Gov. DeSantis announced awards totaling more than $86 million to Dundee, Frostproof and the Peace River Watershed Project in ...

Polk County Sheriff’s deputies now ask everyone they encounter for place of birth, not only those arrested, as had been the ...

Following an internal Polk Sheriff's investigation, four detention deputies resigned in lieu of firing and three supervisors ...

The Polk County Sheriff's Office said an optician's arrest was "crystal clear" after a photo showed him point a gun at a ...

The Florida DEP announced plans to add 74 acres to Allen David Broussard Catfish Creek Preserve State Park in eastern Polk ...

Paramedic John Parris, injured in a Polk County Fire Rescue ambulance crash, received applause as he left the hospital.

Essie Ward was found unresponsive in her cell at 9:30 a.m. on April 3. But an autopsy found that she had been dead for 18-24 ...

POLK COUNTY, Fla. - It was supposed to be a public defense, a chance for Robert Reynolds to clear his name and explain how a business dispute spiraled into a felony theft charge. Instead, his ...

The Polk County Sheriff’s Office in Florida is investigating a multi-state theft ring involving up to 200 stolen vehicles. It ...

Jason Penrod, a former lawyer accused of diverting nearly $1.8 million from a client, pled guilty to grand theft and money ...

Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said a 19-year-old man stabbed a 67-year-old retired nurse to death because he had been kicked ...

Just after 12:30 p.m., an RV towing a pickup truck was heading westbound on I-4 when it began having mechanical issues and ...