Suzie Schottelkotte

Monday's ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court opens the door for the state Parole Commission to initiate a clemency review.

Polk County sheriff's deputies arrested four employees of a Mulberry salvage yard Monday on allegations they accepted stolen citrus trailers as scrap metal without getting the proper paperwork.

A 46-year-old man is in the Polk County Jail without bond on allegations he fondled and sexually battered a 12-year-old girl several times during the past month.

A judge Friday sentenced convicted rapist Richard Delgado-Cruz to eight consecutive life terms, with a requirement that he serve at least 80 years in prison, for his part in a horrendous home invasio…

BARTOW | Xavier David Perez of Frostproof was sentenced to a maximum 75 years in prison Friday for molesting a 14-year-old girl with a sex toy under the guise of being a massage therapist.

The Florida Supreme Court denied an appeal today seeking to halt Thursday’s execution of condemned killer Eddie Wayne Davis, who is scheduled to die for the 1994 murder of 11-year-old Kimberly Ann Wa…

The Florida Supreme Court publicly reprimanded Polk County Judge Susan Barber Flood on Thursday, stating that her personal relationship with a bailiff in her courtroom “fell short of the standards of…

St. Anne Shrine near Lake Wales stands as a shadow of what it once was -— its weathered stone grotto and tile-laden altar among the few aging remnants of its hallowed past.

More than 70 years ago, a young Bartow son who aspired to be a minister died on a battlefield half a world away.

Nearly three years ago, a 19-year-old Bartow woman and her unborn daughter died when a pickup truck going 83 mph slammed into the back of their van, which was stopped at a traffic light on U.S. 27.