LAKELAND - A dump truck driver involved in a fatal hit-and-run accident has turned himself in to police, investigators said. ...more

February 7, 2008

LAKELAND - A Florida Southern College student found dead in his apartment Saturday night from an apparent spleen injury might have suffered the injury while participating in a fraternity event at the college, Lakeland police said today. ...more

January 28, 2008

LAKELAND - A 14-year-old girl was hospitalized this morning after she was bitten by a police dog accidentally released from his handler's vehicle, police said. ...more

January 18, 2008

A man is in custody after a Lakeland police officer shot at him this afternoon, said a Lakeland Police Department spokesman. ...more

January 10, 2008

Copper-wire thefts from Lakeland electrical substations peaked over the holidays, prompting police to ask the public for help in preventing the crimes. ...more

January 5, 2008

LAKELAND - An afternoon standoff in a quiet north Lakeland neighborhood ended peacefully with the arrest of a fugitive who escaped from a police car after an arrest several months ago, Lakeland police said. ...more

December 19, 2007

AVON PARK — On Sept. 26, Luther Tyrone Golliday was gunned down in the parking lot of a BP gas station, located at 835 W. Memorial Blvd., in Lakeland. He was transported to Lakeland Regional Medical Center, where Golliday was pronounced dead at age 24. An Avon Park man, James Walter Blackwell III, 20, of 904 S. Florida Ave., was arrested Friday after a grand jury in Polk County indicted him on a charge of first-degree murder in the shooting death of Golliday. ...more

December 12, 2007

LAKELAND - The biological father of a Lakeland teen facing weapons and child pornography charges was arrested on drug charges late Thursday. ...more

November 2, 2007

The Lakeland Police Department is investigating allegations of sexual abuse involving middle school and high school students who have attended First Baptist Church at the Mall. ...more

October 29, 2007

The Lakeland Police Department is conducting an ongoing criminal investigation into allegations of abuse of middle school to high school aged students who attend The First Baptist Church at the Mall, or who have attended the church in the past, according to Lakeland police. ...more

October 28, 2007