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The Florida high school football season reaches its climax Thursday night when defending state champion St. Thomas Aquinas (13-1) faces Lakeland (12-2) in a highly-anticipated rematch of last year’s ...

Here we go again. Lakeland and St. Thomas, back again playing each other in the state championship game. St. Thomas Aquinas is the most successful football program in Florida with 16 state titles, ...

Nationally ranked St. Thomas Aquinas defeated Lakeland, 34-0, in last year's Class 5A state title game. The schools face off again for the 5A championship on Thursday, Dec. 11, at FIU's Pitbull ...

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POLK COUNTY, Fla. — For the first time since 2018, someone other than Bill Mutz will soon be the mayor of Lakeland. The mayor’s spot, along with two commission seats, will be determined on Tuesday, ...

A dry summer and fall have left much of Florida in a drought, with some areas experiencing the highest level on the U.S. Drought Monitor scale. The periodic climate pattern La Niña has begun, which ...

A 6-year-old girl died after a go-kart accident at an Urban Air Trampoline and Adventure Park in Port St. Lucie, Florida. The girl was in an electric go-kart with an adult when another go-kart struck ...

BARTOW, Fla. — The Polk County School District is hoping a new state-of-the-art program can help fill the need for air traffic controllers in the county and nationwide. The past few weeks have been ...

Orlando International (MCO) and Tampa International (TPA) airports sit 90 miles apart in central Florida, connected by the often congested I-4 interstate highway. Journeys between MCO, Florida’s ...

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