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OUT IN POLK COUNTY. A MISSING CHILD HAS BEEN RECOVERED IN POLK COUNTY. LAKE OUT THERE. INVESTIGATORS SAY A 12 YEAR OLD WAS OUT SWIMMING WITH FAMILY BEFORE HE GOT PULLED UNDER THE WATER.

The body of a 12-year-old boy who disappeared while swimming in Lake Roy in Winter Haven was found on Thursday. Polk Sheriff Grady Judd said a man took his two sons and a nephew out on a boat to swim ...

was out on Lake Roy with his father, his 9-year-old brother Javier Gomez, and his 10-year-old cousin Gael Vasquez for a family fishing trip. “What do good dads do? They spend time with their ...

The deadline to request a vote-by-mail ballot for the upcoming special elections in Florida is Thursday, March 20. The special elections, for two U.S. congressional districts and three Florida ...

A 42-year-old man has been arrested in Florida, accused of forcing a child to steal thousands of dollars worth of fishing rods.Authorities said at least four residents in the community of ...

MONROE COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) — Crews continued battling a brush fire Wednesday that completely shut down access to the Florida Keys. Both US-1 and Card Sound Road were shut down on Wednesday as ...

Earlier this year, major moving companies including Allied Van Lines and U-Haul found in separate surveys that the gap between inbound and outbound residents in Florida was narrowing, with a ...

So the question of how to fill the gap left by eliminating the property tax remains open. One of the proposed bills includes commissioning a study to answer this question. Florida's governor speaks ...

The court has imposed no-fishing zones around the breeding colonies to prevent so-called purse seine fishing vessels, which use large nets, from catching sardines and anchovies for the next 10 years.

Since losing most of his livestock in a recent drought, herder Angelech Losoro has traded the parched lands of northwestern Kenya for the waters of nearby Lake Turkana, where he now makes a living ...