Lakeland FL

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...

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...