Crime doesn't pay. But it does cost Polk County Jail inmates $2 a day. ...more

November 28, 2009

Polk County authorities say Stephen Horne will have to live with one of those choices in life that can't be undone yet changes everything. ...more

November 10, 2009

Edward Morales moved on with his life after getting out of prison 21 years ago. ...more

October 29, 2009

Edward Morales moved on with his life after leaving prison 21 years ago. ...more

October 28, 2009

They never made it to their one-month anniversary. ...more

September 25, 2009

A 19-year-old man is accused of holding up a city meter worker and shooting at another meter worker. ...more

September 18, 2009

Heavy on direct and light on metaphors means two years in state prison for a man who recorded a rap song in which he threatened to kill two police officers. ...more

July 30, 2009

Polk County detectives arrested a state Department of Corrections correctional officer Monday after she tried buying prescription narcotics from an undercover detective, deputies say. Deborah Frisina, 51, works at the Zephyrhills Correctional Institution. ...more

June 23, 2009

Pills, phony bills and bogus prescriptions were found today in the pockets of a Lakeland man accused of counterfeiting U.S. currency, the Polk County Sheriff's Office said. ...more

June 11, 2009

The Polk County Sheriff's Office found a Fort Meade man reported missing early this morning. ...more

April 12, 2009