Lakeland News

An off-duty Lakeland police officer, enraged because another driver cut him off in traffic, followed the man, pushed him and punched him in the face Sunday before two bystanders broke up the fight, the Polk County Sheriff's Office said.

A Lakeland mother fatally shot her son in self-defense on Friday night, deputies said.

Some lucky person walked into a Publix supermarket in suburban Florida over the past few days and bought a winning Powerball ticket now worth an estimated $590.5 million.

The foundation, named for the popular radio and television personality who promoted general aviation throughout his long career, is offering two scholarships.

The Rev. John P. Anderegg, who turned a small, dilapidated Ormond Beach church of fewer than a dozen worshipers into a 1,500-member congregation and school, has died.

PHOTO BY CASSIE JACOBY In addition to the FPRA Fill-A-Bag campaign to collect hygiene products for homeless students, Lake Wales churches pack 110 backpacks filled with "a little something extra" to students in Lake Wales Charter Schools every Friday.

Describing it as "just unbelievable conduct," "immoral," "unethical" and "improper," Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd had two questions for the school bus driver who allegedly drove students from Bartow to her home in Lakeland and staged a fight between two teenage girls.

A Fort Meade Middle Senior High School teacher has been charged in connection with a so-called "adverse possession" real estate case that happens in Polk County more than many might think.

A Winter Haven man was hospitalized early Sunday after an encounter with a Ledger newspaper delivery driver left him with three gunshot wounds, according to Winter Haven Police Department reports.

On Thursday evening, May 9, 2013, Polk County Sheriff's Special Victims Unit detectives arrested 29-year-old Patrice Sanders of 1133 Enterprise Street in Lakeland, who drives a Polk County School bus and so far have charged her with: one count False Imprisonment; two counts Child Abuse; two counts Child Neglect; two counts Contributing to the ... (more)

Lakeland, FL May 13, 2013 - Drug cases are not always open and such. There are many legal issues that are open to question.

National Bike Month has existed for fifty-five years. It began as American Bike Month, but the name was shortened to just Bike Month in 1956.

A Polk County, Fla. school bus driver who allegedly set up a fight between two teenage passengers and encouraged them to brawl in the front yard of her home is in custody, charged with two counts of child abuse, according to the county sheriff's office.

Donald "Wayne" Collins, 91, of Fort Myers, Fla., passed away Friday, May 10, 2013, under the caring hands of Hope Hospice.

A Polk County school bus driver has been arrested for allegedly forcing two students to fight outside her home Thursday.

On April 16, around 12:19 a.m., police responded to a home on West 12th Street in reference a home invasion robbery.

The Polk County Sheriff's Office says 41-year-old James Shannon Arnett is in custody.

He was 19 at the time. Tommy Eugene Smith was 37-years-old and a nursing supervisor at Lakeland Regional Medical Center when his body was found during the early evening hours of Oct.

More than three months after rushing to file their taxes early, some filers still haven't received refunds from the IRS.

PHOTO BY CASSIE JACOBY In addition to the FPRA Fill-A-Bag campaign to collect hygiene products for homeless students, Lake Wales churches pack 110 backpacks filled with "a little something extra" to students in Lake Wales Charter Schools every Friday.