Florida sinkhole to cost Mosaic up to $50 million to fix
A massive leak of contaminated water through a sinkhole at a Mosaic Co fertilizer facility in Florida will cost it $20 million to $50 million to fix, a compa...

Mosaic apologizes for sinkhole silence
Mosaic Co. officials apologized Tuesday morning for failing to inform the public in a timely manner that contaminated water from its plant had been dumped in...

Family: Tulsa shooting victim was turning his life around
An unarmed black man shot dead in the middle of a Tulsa street last week by a white police officer had run-ins with the law dating back to his teenage years ...

Polk Sheriff's Office announces arrest of internet scam s...
An Orlando man has been arrested in connection to an internet-based banking scam that swindled at least one Polk County victim.

Lakeland City Commission approves $577M budget, 82 percen...
State law required a supermajority vote from the City Commission to pass its $577 million 2016-17 budget. It beat it by two votes with a 7-to-0 decision, end...

Court papers: Suspect vowed 'bombs will be heard' in streets
Ahmad Khan Rahami vowed to martyr himself rather than be caught after setting off explosives in New York and New Jersey, and he'd hoped in a handwritten jour...

Polk residents lag in recycling, DEP data show
Recycling doesn't get the royal treatment in Imperial Polk County. Polk County homeowners have one of the worst — 57th out of 67 counties — recyc...

Polk County Sheriff's Office seeks serial robber
The Polk County Sheriff’s Office is seeking a man who has robbed the same Winter Haven gas station three times since June.

Donald Trump Jr. becomes campaign flashpoint
Donald Trump is trying to run a more disciplined campaign, going easy (for him) on slip-ups and inflammatory tweets lately. His eldest son is another story.

Polk County School District proposes no raises for teachers
Teachers would not receive pay raises in 2016-17 under a proposal made by a labor attorney representing the Polk County School District.

2016's hellish summer weather: A told-you-so climate moment?
This summer's weather was relentless and hellish, crowded with the type of record-smashing extremes that scientists have long warned about.

Peppered with questions, Wells Fargo CEO seemed taken aback
Facing bipartisan outrage from a Senate panel over accusations of employee misconduct, Well Fargo CEO John Stumpf appeared taken aback by the intensity of th...