Mark Farrington has submitted a letter of retirement after an inquiry found "legitimate concerns" of harassment and a hostile ...

Lakeland Police arrested Ricardo Zelidon and charged him with fatally shooting Jessie Woullard, 45, inside his vehicle at the ...

Circuit Judge Torea Spohr, who took office in 2021, was assigned to one of six felony divisions in the 10th Judicial Circuit, ...

LAKELAND, Fla. - A 45-year-old Lakeland man, Jessie Woullard, died early this morning following a shooting at the Fast Stop ...

Less than a year after the first wildlife crossing under Interstate 4 opened in Polk County, another passage is in the works.

LAKELAND, Fla. - The Polk County Sheriff's Office is investigating a series of vehicle burglaries that occurred in a ...

It's at the Polk County Law Enforcement Memorial where officers who died in the line of duty are remembered forever, along ...

Before Lakeland became a city in the late 1970s, the area north of Canada Road and Interstate 40 was an amusement park with ...

Madalynne Brooks was one of Polk County's most influential crusaders for Civil Rights. Soon, a park will be named after her. As a member of the local NAACP, Brooks played a prominent role in ...