K-9 Cat served at the sheriff's office for six and a half years, helping track down lost children, patients, missing items ...

A 22-year-old man traveling in a Mercedes is calling the Polk County Jail home after he pointed a gun at a truck during a ...

Marie Ellen Porter, 65, was the only person involved in the crash on U.S. 98, north of Socrum Loop Road West in Lakeland, the Sheriff's Office said.

The in-home caregiver fraudulently obtained power of attorney for a 78-year-old man, then asked a hospital to take him off of ...

A Michigan woman hired to care for an elderly man allegedly ordered that he be taken off life support and his body cremated — without telling his family. The post Caregiver took elderly man off life ...

LAKELAND, Fla. - A Lakeland woman has died from injuries sustained in a motorcycle crash that occurred on Wednesday, April 2, 2025. Marie Ellen Porter, 65, passed away in the hospital on Thursday ...