Paul Nutcher

Circuit Judge Angela Cowden sentenced Zephen Xaver to five death sentences on Monday for the 2019 murders of five women in a SunTrust Bank in Sebring.

Grenelefe developer Scott House has asked Polk County for permission to close West Lake Marion Road to gain an entrance to his new housing development.

The fate of the FFA Leadership Training Center in Haines City is no longer in limbo after the Florida Cabinet approved $7.45 million to purchase the campus earlier this week.

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A site plan for a big box retail store indicates Winter Haven could be getting its first Target store at U.S. 17 and Cypress Gardens Boulevard.

Polk County Fire Rescue has opened the new Eaton Park Fire Station 35 at 3409 Winter Lake Road in Lakeland.

Dundee Town Manager Tandra Davis resigns after answering allegations about the town's overdue audit, credit card purchases and a donation of laptops.

Dundee Commissioner Mary Richardson asked her colleagues last week to convene a Charter Review Committee, saying her colleagues had appointed an interim town commissioner without conducting a background check.

The workshop will include leading voices on both sides, Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo, and Dr. Johnny Johnson of the American Fluoridation Society.

The announcement comes less than a month after the last water ski show at the park in Winter Haven.