BARTOW, Fla. – The Tax Collector for Polk County, Joe G. Tedder, was proud to present a check to the Polk County School Board in its Tuesday night meeting!
The 2022-2023 Kids Tag Art (KTA) program’s fundraising totals set new...
by James Coulter
Robin Curtis reached for the stars as an actress, and that allowed her to star in many iconic roles. Her most famous role was playing Vulcan Lieutenant Saavik in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock and...
BARTOW, Fla. - The Office of the Tax Collector for Polk County, (TCP), is now accepting payments for 2023 property taxes. This will allow those who owe taxes to enjoy the November discount longer.
This year, TCPC again opens the...
by James Coulter
Brian Woods works full-time as a firefighter, so he knows a thing or two about things that are smoking hot. That’s why, on the weekends, he visits local markets and festivals to sell his homemade jerky. Made...
Update: The armed carjacking suspect, 32-year-old Joshua Lee Walker (DOB 8/8/91), succumbed to his injuries at the hospital last evening and is deceased. The Officer Involved Deadly Incident Task Force for the 10th Judicial Circuit continues to investigate. The...
Sheriff Grady Judd and Bartow Police Chief Andy Ray will brief the media at 6:15 PM tonight(Monday, September 4, 2023) in Bartow near the Bartow Regional Medical Center on US Highway 98 regarding the Officer Involved Deadly Incident Task...
Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd briefed media on murder of 16 Yr Old boy by his estrange father. The PCSO Mobile Command Center is set up on the 2500 block of Old Bartow Road in Lake Wales which is...
Last night (August 18, 2023) around 7:15 p.m. the PCSO received a 911 call from the area near 3655 U.S. 17 North in unincorporated Bartow. 18-year-old David Watson of Winter Haven was driving a 2004 white GMC Canyon south on U.S. 17...
Bartow, Florida - Polk County motorist traveling S.R. 60 last Friday (August 11th at 4:22pm) got a show. The show consisted of a clearly disturbed or impaired Juan Roman Jr. walking back and forth in the roadway and median...
A Jacksonville man killed himself Tuesday afternoon, August 8, 2023, concluding an armed standoff with the Polk County Sheriff’s Office SWAT team that lasted more than four-and-a-half hours.
PCSO Crisis Negotiators tried to convince 45-year old Marquis Lynn Baker to peacefully surrender while...
