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Polk City Picks Clerk For Interim
Published: Friday, September 5, 2008 at 10:50 p.m. Last Modified: Friday, September 5, 2008 at 10:50 p.m. POLK CITY Assistant City Manager Pam Peterson has been named Polk City's interim city clerk after the ...
Polk County Sheriff's School Resource deputies, with the assistance of a PCSO Explorer high school student volunteer, conducted "Operation Pop Top" Saturday in an effort to combat the illegal sale of alcohol to ...
Victim Testifies In Plant City Home Invasion That Killed 1
About 3 a.m. Oct. 9, 2006, Diogenes Vazquez awoke to loud banging and a commotion in the Plant City home he shared with four other men, he said on a witness stand today.
Three Cities May Share Building Official
Published: Monday, September 1, 2008 at 5:40 p.m. Last Modified: Monday, September 1, 2008 at 5:40 p.m. BARTOW At a time when city budgets are getting stretched to limit, three Polk cities are combining forces ...
Lakeland Man Jailed, Charged In Boy's Death
Published: Saturday, August 30, 2008 at 3:10 p.m. Last Modified: Saturday, August 30, 2008 at 10:17 p.m. A Lakeland man suspected in a fatal hit-and-run accident that resulted in the death of a 14-year-old ...
Polk Driver Arrested In 14-Year-Old's Hit And Run Death
Polk County sheriff's deputies arrested a Lakeland man early today in the hit-and-run death of a 14-year-old boy.
Published: Saturday, August 23, 2008 at 10:00 p.m. Last Modified: Saturday, August 23, 2008 at 8:57 p.m. lake wales high school Amanda Moss of Babson Park has been selected for membership in the National ...
Published: Thursday, August 21, 2008 at 12:01 a.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, August 20, 2008 at 6:03 p.m. Trying to get people to agree where you can get the best ribs in Polk County is like trying to catch a ...
What does it take to make Bartow a great city? City manager George Long attended Bartow Rotary Club Wednesday to share his views on making that happen.
Prostitution sting in Bonita nets 10 men
A Bonita Springs man offered two cents to an undercover officer in exchange for sex.
Polk County to open shelters Tuesday morning
After going through three storms in 2004, the Emergency Operations Center in Polk County is a well-oiled machine.
For the most updated information regarding Tropical Storm Fay and expected impacts on Polk County, monitor your local news media or call the Citizen's Information Line at 863-534-0321 or toll-free 866-661-0228. ...
In the first meeting, Putnam will meet with officials from Hillsborough and Polk County public schools to discuss the effects rising fuel and energy costs are having on school districts as they begin a new ...
Evangelist Bentley, Wife File for Separation
Published: Tuesday, August 12, 2008 at 9:40 p.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, August 12, 2008 at 11:33 p.m. LAKELAND Evangelist Todd Bentley, who led a Pentecostal revival in Lakeland from a modest beginning to ...
Published: Monday, August 11, 2008 at 12:01 a.m. Last Modified: Sunday, August 10, 2008 at 9:12 p.m. In recent days, we have heard of the tragic mishap involving one of the Mulberry police officers and her ...
Published: Sunday, August 10, 2008 at 12:01 a.m. Last Modified: Saturday, August 9, 2008 at 10:24 p.m. NAME Ashley Thomas AGE 18 GRADE, SCHOOL PARENTS' NAMES Susan Thomas and John Samanns RESIDENCE Mulberry ...
New Charges Against Nichols Tangle Case
Published: Friday, August 8, 2008 at 10:40 p.m. Last Modified: Friday, August 8, 2008 at 10:40 p.m. BARTOW A few days before the infamous videotaped beating of a former Mulberry cheerleader, one of the teenage ...
Published: Thursday, August 7, 2008 at 12:32 a.m. Last Modified: Thursday, August 7, 2008 at 12:32 a.m. T he most disturbing aspect of an investigation into the death of Mulberry K-9 officer Sam Diesel was what ...
Mulberry to Learn From Errors in Police Dog's Death, Move Ahead
Published: Thursday, August 7, 2008 at 12:32 a.m. Last Modified: Thursday, August 7, 2008 at 7:23 a.m. The decision to temporarily suspend the Mulberry police dog program by Mayor Mark Seigler and Public Safety ...
Teen accused in cheerleader beating is arrested again
One of the teenaged girls charged in the videotaped beating of a Mulberry cheerleader was arrested again Thursday.