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The white cowboy hats that Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd and his deputies have been sporting recently were funded by a donor ...

Forty-four swans were collected on Lake Morton this week during the city of Lakeland’s Swan Roundup, and the veterinarian who ...

Saturday will be a month that our house has been underwater, and (the water is) finally out. But the lack of anything being ...

Avelo Airlines announced this week that it is adding Nashville as its ninth destination from Lakeland. And the city’s airport director said passenger service, now in its fifth month, is meeting the ...

City Commissioner Bill “Tiger” Read becomes emotional as he listens to people describe their damaged homes. | Kimberly C. Moore, LkldNow ...

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Nicole and Ricardo Ramirez’s kitchen following flooding from Hurricane Milton. Floodwater stayed in their Little Lake Bonny home for more than three weeks. | Kimberly C. Moore, LkldNow ...

Jennifer Atkins became emotional as she described her 78-year-old mother’s decline after having to leave her flooded home on Honeytree Lane West. | Kimberly C. Moore, LkldNow ...

A pontoon boat broke loose from its moorings on Little Lake Bonny during Hurricane Milton and damaged several homes as it banged against them. | Kimberly C. Moore, LkldNow ...

For two hours, residents of the Lake Bonny area told Lakeland city commissioners about rancid, sewage-infested floodwaters stagnating inside their homes for weeks, freckling walls with moldand ruining ...

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