The Florida Legislature allocated $16.2 million in 2021 for the renovation of Polk State's Winter Haven Fine Arts Building, ...

The Lakeland Police Department has located a 6-year-girl they say went missing from her home twice in one night. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement issued a missing child alert Monday ...

POLK COUNTY, Fla. (CBS12) — A man from West Palm Beach is accused of traveling to Central Florida with the intention to meet a 14-year-old girl for sexual favors. Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd ...

I ACTUALLY HAD TO PUT MY PHONE DOWN BECAUSE AS SOON AS I OPEN IT AND SCROLL, IT WAS JUST POPPING EVERYWHERE, ESPECIALLY AFTER THURSDAY WHEN ICE ARRESTED ONE PERSON AT THE POLK COUNTY COURTHOUSE.

LAKELAND, Fla. — A Missing Child Alert was canceled after a 6-year-old girl who went missing in Lakeland was found safe. The Lakeland Police Department said Empress Moore, who was last seen in ...

(CN) – A “model prisoner” who pleaded guilty to raping and murdering a convenience store clerk 30 years ago when he was a soldier ... to the manslaughter and aggravated rape of 21-year-old Karen Hill ...

Other things to know: The IRS extended the personal income tax deadline from April 15 to May 1 for people in areas affected by hurricanes last year, including all Polk County residents. Anyone who ...

(Des Moines) The Polk County Sheriff’s office says rumors circulating about a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement crackdown in Des Moines are untrue. The Sheriff’s office says only one such ...

The old former sheriff snapped, “I am not afraid,” when several hundred Polk County citizens marched on the courthouse in 1948. Burch Biggs noted he had “whipped that crowd three or four times before.

Jury selection started around 8 a.m. Monday at the Polk County courthouse. This is a developing story.