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

The Polk County Sheriff's Office (PCSO) said deputies are on the scene of a fatal car crash at Powerline Road and Snell Creek Road.

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.

Students in a building located at Bartow Executive Airport are using a $280,000 simulator, typically reserved for the military and few other schools in the nation.