Lakeland News

Scores of marchers today are gathering in Polk County in hopes of prompting Publix to join a campaign designed to give tomato pickers decent wages and working conditions.

After Brian Henderson's threatening emails failed to reap the $5 million that he demanded from Publix, he figured he needed to deliver a "bigger boom."

MAN Team Rich Uravitch and David Hart have been covering some of the most popularRC events there are and recently, they were on the flightline of Florida Jets.

Lakeland, Fla. -- Jose Iglesias, who has not played in a game in two weeks, will see a specialist today as his stubborn shin problems threaten to place him on the disabled list ahead of Opening Day.

FARM WORKERS AND FAMILIES DEMONSTRATING THAT SOUTH SIDE NEIGHBORHOOD ARE TAKING YOU P A UP A FAIR FOOD FIGHT WITH TWO BIG CORPORATIONS.

The Nationals and Mets both got good performances from fifth-starter candidates in Thursday afternoon's Grapefruit League contest at Space Coast Stadium, which New York won, 7-5.

The grounds crew prepares the field at Joker Marchant Stadium on a beautiful, sunny but cool morning in Lakeland, Fla.

Aguilar, 25, is charged with second-degree murder for the fatal shooting shortly after midnight May 26, 2012, of Natividad Faudoa, 32, in the parking lot of DaVinci's nightclub, 105 Cortez Road, Bradenton.

The Cavanaugh Flight Museum's Douglas AD-5 Skyraider left Texas Tuesday to join the Commemorative Air Force's Boeing B-29 Superfortress "FIFI" on the CAF AirPower History Tour in Florida.

Ed Crenshaw, chief executive officer of Publix Super Markets, Lakeland, Fla., will deliver the keynote speech at the Opening Breakfast General Session at the United Fresh Produce Association's 2014 convention.

When there's only one of these planes in the world that actually flies, it's worth coming to check it out.

The Ledger of Lakeland reports 24-year-old Victoria Reyes and 48-year-old Kevin Meadows are in the Polk County Jail.

Living Waters Community Church has 18 separate "life groups" operating out of the church that meet on a weekly basis and help out in the community.

A Lakeland landmark in the making is featured in a pickup truck commercial. But there are questions over whether it's legal to advertise and make money off of something that's paid for through your tax dollars.

Feb 18, 2014; Lakeland, FL, USA; Detroit Tigers catcher Alex Avila during a team practice at Joker Marchant Stadium.

Without the swap, Castellanos might have spent his first full big-league season as a left fielder.

In a 10-city tour that ends on March 15 at the home base of Publix in Lakeland, Florida, the Coalition of Immokalee Workers stopped in Dublin, Ohio yesterday to call on Wendy's to join its Fair Food Program.

Long time Model Airplane News contributor Rich Uravitch spent the weekend on the flightline for the 2014 Florida Jets event getting the inside story on many of these impressive turbine powered jets and the pilots that fly them.

As you've probably read already on Saturday there was a collision between a light plane and a parachutist that was spectacularly captured by a local amateur photographer.

A Winter Haven man told police he stabbed his mother to death because she had been "controlling his money for too long."