The second suspect accused of stealing a pair of swans and their eggs from a Polk County mobile home community has been ...

Jason L. Pickles alleges that he did not receive care for a gunshot wound at the South County Jail. The sheriff's office ...

Members of Polk's transportation planning board seemed to want to speed up the process for the eastern toll road, but also to ...

The Polk County Commission voted Tuesday to create 75 new Fire Rescue positions to drastically reduce mandatory overtime of its first responders.

A man filed a federal lawsuit against sheriff’s deputies, saying he was intentionally denied medical care at the Polk County Jail in Florida. Saad Chaudhry via Unsplash At a Florida jail ...

The city of Bartow, Florida held a public workshop to discuss ... supplemental fluoride in public drinking water. Dozens of Polk County residents, medical professionals and advocates sat for ...

Polk County Judge ... and mentioned the Polk County Jail, calling it “Grady's hotel” in reference to Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd. Flynn, formerly a Bartow lawyer, won a five-person election ...

A Florida woman is behind bars after she allegedly attacked a man with a garden hoe for canceling plans with her. The Polk County Sheriff's Office said Melanie Davis, 47, had plans to "hang out ...

and efficiently reach Polk County and Central Florida residents to help us find criminal suspects” and otherwise fight and reduce crime, the policy says. The Sheriff's Office often posts about ...