Lakeland News

Cypress Property & Casualty Insurance Co. seeks a rate increase averaging 19.7 percent for homeowners and 11.5 percent for condo owners.

Members of a state governing board went out of their way last week to praise the University of South Florida for its cooperation in the creation of a new university in Lakeland, which requires the closure of USF's campus there.

GlyEco, Inc. said today that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire certain assets of glycol recycler MMT Technologies, Inc.

BV, have recently been involved in a project for Deep BV - Hydrography and Geophysics, providing positioning and survey services for the installation of a power cable from the Thornton Bank Wind Farm off the Belgian coast.

With barely a woof and many a sniff, police canines from around the country are gathering in Lakeland, Fla., this week to see who will be top dog.

LAKELAND, Fla. - During this Memorial Day weekend, as the country reflects on the many who have given their lives in the line of duty, hundreds gathered to remember three local heroes at Calvary Baptist Church in Lakeland.

A muck fire caused by a lightning strike outside Davenport has caused a burning smell throughout Polk County, officials with the Florida Fire Service said this week.

Despite one arrest last week, the theft of swan eggs from Lakeland area nests remains, for the most part, an unsolved mystery, Lakeland police said.

The jury at the trial of former presidential candidate John Edwards is set to deliberate his fate for a fourth day.

With barely a woof and with many a sniff, police canines from around the country are gathered in Lakeland, Fla., to see who will be top dog.

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - Concerns over an expedited timeline for opening Florida's 12th university in Lakeland were evident during a Wednesday meeting of the Select Committee on Florida Polytechnic.

The Polk County Sheriff's Office Animal Control Section confirmed Wednesday, May 16, the sixth positive rabies case in Polk County this year, with four having been spotted in the eastern part of the county.

Court records show a Miami college student intends to plead guilty to making threatening posts against President Barack Obama on Facebook.

Several small groups of Secret Service employees separately visited clubs, bars and brothels in Colombia prior to a visit by President Barack Obama last month and engaged in reckless, "morally repugnant" behavior, Sen.

With barely a woof and many a sniff, police canines from around the country are gathering in Lakeland, Fla., this week to see who will be top dog.Consider it the Westminster Dog Show of policing.

The chief of the U.N. nuclear agency says he has reached a deal with Iran on probing suspected work on nuclear weapons and adds that the agreement will "be signed quite soon.

An Oldsmar family will be one of three honored at a Lakeland church Sunday when a Marine, Army specialist and Lakeland police officer are honored for Memorial Day.

The Polk County Sheriff's Office reported as of Monday morning that 12-year-old Tyler Morr of Arcadia remained in critical condition at All Children's Hospital in St.

POLK COUNTY, Fla. - Since the beginning of the year, the Polk County Sheriff's Office has arrested 24 men for lewd acts in public parks.

The Highlands County Sheriff's Office was asking the public for help Monday in locating a teenage girl who has been missing since Thursday, April 12.