A 13-year-old cancer survivor whose been making waves nationally stopped in Polk County this week where he was sworn in as an ...

Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd held a swearing-in ceremony on Friday for a 13-year-old boy battling incurable brain cancer as ...

Eleven so-called "crankers" have been charged with burglarizing and ransacking the vacant Florida home of a member of the Air Force deployed 2,000 miles away, authorities said. Polk County Sheriff ...

Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd confirmed the arrest of one of his own deputies who was on the job for less than a year. Grady said Jake Germak, 21, who was a trainee and deputy, was arrested after ...

LAKELAND, Fla. — "Have you ever seen a cranker colony?" Sheriff Grady Judd asked in a video posted to YouTube on Friday. Revealing a group of 11 mugshots, he said: "Now you have." The 'cranker ...

POLK COUNTY, Fla. — A Mexican national is behind bars awaiting deportation after Polk County Sheriff's deputies said he attempted to bite one deputy, elbowed another, kicked another several ...

A 12-year-old boy died during a day of fishing with his brother, cousin and father on Lake Roy in Florida, Sheriff Grady Judd said. Photo from the Polk County Sheriff's Office A dad was trying to ...

Devarjaye “DJ” Daniel, a 13-year-old boy from Texas fighting incurable brain cancer, was sworn in as an honorary deputy by ...

LAKELAND, Fla. — "Have you ever seen a cranker colony?" Sheriff Grady Judd asked in a video posted to YouTube on Friday. Revealing a group of 11 mugshots, he said: "Now you have." The 'cranker ...