Jason Penrod, a former Polk County lawyer accused of diverting nearly $1.8 million from a client, pled guilty to grand theft ...

Following an internal Polk Sheriff's investigation, four detention deputies resigned in lieu of firing and three supervisors ...

POLK COUNTY. Fla. - The Sheriff’s Office is mourning the loss of a veteran deputy described by colleagues as a "beautiful ...

Polk State College's Board of Trustees voted to fire a science professor and Faculty Senate president based on a poor performance review. The professor, Bill Caldecutt, said he was singled out and ...

Polk County Sheriff’s deputies now ask everyone they encounter for place of birth, not only those arrested, as had been the ...

The Polk County Sheriff’s Office is taking a new approach to assist in enforcing federal immigration laws, allowing deputies ...

WE ALREADY MISS HER'  The Polk County Sheriff's Office is grieving the loss of one of its own deputies who served the agency ...

Authorities have identified the man who was found dead Sunday at a homeless encampment in Des Moines.The Polk County ...

POLK COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA)— The Polk County Sheriff’s Office mourns the loss of a deputy. Deputy Terra McKinnon, 45, had a “long and courageous” battle against breast cancer and died from an illness ...

Polk County officials issued a burn ban on November 25 due to unseasonably dry conditions. This is the second burn ban issued in the county for the year and is unusual for the fall season. The ban was ...

Read full article: Woman accused of throwing coffee on Florida mom and her baby in dog dispute Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd discussed a "buck naked" man found on the side of the road in Lakeland ...