Officials said witnesses reported seeing a man swimming in a lake near alligators before police arrived on scene.

A 42-year-old Florida man, Timothy Schulz, was high on drugs while he swam in a lake filled with alligators, as per police.

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A group of six high school students from the Central Florida Aerospace Academy is heading for the stratosphere— literally.

A man armed with garden shears was fatally shot by deputies in Polk County, Florida, minutes after surviving an apparent alligator attack.

A man appeared to have survived an alligator attack while swimming across a lake, then he charged deputies with a pair of ...

LAKELAND, Fla. - A man with an extensive history of methamphetamine-related arrests was fatally shot by Polk County Sheriff's ...

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A Walmart employee has been arrested and charged with grand theft after authorities say she stole over $3,000 in cash from multiple registers during her shifts throughout April and May 2025. According ...

The Florida Board of Governors appointed Sumanth Neelam and Eliot Peace to the Board of Trustees of Florida Polytechnic ...

A Lakeland man was accused of setting his house on fire while his roommates were home. The Polk County Sheriff’s Office said Eddie Thomas, 69, set fire to the group home he was living in on May 15.