Lakeland

Whitaker Weinberger got a bright surprise Wednesday morning when he found family, neighborhoods and community members worked together to paint his Alexandria, Virginia, street yellow in celebration of his fourth birthday.

Whitaker Weinberger recieved a community-wide celebration for his 4th birthday. Molette Green reports.

Prosecutors are trying to determine whether a Lakeland city commissioner should be charged in the fatal shooting of a man he accused of shoplifting a hatchet from an Army-Navy surplus store.

U.S. government forecasters are predicting a near or above-normal 2018 Atlantic hurricane season with 10 to 16 named storms and up to four of them being major hurricanes.

A man that police say was being a Good Samaritan this weekend when he found a child roaming around a Central Florida park got quite the surprise from the child’s father – a beating.

Investigators say a man who was wearing baggy blue jeans managed to stuff 15 quart-sized bottles of Pennzoil motor oil and 30 DVDs down his pants before walking out of a 7-Eleven store in Lakeland, Florida, last week. Unfortunately for the thief, a Polk County sheriff’s detective happened to be parked outside and saw the whole thing happen.

A young woman who survived a massacre at a gay Florida nightclub has been killed in a highway car crash. Orlando television station WFTV reported that 20-year-old Jahqui Sevilla was driving on an Orlando-area highway early Sunday when she lost control of her car for an unknown reason. The car jumped the highway median and hit an SUV traveling in...

J.C. Penney released a list Friday of the 138 stores it plans to close in an effort to cut costs and grow sales at its strongest locations. The closures, first announced in February, represents about 13 to 14 percent of the Plano-based company’s current store count, and less than 5 percent of total annual sales. Roughly 5,000 jobs will be...

A Lakeland man is looking to have the name changed off a local lake from its current one of ‘Horney’ to honor a local war hero.

The family of a Florida teen has sued over her death at a high ropes course last summer in South Carolina.

A former central Florida teacher will be sentenced in July after pleading guilty to 37 child sex charges with three teenage students.

A sleeping passenger says he had no idea another that person in the car had been fatally shot.

Deputies in Florida say an 81-year-old man picked thousands of tangerines — 11 truckloads worth — and then sold the stolen bounty at a nearby market.