Wearing purple ribbons on their lapels, dozens of people called out of work or adjusted their plans to attend a Tuesday morning meeting of the Polk County Board of County Commissioners.

The Polk County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a deputy-involved shooting that happened Monday as officials said they were ...

A documented gang member was arrested Monday in a deputy-involved shooting after the suspect rammed multiple patrol vehicles, ...

The Orange County jail is one of only a handful in the state authorized to hold people for Immigration and Customs ...

Two men have been arrested in Polk County for animal neglect after deputies say they discovered six dogs that were living in ...

It is the smallest but most densely populated district in the county. Grady Judd easily won a sixth four-year term as Polk County sheriff on Tuesday. Judd took nearly 84% of the vote vs. 16% for ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Gilbert King explores the case of Leo Schofield and his late wife, Michelle Schofield, in the true-crime podcast "Bone Valley." ...

Sheriff Grady Judd says 81-year-old Patrick Benway was stabbed to death in his sleep by a teen who had just moved into their ...

Memorial Day was extra somber for some neighbors living in the Christina Hammock community when they woke up to a round of ...

A Florida man was killed on Monday when he approached police officers with garden shears. Two Polk County deputies shot ...

LAKELAND, FLORIDA — A career criminal somehow survived an alligator attack, then died in a hail of bullets by deputies ...

A Florida man was bitten by an alligator before he was shot and killed by deputies on Memorial Day, according to the sheriff’s office.