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

POLK COUNTY, Fla. - A Dundee man was arrested Wednesday after deputies found him hiding under a bed while attempting to avoid ...

A Salem man, arrested after a kidnapping incident in Salem, was transported to Polk County Jail on unrelated outstanding ...

The D.C. plane crash this week highlighted the desperate need for more air traffic controllers across the country. In Polk County, a new control tower operator academy is working towards fixing that ...

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 ...

Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd is an outspoken supporter of Trump, and he regularly warns about what he considers the threats presented by “illegal aliens” and what he calls an open southern ...

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 racketeering scheme that impacted Target stores was uncovered by the Polk County Sheriff's Office. Target lost a total of more than $177,000 from this scheme. Four suspects are accused of ...

The racketeering scheme that impacted Target stores was uncovered by the Polk County Sheriff's Office. Target lost a total of more than $177,000 from this scheme. Four suspects are accused of scamming ...

Reed said the county's jail only holds between 10 to 15 inmates, with a maximum capacity of around 65 inmates. The means staff are constantly rotating inmates to use the whole building.