A Polk County elementary school principal was arrested Friday after investigators found him in possession of pictures that electronically superimposed faces of young girls onto images of bodies of childlike naked women, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said. ...more

December 21, 2007

Mike Bustamante Jr. weighed 18 ounces when he arrived three months early Thursday, hours after his mother was kidnapped and burned during a Lake Wales robbery. ...more

December 16, 2007

POINCIANA - A home invasion and armed robbery led Polk County sheriff's deputies to uncover a grow house operation Sunday. ...more

November 5, 2007

It looks innocent enough, just another storefront in a busy south Lakeland strip mall, nestled between Nail Boutique and Lynn's Fish 'n Pets. ...more

October 23, 2007

A registered sexual offender who authorities say raped a 15-year-old girl after using the Internet to lure her from home was apprehended Saturday at a Virginia truck stop. ...more

October 7, 2007

William Joe Mitchell, a registered sex offender sought in connection with the abduction of a Bartow girl he met on the Internet, was arrested without incident about 11:30 a.m. today ...more

October 6, 2007

The parents of a missing girl started their day draped in television microphones, pleading with a man they had never met to free their daughter and with a public they couldn't see to help find her. ...more

October 3, 2007