One family member was killed and four others were injured when the pickup they were traveling in lost control on a curve in Fort Meade this morning, overturned and struck a tree. ...more

November 25, 2009

Pizza chef – and former swimming pool lifeguard and would-be medical imaging technologist – Katy Daniel-Rivera can't hear. Although profoundly deaf since birth, Daniel-Rivera is cooking up a lesson in the success that can be found in being positive, tenacious and dedicated to a dream. ...more

October 24, 2009

Two days after attacking a 74-year-old Lakeland woman, a pack of raccoons remained on the loose Monday. ...more

October 6, 2009

Two days after attacking a 74-year-old Lakeland woman, a pack of potentially rabid raccoons remains on the loose. ...more

October 5, 2009

Two men are hospitalized after a small plane crashed in a lake in Winter Haven this morning, Winter Haven police said. The plane, a 2005 SeaRey, crashed into Lake Otis at 10:31 a.m. after it suffered what the pilot told police was a catastrophic engine failure. The pilot, John Sugar, 43, of Winter Haven, was taken by ambulance to Lakeland Regional Medical Center. Police did not know the extent of his injuries. The plane's owner, John Curtis, 64, also of Winter Haven, was flown to the same hospital with injuries that police described as serious. ...more

September 17, 2009

Three people, including a 17-year-old who was five months pregnant and her 11-month-old daughter, were killed when the car they were in was struck on a rural stretch of U.S. 27 in Davenport on Tuesday evening. The unborn child also did not survive, the Polk County Sheriff's Office said. The driver of the car, William Coe, 21, of Haines City, is in Lakeland Regional Medical Center in stable condition. No one in the car was wearing a seat belt or restrained, the sheriff's office said. ...more

September 16, 2009

Police are seeking any information the public may have about a July 23 robbery and shooting outside a residence at 1208 W. Granfield Ave., Plant City. ...more

August 5, 2009

Winter Haven police charged a 16-year-old boy in a shooting that left a 40-year-old Plant City man seriously wounded. ...more

July 1, 2009

A Webster man man is in critical condition this afternoon after a two-vehicle accident near Richland. Ryan Holewinski, 43, was driving south on U.S. 98 around 7 a.m. today when a pickup turning onto the highway from Janmar Road drove into his path, according to a Florida Highway Patrol report. ...more

June 22, 2009

A 48-year-old Orlando woman was killed Sunday afternoon in a two-car crash that also sent three of her passengers to area hospitals. ...more

June 14, 2009