Polk County, Florida, law enforcement and school administrators are working together to hold students who make threats to ...

Polk County Public Schools has seen an alarming increase in students making online threats to either bomb or shoot up a school. In the first 28 days of school there have been 24 students arrested.

A federal judge has partially sided with the family of a Black man who was fatally shot by a now-imprisoned white Kansas City ...

Officers acting on a tip located parts of a handgun among other contraband in a 14-year-old student’s backpack at Ocoee High ...

The governor commended the response of local law enforcement agencies in the Sunshine State as reports of student arrests ...

SEMINOLE COUNTY, Fla. – A man was shot and killed Wednesday night at a Seminole County apartment complex, according to ...

By Carl Fish Hezedean Smith, who became Polk County Fire Rescue (PCFR) Chief in November 2022, resigned effective September 30, 2024. His resignation followed a critical report commissioned by the ...

Twenty-four students have started the school year in Polk County in handcuffs and kicked out of school after making threats, ...

The Polk County Sheriff’s Office says it wants to help a ‘spirited’ shoplifting suspect celebrate her birthday with ‘a nice ...

Polk County Schools are undergoing a crisis as the system reports receiving an overwhelming wave of threats against schools ...

The Polk County Sheriff's Office arrested three females and is searching for another after it says the wanted woman talked ...

The newborn is now a proud owner of a talking Sheriff Grady Judd doll while her parents got some baby essentials.