Lakeland

It's been a chilly couple of days in the Bay Area. Runners and walkers bundled up Wednesday morning on Bayshore Boulevard. Fortunately, the warmup has already started and temperatures are beginning to rise but for some, the damage from this week's cold snap will linger.

A 56-year-old man died Saturday evening after being hit by a car while walking to a gas station in Lakeland, investigators said.

The funeral for Lakeland police officer Paul Dunn is open to the public.

A man wanted by the Polk County Sheriff's Office for a deadly shooting has turned himself in.

The Lakeland Police Department said the public is welcome to attend funeral services for Officer Paul Dunn on Wednesday, Jan. 15 at Lakes Church (formerly known as the First Baptist Church at the Mall), located at 1010 E Memorial Boulevard in Lakeland.

A Lakeland police officer and Marine Corps veteran has passed away after crashing his motorcycle while he was on his way to work this morning, deputies have confirmed.

A Lakeland police officer who died Thursday morning in a motorcycle crash leaves behind a legacy of service to his community and his country.

Kyle Reese is facing charges of aggravated child abuse after a 2-month-old baby died in his care in December, according to the Polk County Sheriff’s Office.

Rodney Calvin Wimberly is behind bars tonight on charges of DUI manslaughter that stem from an April 2019 crash in which he was the driver and his girlfriend Shannon Oglesby was a passenger, according to the Polk County Sheriff's Office.

A Minnesota company called Leaf went before Lakeland city commissioners in hopes of convincing them that scooters are exactly what downtown Lakeland needs.

Roaring flames ripped through two North Lakeland homes early Saturday morning, leaving behind a trail of destruction. 

Family and friends of a Lakeland woman killed on Christmas Eve in a double-murder, suicide gathered at Lakeland's Lake Mirror to hold a candlelight vigil.

People are pledging to help four young children who became orphans in an act of violence on Christmas Eve.

A day before the two year anniversary of the last time he was seen alive, investigators are now offering a $10,000 reward for any information into the disappearance of Disney bus driver 35-year-old Brian Klecha.

Lakeland police have named the man they say killed two people at a home on Atlanta Avenue in Lakeland on Christmas Eve.

Four children may be spending Christmas Eve in unfamiliar surroundings after police found them at the scene of an apparent double murder and suicide, according to Lakeland PD.

Authorities are still asking the public for information on a missing Disney World bus driver – who was last seen nearly two years ago.

A fire broke out at a Lakeland barbershop during the early morning hours of Christmas Eve.

Tim and Jeff Slaten were young boys when someone murdered their mother as the two slept inside their Lakeland apartment. Almost 40 years later, DNA evidence appears to have cracked the case, ending years of fear and wondering for the Slaten family. 

An arrest was made in a murder case that occurred 38 years ago, Lakeland police announced Wednesday.