Detectives with the PCSO Organized Crime Unit, working together with the Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC), the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE), and the Florida Attorney General’s Office of Statewide Prosecution, Ashley Moody, Attorney General, conducted a comprehensive...
April Showers Did Not Rain Out Bartow Spring Fling
by James Coulter
April showers bring may flowers, and even the threat of April showers could not deter vendors and attendees from attending the Spring Fling Hop & Shop in Downtown Bartow...
United Way Celebrates Sheriff Judd as Campaign Chair at Sheriff Roundup
by James Coulter
The Honorable Sheriff Grady Judd remains vigilant in keeping Polk County safe, yet he makes enough time to assist United Way of Central Florida (UWCF) with its fundraising efforts as...
Inaugural Central Florida Food Forest Festival Brings Residents To Great Outdoors
by James Coulter
Most food festivals offer food trucks. Some offer food from farm to table. One food festival last week in Bartow not only allowed guests to enjoy great food, but also learn close hand...
Bloomin Art Festival Comes Into Bloom For 52nd Year
by James Coulter
Born in China, Jim Zhang has lived abroad in Japan for three years, in Germany for seven years, and in America where he currently resides. Living in four different countries and cultures has allowed him...
On March 4th, 2022 around 7pm a motorcycle was traveling southbound on US-17, South of Martin Luther King Boulevard, in Bartow, when a pedestrian attempted to walk across the highway and entered the path of the motorcyclist. As...
Detectives from the Polk County Sheriff’s Office Computer Crimes Unit (CCU) charged five suspects for possession of child pornography after receiving tips from the National Center for Missing and Endangered Children (NCMEC) that the suspects were possibly transmitting or...
Syfy Bartow 2022 Traveled to Galaxies Far, Far Away
by James Coulter
Most women who try to win beauty pageants try to be the "fairest of them all." However, Allison Lovelady won her title of Miss SyFy by being a villian who preys upon "pour...
*UPDATE*
On Friday, February 4, 2022 at approximately 4:00 PM, the Bartow Police Department responded to a crash in the 1000 block of Summerlin Street involving 18-year-old Nicholas Davis. Davis, who was riding an off-road dirt bike, was traveling west...
The Polk County Sheriff’s Office is currently looking for a Missing/Endangered juvenile.
16-year old Carter Culala of Bartow (Highland City area) has not been seen since he left his residence on Wednesday morning, February 9th at around 8:30 AM.
Carter...
