Polk County, Florida Sheriff Grady Judd said deputies shot and killed a man who charged deputies with garden shears and tried to grab a gun from a patrol vehicle, all after he was attacked by an ...

POLK COUNTY, Florida (WUFT) — Their shoes slipping through yellow sand, Nancy Bissett and Steve Riefler followed an unpublished graduate thesis like a treasure map. They snuck through a jumble ...

A multi-level operation, aptly named "Fool Around and Find Out," nabbed 255 suspected human traffickers, child sex predators and illegal migrants in Central Florida. The Polk County, Florida ...

LAKELAND, Fla. (WFLA) — A man armed with garden shears was fatally shot by deputies in Polk County, Florida, on Monday, minutes after surviving an apparent alligator attack. Polk County Sheriff ...

LAKELAND, Fla. (WFLA) — A man armed with garden shears was fatally shot by deputies in Polk County, Florida, on Monday, minutes after surviving an apparent alligator attack. Polk County Sheriff ...

“We have adopted, we have featured 20 pets already,” Cherie Wachter of the Humane Society of Broward County. “We’re trying to keep up with the number of goals that he is scoring, which is ...

BARTOW, Fla. (WFLA) — In a move to improve safety on local lakes, the Polk County Board of County Commissioners approved an ordinance repealing and restating the Polk County Waterway Protection Code.

Polk County residents ... for cyclist safety. The County Commission approved a design with 6-foot sidewalks and 4-foot bike lanes despite resident concerns about Florida's high cyclist fatality ...