The Polk County Sheriff‘s Office is asking for the public’s help finding two people who illegally dumped trash near a road ...

A child is dead and three others, including a good Samaritan, were hospitalized following a fiery crash in Lakeland Thursday ...

According to the Polk County Sheriff's Office, deputies responded to a call about a retail theft in progress at the Publix ...

Despite a checkered past, Theodore “Pink Tie” Murray, a nonpartisan candidate from Frostproof, represents the first ...

The Polk County Sheriff's Office said the man was beating his wife with a hammer, then charged the deputy after being tasered ...

Several investigations are underway after a Polk County deputy shot and killed a man during a domestic battery call Saturday ...

Incumbent sheriff Mark Garton ran unopposed for reelection in 2020 but was challenged this election by Steve Warden, a former ...

POLK COUNTY, Fla. - Two teenage suspects have been arrested in connection with a series of vehicle burglaries and an ...

At 2:40 a.m. on Sunday, Eugene Albert Hendry, wearing only boxer shorts, began knocking on a home, the Polk County Sheriff’s ...

No specific schools or details were named in the threat. Schools were released from lockdown at about 12:30 p.m.

Becky Troutman overwhelmingly wins Polk County Commission District 1. And the county finally ends its Efficiency Commission ...

Polk County deputy fatally shot Charles Edwards after he attacked his wife and charged at the deputy with a hammer.