A Lakeland hotel fire has displaced guests who were staying at the facility because their homes were destroyed during last year’s hurricanes. Firefighters found a dead dog in the hotel room where the ...

Lakeland police have arrested a man they say is responsible for the death of a 67-year-old woman crossing South Florida Avenue in November. Daniel Kovacs was arrested around 1:45 p.m. Wednesday ...

Keep up with what’s happening in Lakeland with only one email a week. Sign up But the state argued that Waldon knew what he had done was wrong because he tried multiple times to destroy evidence of ...