Polk County Public Schools has seen an alarming increase in students making online threats to either bomb or shoot up a school. In the first 28 days of school there have been 24 students arrested.

Twenty-four students have started the school year in Polk County in handcuffs and kicked out of school after making threats, officials said at a news conference Thursday. “That is absolutely, ...

Since the start of the 2024-2025 school year in Polk County, 24 students have been arrested for written or online threats, ...

The Polk County Sheriff’s Office detectives from the Gang, Homicide, and Robbery units have arrested 19 Polk County gang ...

With students at Central Florida public schools now about a month into their classes, a fair shake of primary and secondary ...

Local authorities were alerted to the violence through new technology on the teacher’s identification badges ... Pool) Barrow County Sheriff Jud Smith said first responders were on the scene ...

For the first time, Somerset County sheriff’s deputies could soon wear body cameras. And those cameras may come with a new technology: artificial intelligence, known commonly as AI. The county ...

HAINES CITY, Fla. (CBS12) — "Kids Behaving Badly," is what the Polk County Sheriff's Office said when they received word about three teens vandalizing a clubhouse resort over the Labor Day weekend.

Bartow police say they continued following Jackson through various streets and were eventually joined by the Polk County Sheriff's Office and Florida Highway Patrol. The pursuit ended at a dead ...

CROWN POINT, Ind. (WISH) — Lake County Sheriff Oscar Martinez Jr. has issued purple and teal, star-shaped badges and patches to promote suicide prevention. In a Facebook post, the sheriff said ...