Investigators said a man found in a burning house early this morning committed suicide. ...more

February 24, 2008

Brittany Romer, 21, of Gibsonton, committed suicide Feb. 16 through compression of the neck, according to the Hillsborough medical examiner's office. ...more

February 23, 2008

LAKELAND - There does not appear to be an epidemic of blade-flavored lollipops in Polk County. ...more

February 14, 2008

A state lab has matched Michael Lee King's DNA to DNA found on the body of Denise Lee, according to documents filed with the courts. ...more

February 13, 2008

LAKE PLACID — Although the Tooth Fairy hasn't yet visited 6-year-old Ramon Castellano of Lake Placid, he was one of the first patients at the new Children's Dental Care of Highlands. The new 1,200-square-foot dental clinic where Ramon received care is located at the Lake Placid Health Department building, at 106 Main Ave. Any of the county's 15,000 children who are uninsured and Medicaid-eligible pay based on a sliding scale, which starts at no charge, said Dr. Paula Thaqi, director of the Highlands County Health Department. ...more

February 9, 2008

LAKELAND - A 66-year-old man in a wheelchair was killed Wednesday morning in a hit-and-run on East Memorial Boulevard, police reported. ...more

February 6, 2008

Investigators are trying to determine how a mother and her two young children were overcome by a Tuesday morning fire that spread no farther than a storage room at the motel where they lived. ...more

January 16, 2008

How were a mother and her two small children overcome by a Tuesday morning fire that failed to spread beyond a storage room at the motel where they lived? ...more

January 15, 2008

A Polk County Jail inmate found dead in his cell this morning is thought to have committed suicide, said Donna Wood, a sheriff's spokeswoman. ...more

January 15, 2008

Jorge Luis Fundora's dream of being a truck driver started early in his native Havana. ...more

January 15, 2008