A remembrance of the 10 Southwest Florida teams to win FHSAA boys and girls basketball championships from Naples and Fort Myers.

A Facebook post from the Polk County Sheriff’s Office about a cleaning lady who was accused of stealing thousands of dollars of jewelry from a customer’s home led her to be re-arrested after another ...

Homicide Investigation - Lakeland Police Department Press Release Lakeland, FL (March 5, 2026) – Detectives with the Lakeland Police Department are investigating a shooting which occurred early ...

James Duckett, a former Central Florida police officer, is set for execution for the 1987 murder of 11-year-old Teresa Mae ...

James Aren Duckett, a former police officer convicted of the rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl in 1987, will be executed by lethal injection later this month after Gov. Ron DeSantis signed his ...

STARKE, Fla. (AP) — A man convicted of fatally shooting a police officer with his own service weapon during a traffic stop ...

A Lakeland man is behind bars today following a deadly confrontation in a pool hall parking lot early Thursday morning.

Police arrested a man in connection with a shooting that left one person dead on Thursday.

Kevin Lamont Reed Jr., 34, of Lakeland faces charges of second-degree murder and tampering with evidence.

A man has been arrested and charged with murder in connection to a deadly shooting outside of a pool hall early Thursday ...

Police say two people were involved in an argument outside the pool hall when one pulled a handgun and shot the other. The wounded man returned fire.

Detectives in Lakeland are investigating after responding to a deadly shooting on Thursday.