Crews cut a driver from a mangled car at Mariner Boulevard and Linden Drive, a corridor with a history of severe wrecks.

Sheriff Chris Nocco called ex-corporal Donald Valverde “devious and evil” and is urging other possible victims to step forward.

Polk County deputies want help naming a shoplifter caught on camera at the Mulberry Walmart Tuesday afternoon.

Rescuers pulled hatchlings from a pool and a storm drain as Florida's turtle season stretches into October.

A Polk County inmate directed fentanyl buys from Georgia while locked up, prosecutors say, and both he and a Tampa man are now federal prisoners.

Sharon Garrett's family has farmed and lived on this Polk County land since 1947 — now a planned tollway could run feet from her front door.

A routine plate check on North 56th Street turned up cocaine, a gold-plated rifle and a handcuff key, deputies say.

Bobby Mwaten allegedly stashed his unregistered Ford's plate in a backpack before deputies caught up with him on MLK Boulevard.

Michael Curry hid from Tampa Police inside a kitchen cabinet with fentanyl and cash, but a raid uncovered nine guns and a machinegun switch.

The Jacksonville pop-punk band returns to the festival it once played as up-and-comers, now 23 years after Ocean Avenue.

A $2 slot machine paid out over $1.1 million on Saturday — the casino's seventh seven-figure hit of 2026, all on the same game line.

A civilian was found dead inside a home outside Inverness after firefighters knocked down a room fire in minutes. Investigators want doorbell and camera footage from the morning of the blaze.

Andre Bankston faces four counts of lewd or lascivious battery, and HCSO says his whereabouts are unknown.