Authorities say Jonathan Brewer Jr. charged and fatally injured fellow Polk jail inmate Michael Clark. The death was not ...

Judge Mary Catherine Green of the 10th Judicial Circuit Court in Polk County, Florida, will retire on July 31 after 26 years of service. Green, 63, is retiring early, citing a desire to move on to ...

POLK COUNTY, Fla. - Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd announced the arrest of five individuals, all identified as Venezuelan ...

A court had previously moved a lawsuit from the family of 11-year-old Michael Jaramillo to Scott County for trial. Now it's coming back to Polk County ...

A 39-year-old man was sentenced to 18 months in prison for assaulting three Monmouth police officers as they were arresting ...

More than 900 students from throughout Florida took part in the 70th Annual State Science and Engineering Fair of Florida, ...

A judge paused T.J. Wiggins' federal trial so his Polk County death penalty trial on triple-murder charges can proceed.

Pointing to ongoing threats to manatees, a U.S. district judge Friday said the state has violated the federal Endangered ...

Perez, 31, punched Polk County Jail deputies and grabbed a female deputy inappropriately, making vulgar comments.

A man from Polk County was sentenced in federal court on Wednesday for possessing and distributing child pornography while ...

The trial was moved to Scott County in 2023 due to pre-trial publicity. Last week a judge ruled that enough time had passed so the case can return to the county where the incident happened.

In separate cases, men from Polk County and Waynesville were sentenced to federal prison for crimes involving child sexual ...