A fire at a mobile home park north of Thonotosassa has been extinguished, but not before burning about 3 acres, an unoccupied mobile home and a pole barn, Hillsborough County firefighters say. ...more

February 24, 2009

Standing outside their burned-out house wearing clothes donated by the Emergency Care Help Organization, Larry Bunkley and Tina Henderson wondered what the future will hold. ...more

January 14, 2009

Larry Bunkley and Tina Henderson figured they had a couple of more months before they had to find a new home, with foreclosure pending on the house they shared with their baby girl off Simmons Loop Road. ...more

January 12, 2009

Larry Bunkley and Tina Henderson figured they had a couple of more months before they had to find a new home, with foreclosure pending on the house they shared with their baby girl off Simmons Loop Road. ...more

January 11, 2009

Larry Bunkley and Tina Henderson figured they had a couple more months before they had to find a new home, with foreclosure pending on the house they shared with their baby girl. ...more

January 9, 2009

A Lakeland teen was arrested Tuesday, accused of stealing his grandfather's cattle then selling them at an auction, the Polk County Sheriff's Office said. ...more

December 11, 2008

The Polk County Sheriff's Office this afternoon reported that a missing 58-year-old woman whose family says often becomes confused has been found. ...more

November 16, 2008

The wild burro wouldn't take no for an answer. We had already encountered grazing pronghorn antelope, packs of wild turkeys, prairie dogs and enough bison to render us downright blase when yet another of the enormous beasts emerged on our four-day trip through the Black Hills of South Dakota. ...more

August 29, 2008

A man died this morning after the stolen truck he was in crashed into a tree at Old Bartow Road in Winter Haven, the Polk County Sheriff's Office said. ...more

August 11, 2008

Detectives are looking for a man they say called a Mulberry business about 30 times to threaten an employee, the Polk County Sheriff's Office said. ...more

July 21, 2008