Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd joins the FOX 35 News team live to talk about his push to put more power in the hands of local ...

Sheriff Grady Judd, of Polk County, Florida, says local law enforcement wants to help Immigration and Customs Enforcement ...

State leaders are seeking greater cooperation between local law enforcement and immigration agencies, but immigrant advocates ...

Florida supervisors of elections are offering offering $1,200 scholarships to college students, according to Polk Supervisor ...

A woman who runs a pet business was arrested for 16 counts of animal neglect and cruelty by the Polk County Sheriff's Office.

Beginning Monday night two eastbound lanes of I-4 will close on a roughly 7 mile stretch from east of U.S. 27 in Polk County ...

Polk County sheriff's deputies found two men asleep in a car with a 4-year-old girl inside at a gas station pump, and when the driver awoke, he fought with a deputy and bit a ...

Two men who were sleeping in a car in Polk County were arrested after one of them attacked a deputy and their police dog.

The program helps homeowners pay for elevating homes or applying other changes to mitigate risk, even in some cases ...

The announcement that the National Institutes of Health will cap funding for medical research has researchers fearful that their work will be decimated, NPR reports. The move could cost institutions ...

A Florida driver fast asleep beside a store’s gas pumps turned violent when awakened and bit a deputy’s K-9 partner on the ...

Timothy Coon was Polk County's first Black judge, a retired Air Force Reserve officer, an avid golfer, a married man of 48 ...