The Bartow Police Department is pledging to make changes after officers pulled over a local pastor and a K-9 unit searched his car.

A Polk County deputy and a Bartow police officer are injured after a Fort Meade man opened fire outside Bartow Lowe's on Good Friday evening.

Juneteenth commemorates the day — June 19, 1865 — when the last African American slaves in the United States learned they were free.