Law enforcement is looking into the death of an inmate after she was pronounced deceased in her cell Saturday morning.

It took 11 hours of deliberating for a jury to unanimously find the state did not prove what happened inside an Auburndale home in September was murder.

Kenneth E. Scott was found unresponsive during routine cell checks. He was being held on two counts of first-degree robbery.

POLK COUNTY, Fla. - A traffic stop that turned into a pursuit ended with the arrest of a 19-year-old Winter Haven man on ...

Some words may be mispronounced. CEDAR RAPIDS — The Linn County Sheriff’s Office will resume housing federal inmates at the jail in Cedar Rapids one year after ending its previous agreement ...

As a historic winter storm races across North Florida, Polk County should escape freezing temperatures and snowfall through Saturday. But it hasn't been this frigid in January in a decade.

As a historic winter storm races across North Florida, Polk County should escape freezing temperatures and snowfall through Saturday. But it hasn't been this frigid in January in a decade. Gov. Ron ...

Jan 6 defendantsThose with Polk County ties await possible pardons from Trump The Ledger spoke to Judd before his department hosted a news conference Wednesday morning for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.

Polk County Public Schools improved its graduation rate by nearly four percentage points last year, but the district remains in the state’s bottom 10. The Florida Department of Education this ...

The Polk County Sheriff’s Office investigated this case with the help of the Pasco County Sheriff’s Office, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and other agencies in the Tampa Bay area.