Detention officer Mario Rocha pleaded guilty to passing an envelope containing synthetic drug K2 to a Polk County detainee.

Polk County's two largest law enforcement agencies made 1.5 times more arrests for DUI this Thanksgiving week than last year.

The man was originally accused of bringing the narcotic K2 into the jail for an inmate "on multiple occasions." ...

Early signing for football came two weeks earlier this season, and seven Polk County athletes from two schools, Lakeland and ...

Following an extensive investigation, Lyons said, 14 felony warrants were issued for the arrest of the six people involved in ...

LAKELAND, Fla. — A dead bat found last week in Lakeland tested positive for rabies — making for five confirmed cases of the ...

A Lakeland resident found the dead bat in a bag among her children's toys, the Polk County Sheriff's Office reported.

POLK COUNTY, Iowa — The Polk County Sheriff's Office confirms with Local 5 several storage units were damaged in an overnight ...

WINTER HAVEN, Fla. - A new exhibition, The Best of Polk Show, hopes to highlight art from across Polk County. "One of the ...

Juliann Van Liew, currently a director with the Iowa Department of Human Services, has been named Polk County Health ...

A former Salem Police sergeant was acquitted Monday by a judge in Polk County for a drunk driving charge stemming from an ...

One person is in the hospital after fire destroyed a mobile home early Wednesday, according to Polk County Fire Rescue.