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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...

Good morning, Tampa Bay. Here's what you need to know today. Skies will be mostly sunny to sunny with light northerly winds. The wind will be lighter today. Highs will make it into the mid 50s. Cold again overnight with lows in the upper 20s north and inland to low...

SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - A Mexican national was arrested in Polk County after deputies say he admitted to setting a fire under a mobile home and trying to break into a Winter Haven business. On Jan. 31, a homeowner on 11th Street West reported two incidents of arson at her...

Florida police charged ab illegal immigrant with arson after he allegedly set fires under a mobile home and broke windows at a local business.

POLK CITY, Fla. - An illegal immigrant from Mexico has been arrested and charged with a DUI after the Polk County Sheriff's Office says he drove into a concrete barrier on SR 33 North in Polk City. A witness to the crash called 911 at around 10:45 p.m. on Friday...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) – New data shows foreclosures nationwide grew sharply last year, compared to the year before. Research from ATTOM, a real estate analytics firm, shows filings jumped by 14% year over year, which translates to more than 367,000 properties in 2025. According to the report, Florida has the highest...

POLK COUNTY, Fla. – An Orlando teenager is facing multiple charges after a high-speed attempt to outrun law enforcement ended with his bike in flames on the side of the highway. On Thursday, January 29, a Polk County Sheriff’s deputy spotted 19-year-old Najier Tyrique Haines weaving through westbound traffic...

Tampa, Florida — Florida’s reputation as a winter escape is being put to the test as a surge of Arctic air settles over the state, bringing below-freezing nights, widespread frost, and even the possibility of rare snow flurries in parts of central Florida while powerful winter storms batter other regions of the...