Republican candidates, three of them incumbents, easily won Tuesday’s five elections for seats in the Florida Legislature in districts that contain parts of Polk County. The results continue a ...

Overall Polk County students improved in two-thirds of the categories, but fell in others. See how your school did.

Tiekei Dickerson was promptly arrested by the Polk County Sheriff’s Office on the outstanding warrant and transported to the Polk County Jail. He will be held pending extradition to Lowndes County, ...

‘Earliest Indians were migrants…India has been connected to the world from the very beginning,’ says historian Audrey Truschke In her latest book, India: 5,000 Years of History on the Subcontinent, ...