Lakeland News

Polk's Nature Discovery Center, located at Circle B Bar Reserve in Lakeland, will host several nature-based programs this month.

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Protestors rallied at a Tea Party today on a busy Pensacola intersection. The protestors set up shop on the corner of Creighton Road And Ninth Avenue.

Authorities in Lakeland say they have located a 78-year-old Alzheimer's patient who walked away from his home and did not return.

Published: Friday, July 3, 2009 at 12:21 p.m. Last Modified: Friday, July 3, 2009 at 12:21 p.m. AUBURNDALE A Lakeland man was taken to Lakeland Regional Medical Center in critical condition after a vehicle accident at U.S. 92 and the Polk Parkway Thursday morning, the Florida Highway Patrol said in a report.

A Lakeland teen convicted in the videotaped beating of a central Florida classmate has been arrested for violating her probation.

Gently priced tickets will be sold at the Polk box office for fans of " My Little Chickadee ," starring Mae West and W.C. Fields.

Lakeland Police need your help in finding Fernando Soliz, 37, who allegedly beat someone with a baseball bat.

Four runners with the Lakeland PAL track and field club captured AAU national titles during the June 28 weekend in Clearwater.

Lakeland police have arrested a suspect in the carjacking of a vehicle with a Winter Haven police detective as a victim.

Published: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 at 8:56 p.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 at 8:56 p.m. BARTOW A 34-year-old Polk City man was sentenced Tuesday to 15 years in prison for the drowning death last year of William Joseph Hough.

The East Lakeland Lightning won the AAU 8-and-under national title last week at Disney's Wide World of Sports.

Published: Monday, June 29, 2009 at 12:01 a.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 at 2:52 a.m. Beginning Monday, the City of Lakeland will begin construction of brick crosswalks on West Lake Parker Drive at Bella Vista Street and Tropical Way.

Lew Carrier has low usage toilets and energy saving shower heads that lower pressure when he's applying soap.

Published: Monday, June 29, 2009 at 2:39 p.m. Last Modified: Monday, June 29, 2009 at 2:39 p.m. LAKELAND A man sought in a baseball bat attack at a Lakeland residence has been arrested in Osceola County.

Published: Friday, June 26, 2009 at 12:01 a.m. Last Modified: Saturday, June 27, 2009 at 3:09 a.m. LAKELAND A woman, her two daughters and another adult were arrested Friday afternoon and charged with running a drug trafficking operation from their North Lakeland home, the Sheriff's Office said.

Polk County Sheriff's deputies reported today they found a homemade bomb, a boa constrictor and a variety of guns when they broke up a north Lakeland methamphetamine lab on Friday.

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Published: Friday, June 26, 2009 at 10:12 p.m. Last Modified: Friday, June 26, 2009 at 10:12 p.m. LAKELAND If City Hall is any barometer, the recession that began in 2007 has reached its most painful stage so far.

Published: Thursday, June 25, 2009 at 12:01 a.m. Last Modified: Friday, June 26, 2009 at 7:16 a.m. LAKELAND David and Kelly Richter of Winter Haven learned about Michael Jackson's death Thursday evening as they dined at Palace Pizza in downtown Lakeland.