Parks Superindent Casey Smithson says the park is now more easily accessable by the community. "Basically this is the ...

Memorial Day was extra somber for some neighbors living in the Christina Hammock community when they woke up to a round of ...

LAKELAND, FLORIDA — A career criminal somehow survived an alligator attack, then died in a hail of bullets by deputies ...

A Florida man was bitten by an alligator before he was shot and killed by deputies on Memorial Day, according to the sheriff’s office.

LAKELAND, Fla. (WWSB) - A man Polk County sheriff’s deputies said was exhibiting “bizarre” behavior was shot and killed on ...

A Florida man was shot and killed by deputies on Monday after they say he was armed with garden shears and acting erratically ...

Before Monday's fatal event, Timothy Schultz was arrested in April and had been released from jail less than a week ago, ...

A witness tried to throw the man a preserver. Another witness said the man growled at them when they tried to help.

Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said Timothy Schultz, 42, charged at his deputies holding a pair of garden shears after ...