The Polk County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a murder-suicide that left a woman dead, her daughter critically injured, ...

Polk County Sheriff's Office Cyber Crimes detectives arrested 39-year-old Andrew "Drew" McGaffigan of Auburndale on December 17, 2025, and charged him with 30 counts of child pornography, and on ...

Polk County Sheriff’s deputies now ask everyone they encounter for place of birth, not only those arrested, as had been the ...

Jason Kenney killed his wife, Crystal Kenney, and shot his 13-year-old stepdaughter twice before killing himself, Polk ...

Essie Ward was found unresponsive in her cell at 9:30 a.m. on April 3. But an autopsy found that she had been dead for 18-24 ...

Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd is holding a press conference on Tuesday morning after a murder-suicide incident that happened overnight.

Sheriff Grady Judd said the man had beaten another man with a brick and charged deputies with the same brick after they ...

An Eagle Lake man is accused of critically injuring a three-month-old baby who is currently in critical condition, deputies say.

Polk County Fire Rescue is rallying around one of their own after he was injured during an ambulance crash on Monday. They're ...

Following an internal Polk Sheriff's investigation, four detention deputies resigned in lieu of firing and three supervisors ...