While visiting Florida's preserved marsh and walking alongside alligators and tropical birds, you might not realize that this ...

Jordan Mangum and Jessica Wheeler admitted to kidnapping Mangum's former girlfriend, slashing her throat and running her over ...

High school football is back in the Carolinas! With the 2025 season just around the corner, the Polk County Wolverines are previewed ahead of the August 22 kickoff.

Sheepgate, which operates as a yearlong recovery program for individuals battling addiction, is home to both voluntary ...

The U.S. Department of Education said it will release the billions of dollars remaining in grant funding it withheld for ...

The US Department of Education (DOE) said it will release billions in remaining withheld grant money for schools.

Florida Polytechnic University in Lakeland and Polk State College are both in the process of preparing required reports for ...

Jordan Mangum and his co-defendant, 36-year-old Jessica Wheeler, both received sentences in connection to a 2023 Des Moines ...

Last week, though, she was home, in pain and with her son, Dominick, making a quick and urgent entrance. Not long after being ...

The Florida Department of Governmental Efficiency has hit Polk County and its 17 municipalities, with a demand to provide ...

In September 2024, Chad Morgan resigned as pastor of New Harmony Baptist Church in Heflin, Alabama, and became the pastor of ...

A woman and four children told officials that a 30-year-old man exposed himself to them near their homes in Polk County.