BARTOW - Deputies are looking for whoever broke into the Polk County School Board's garage Saturday, taking about $15,000 worth of new tires and rims. ...more

June 23, 2008

TAMPA - The Polk County School Board has received a federal grant of nearly $197,000 for school-based random-drug-testing programs, officials said. ...more

June 6, 2008

A 16-year-old Kathleen High School student was accused by deputies today of cutting another student in the neck with a box cutter razor, the Polk County Sheriff's Office said. ...more

May 8, 2008

For the second time in as many months, a Lakeland elementary school principal has been arrested on suspicion of possession of child pornography, officials said. ...more

January 11, 2008

For the second time in as many months a Lakeland elementary school principal has been arrested on suspicion of possession of child pornography, officials said. ...more

January 10, 2008

Afraid Of The Truth? Regarding "Polk Needled, Noodled In Evolution Flap" (front page, Dec. 22): ...more

December 29, 2007

Public floggings hurt, even when administered by satirical sacred noodles. ...more

December 22, 2007