Lakeland News

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.

Fifty Marines on 11 different boats were treated to a day out on the water and a Thanksgiving Day meal, thanks to members of the Oceanside Yacht Club.

Nov. 27--Deploying a well-drilled army of contortionists, jugglers and gymnasts, "Cirque Dreams Holidaze" will spin, twist and twirl its way around the Roanoke Performing Arts Theatre this Sunday, as the internationally assembled cast of acrobats presents a high-flying extravaganza created by director Neil Goldberg.

The Clearwater Audubon Society has the following events planned for December. * Monday, Dec. 2 - The monthly membership meeting and potluck is set, with the mix-and-mingle beginning at 6:30 p.m. and the meeting at 7 p.m., at 2750 Park Trail Lane.

The mother of Rebecca Sedwick, the Lakeland, Florida middle-schooler who jumped to her death after a vicious campaign of in-person and online bullying two months ago, made two major announcements earlier today .

Polk County Sheriff's Office detectives are investigating the shooting death of a 2-year-old Lakeland child.

A 2-year-old Lakeland boy died from a gunshot wound after his parents say he found a loaded handgun in their truck, the Polk County Sheriff's Office said Tuesday.

The Company Lab Monday announced the nationwide launch of its CO.STARTERS business model development program.