The Plant City Senior 55 and older softball team will hold its first practice Nov. 13 at the Randy L. Larson Softball Four-Plex at Park Road and Albertsons Drive. ...more

October 21, 2009

After listening to two attorneys and about 30 citizens for four hours, the Highlands County commissioners again sided with the Venus community and said no to the National Security Training Center. ...more

October 21, 2009

Four days before a hearing about the roughly $18,000 he owed his ex-wife in child support, Robert Cecil Laird jumped to his death from the Sunshine Skyway bridge. ...more

October 13, 2009

A raccoon, a possum and a feral cat were trapped overnight in separate cages in the Lakeland neighborhood where a 74-year-old woman was attacked by a pack of raccoons. ...more

October 6, 2009

A 74-year-old woman is recovering from injuries she received after being attacked by five raccoons at her front door Saturday evening, the Polk County Sheriff's Office said. ...more

October 4, 2009

LAKELAND (AP) — A Tampa couple and an Irish tourist were shot at a Lakeland gun range after a handgun accidentally fired. ...more

October 4, 2009

They never made it to their one-month anniversary. ...more

September 25, 2009

Despite what you may hear from mainstream media or certain members of Congress, we are not political terrorists, mobsters, Nazis, haters, "astro-turfers'" well funded by a certain political group and we are not the minority. The truth is, we are ordinary American citizens. ...more

September 24, 2009

The body of a boater was found in a Polk County lake early this morning more than 24 hours after the canoe he was in capsized, pitching him and two others into the water. ...more

September 21, 2009

A 19-year-old man is accused of holding up a city meter worker and shooting at another meter worker. ...more

September 18, 2009