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Thousands of people are waking up in the Tampa Bay Area with out power. FOX 13's Kellie Cowan shares how that is impacting some schools in the area.

THONOTOSASSA, Fla. — After several days of below-freezing temperatures across Florida, farmers are finally getting back into their fields — and beginning the difficult task of figuring out what survived. Growers say it wasn’t a single cold night that caused concern, but the duration of the freeze that...

Polk County deputies have apprehended Omar Sotero-Vera, originally from Mexico and residing in the U.S. without legal authorization, following a crash in Polk City. According to a press release by the Polk County Sheriff's Office, Sotero-Vera was charged with multiple offenses, including leaving a scene of an...

The Polk County Sheriff’s Office traffic homicide unit is investigating a fatal traffic crash that occurred at 5:45 a.m. Jan. 31 on Deen Still Road at Wheeler Road in Davenport. The crash involved a Freightliner semi-truck pulling a trailer driven by a 21-year-old Georgia man, and a 2018 Nissan Sentra driven by a...

Personally, I’m excited about the new neighborhood Walmart planned for the Mulberry area. Notwithstanding the concerns of the Villagers in the Phillips Villas area. This is a beautiful neighborhood nestled in the north end of The Villages just inside a commercially zoned area. The zoned area is not new and has always...

BRANDON, Fla. (WFLA) — A nurse at Brandon Hospital celebrated a full circle moment on Jan. 21 as she welcomed her baby to the world in the same hospital she was born in and works at, HCA Florida Brandon Hospital said. The nurse, Gabriella Chandler, was born at Brandon Hospital in 2000. She serves as […]

POLK COUNTY, Fla. – A Friday morning fender-bender in Davenport turned into a multi-county investigation after a driver took off, leading to a bump in charges due to his immigration status. Polk County deputies caught up with 34-year-old Jose Valero-Colina following a rear-end collision on Lake Wilson Road. The...

DOVER, Fla. - As temperatures plunge across the Bay Area, strawberry farmers in Dover are bracing for the toll the cold could take on their crops. At Parkesdale Farms, co-owner Gary Parke and his crew have been working around the clock, walking the fields overnight and turning on irrigation systems to freeze and...

TAMPA, Fla. - Jury selection began on Monday in the trial for a former Polk County deputy charged with DUI manslaughter. Joshua Roelofs is accused of crashing into a car on the Courtney Campbell Causeway in 2022 and killing two people inside. The crash happened in the early morning hours of April 13, 2022, when Tampa...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – St. Petersburg detectives just tracked a man all the way to Illinois to put handcuffs on him, and now they’re worried he might have left a trail of victims across the Tampa Bay area. It all started back in late November when a local...