fla. — Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd held a news conference Friday afternoon to confirm one of his deputies shot and killed a man a short time earlier. Before giving details ...

He has been booked into the Orlando County Jail on no bond on a fugitive from justice charge, online jail records show. Guzman was convicted last year of murdering 19-year-old Dalia Grayson and ...

On Thursday, Polk County averaged 428 on the Keetch-Byram Drought Index. That indicates abnormally dry conditions. Polk County averaged 482 on the Keetch-Byram Drought Index on April 10 ...