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.

The governor's office announced that the state would use emergency powers to seize land in the Everglades to create an immigrant detention center.

It sounds like an episode of "The Andy Griffith Show," but when an inmate took a flip-flip to a sprinkler in the OK County jail, it was no comedy.

AME church officials from across Florida gathered to protest a Bartow police K9 search of a local pastor's car.