A 16-year-old Lakeland High School football player today was accused of raping a fellow student as the pair walked to school Thursday morning. ...more

October 2, 2009

Lakeland police are investigating whether a 4-year-old girl was molested while playing at a public park. The girl was playing inside a tube slide with an older child Friday at Common Ground Park, 1000 E. Edgewood Drive in Lakeland, police spokesman Jack Gillen said. When she emerged from the slide, her shorts were pulled down and her underwear was on backward, Gillen said. ...more

June 15, 2009

Lakeland police said they are investigating a suspicious death this afternoon. Police found a woman's body near the Amtrak train station at 600 E. Main St. at 11:21 a.m. today, police spokesman Jack Gillen said. ...more

April 15, 2009

A 79-year-old Lakeland man with dementia, who had last been seen Tuesday evening, has been found unharmed. ...more

April 8, 2009

Investigators have detonated one possible explosive device at a city parking garage and neutralized a second device, Lakeland police spokesman Jack Gillen said. ...more

March 9, 2009

Lakeland police are searching for three suspects who robbed a restaurant Thursday night. ...more

February 20, 2009

One person was shot at a Publix warehouse in Lakeland today, and the shooter appears to have committed suicide, Lakeland police spokesman Jack Gillen said. ...more

February 17, 2009

Police are looking for the killer of a popular Lakeland resident whose body was found outside his auto body shop Monday night. ...more

December 31, 2008

A body was found today in the burned-out remains of a car belonging to the subject of a Silver Alert, Lakeland police officials said. ...more

December 30, 2008

Lakeland police are looking for the killer of a popular business owner whose body was found at his auto body shop late Monday night. ...more

December 30, 2008