Lakeland News

Javier Marin joined the Small Business Development Center at University of South Florida recently, as featured in the Tampa Bay Business Journal's People on the Move.

DAVID ALBERS/STAFF - Collier County Commissioner Donna Fiala, left, snaps at fellow commissioner Tom Henning, right, during a discussion about renewing the contract of Executive Director at the Collier County Airport Authority Chris Curry on Tuesday, Sept.

Lindsay Grace Kerr and Jared Thomas Spears were married on July 6 at the Miller Beach Surf Club in Miller Place, with a reception following.

A 6-year-old Lakeland girl has been hospitalized after authorities say she and several others were attacked by two pit bulls Thursday evening.

In Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society's test to score hospitals' adoption and use of IT tools, only about 7% of US hospitals have achieved a top rating.

Whether the vacancy numbers hold up for a trend-setting third consecutive quarter remains to be seen.

Crews from both Polk County Fire Rescue and Lakeland Fire Department responded just after 11:00 p.m. to the blaze at the corner of N Combee Rd and Broadway.

Even staunch industry defenders concede that banks handled struggling homeowners and foreclosures poorly in the wake of the financial crisis.

Here are five things you need to know happening in Florida on Wednesday, December 4. Mayor-Elect Rick Kriseman at Harvard University St. Petersburg Mayor-Elect Rick Kriseman will be in Cambridge, Massachusetts beginning on Wednesday.

Lakeland, FL December 4 , 2013 - Jacksonville police arrested a 70-year-old Florida woman after she approached an undercover detective to kill her daughter-in-law.

Lakeland authorities are searching for a juvenile suspect who may have started four small fires in the Walmart on Highway 98 North.

Youfit Health Clubs is partnering with the Pretty Muddy Women's Mud Run in Lakeland, Fla.

Exciting! Lively! Delightful! Enchanting! These are some of the remarks from the audience last weekend when the cast of Clare and the Chocolate Nutcracker performed before Congresswoman Corinne Brown and members of the community.

A neighborhood filled with young children was angry to hear their neighbor has been accused of 15 counts of child pornography.

A Florida man has been arrested after deputies say a neighbor found a cell phone memory card containing child porn images in his trash.

The Polk County Sheriff's Office reports Michael Stanley Cox and his wife Yvette Marie Cox were riding in a Harley Davidson after going to Publix Saturday afternoon in Lakeland.

Polk County Sheriff Office deputies are on scene of a fatal crash involving a garbage truck and a motorcycle.

More than two dozen newly-elected American mayors, inclusing Marni Sawicki of Cape Coral, are gathering at Harvard University next week for a three-day leadership conference.

Daryl Whitaker, grandmother Shirley Shear, Shear's dog Sugar and Henry Moseley Jr. enjoy a pleasant afternoon in Tampa, Fla., outside Shear's cottage, converted into a "granny pod."

A new study challenges the popular notion that men and women experience heart attacks very differently-and if its results change the way heart attacks are diagnosed, it could save lives.