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We can’t say any of this was unexpected — but that doesn’t make it any less ghastly. So brace yourself before reading. The body of missing 11-year-old Audrii

A Florida woman is dead after her son stabbed her over 70 times — because he didn’t like her?! Over the weekend Polk County Sheriff Gr

A 22-year-old father was arrested in central Florida on Tuesday for allegedly beating his 4-month-old daughter to death. Jacob Kubai (pictured above, m

A new video shows a shocking moment from inside the Polk County Jail with the man suspected of killing 11-year-old Audrii Cunningham.

Brace yourselves for some horrid new details in the Audrii Cunningham murder case. Last week, the 11-year-old Texas girl was repor

Justice is hopefully coming in the case of Audrii Cunningham. As we’ve been following, the 11-year-old Texas

This missing persons case ended in the most horrible way.

A 16-year-old boy is dead and his father stands accused of murdering him — with a “pretty heavy duty saw,” no less, according to Florida law enforcement officers. Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd

The remains of a nine-year-old boy have been found after a family bonding experience turned tragic.

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During an interview on "Fox & Friends," Friday, Polk County, Florida Sheriff Grady Judd weighed in on the influx of looters who are taking advantage of Hurricane Ian's devastation, urging armed Florida homeowners to take action. Well, I can tell you that I was down there with my colleague, Sheriff Marceno, this weekend.

At least 132 people have died due to Hurricane Ian, according to local officials, as the death toll continues to climb more than a week after the powerful storm tore across Cuba and the eastern United States. Search and rescue operations continue in Florida after Hurricane Ian devastated large portions of the state as a powerful Category 4 hurricane with winds up to 150 mph.  Hurricane Ian is now the second-deadliest storm in the continental United States in the 21st Century since Hurricane Katrina in 2005.The deadliest hurricane ever to hit the U.S.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Thursday signed off on an independent commission's recommendations to remove from U.S. military facilities, "all names, symbols, displays, monuments, and paraphernalia that honor or commemorate the Confederacy." "The installations and facilities that our Department operates are more than vital national security assets.They are also powerful public symbols of our military, and of course, they are the places where our Service members and their families work and live." Austin wrote in a memo to senior officials on Friday.

EXCLUSIVE: Jessica Szohr, who stars in Seth MacFarlane’s Hulu drama , has signed with Buchwald. She was previously with ICM.

filed suit in Polk County court, claiming that the Department of Corrections discriminated against him based on his gender identity, in violation of the Iowa Civil Rights Act.Vroegh’s case was the first jury lawsuit brought under the Iowa Civil Rights Act since it was amended in 2007 to include protections for gender identity. In February 2019, an Iowa jury found that the Department of Corrections had discriminated against Vroegh on the basis of sex and gender identity through its actions, and awarded him $120,000 in damages. The state later appealed the jury’s verdict to the Iowa Supreme Court, which upheld the jury’s verdict on Friday.“This is a historic victory for civil rights in Iowa, because it makes real the promise of nondiscrimination protections in employment that our legislature put in place for transgender Iowans in 2007,” Rita Bettis Austen, legal director for the ACLU of Iowa, said in a statement.

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This is beyond horrific.

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In a damning report expanding on previous findings that led to the resignation last August of former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a probe ordered by the state assembly identified a range of misdeeds.

As many as five victims – believed to be family members – were found dead around 5 p.m. Friday in Atkins, Ark., authorities announced.

A tornado ripped through three Florida communities Wednesday as snow buffeted the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern states in a flurry of wild weather, according to local reports. The "large, extremely dangerous tornado" ripped across Pinellas, Hillsborough and Polk counties, beginning just before 4 p.m.

A Florida man has been accused of contributing to the delinquency of his 8-year-old son after deputies say he had the kid tag along with him during a recent series of crimes. When Ernest McKnight III, 36, was asked by a detective why he had the child with him he replied,  “I was trying to toughen him up.

Several Florida teenagers were arrested after they allegedly attacked another teen during a romantic dispute, then ran over his mother as they fled in a van, authorities said.  The incident occurred Monday afternoon in Polk City, 40 miles southwest of Orlando.

A Florida man, wielding a machete was fatally shot by county deputies on Thursday, following an altercation with his sister, authorities said.  Deputies with the Polk County Sheriff’s office responded to an apartment on Freedom Drive in the unincorporated community of Frostproof around 9:00 p.m., according to a press release.

We’ve heard stories of disgusting acts by teachers, and we’ve heard stories of dumb criminals getting themselves caught — but we can’t ever remember hearing a story that was both at the same time.