Firefighters made major gains against a wildfire that has charred thousands of acres along Florida's Atlantic coast as police questioned a man seen tossing a Molotov cocktail into nearby woods.
Clear Springs developer Sanford Phelps is standing by his $12 million contribution to Polk Community College for a satellite campus in Bartow, even though the state Legislature decided not to provide matching funds for the project.
Polk County School Board members and board attorney Wes Bridges will meet later this month to discuss appealing a ruling by an administrative judge that would force the district to pay as much as $720,000 for failing to educate an
LAKELAND | Four Polk County delegates to the Democratic Presidential Convention still don't know whether they will be seated and their votes counted in selecting their party's nominee.
City commissioners in Eagle Lake voted 4-1 to fire City Manager Patricia Jackson on Tuesday night, but whether she'll receive any severance pay remains a question.