After 37 years of teaching instrumental music, Le Mars Community Middle School band instructor Mary Kay Benton has decided it ...

Winter Haven Police Department and Polk County Fire Rescue were searching Thursday afternoon for a juvenile in Lake Roy who was swimming and disappeared in the water. Shortly before 5 p.m., the ...

While the local emergency management office offers plenty of resources, it’s up to members of the community to do their research before hurricane season begins so they can have a plan in place ...

Polk County will transfer autopsy services to the Iowa Medical Examiner’s Office, aiming to save $1 million annually. The move comes amid recruitment challenges and rising costs for the county's ...

New Tonight- A long-running TV show that follows law enforcement on the job could be coming to central Iowa. The show 'Cops' wants to partner with the Polk County Sheriff's Office. It was a topic ...

Robert Werner, 71, was pronounced dead at the scene of the home on Long Mountain Road in Polk Township around 5:46 p.m., according to a news release from Monroe County Coroner Thomas Yanac.

A man is dead after a fire Tuesday in Monroe County. Flames broke out along Long Mountain Road in Polk Township near Effort at 11:30 a.m. According to the Monroe County Coroner's Office ...

Joe Jayjack, external affairs director with the Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation, said Wendling Quarries, a drilling company in Robins, reached out to Benton County Conservation two years ago.

WINTER HAVEN, Fla. — After a multi-agency search, deputies recovered the body of a child who disappeared while swimming during a family boat day on a Polk County lake. It happened Thursday ...

OUT IN POLK COUNTY. A MISSING CHILD HAS BEEN RECOVERED IN POLK COUNTY. LAKE OUT THERE. INVESTIGATORS SAY A 12 YEAR OLD WAS OUT SWIMMING WITH FAMILY BEFORE HE GOT PULLED UNDER THE WATER.

POLK COUNTY, Fla. — It should have been a day of fun and memories for a Polk County father and three children. Instead, the day ended in tragedy. A 12-year-old drowned in Lake Roy in Winter Haven.

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