Sloan, who came to the United States at age 19 to attend Florida Southern College and has remained here for 37 years, serves as an unofficial Venezuelan leader for Polk County. She expressed ...

A Philippine priest was ordained as the auxiliary bishop of Melbourne to become the first Filipino bishop in Australia. Bishop Rene Ramirez, who hails from Gapan in Nueva Ecija province in the ...

NEW AT FOUR. WE HAVE JUST LEARNED THE NAME OF THE PERSON WHO DIED IN A WEEKEND CRASH IN POLK COUNTY. THE POLK COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE SAYS 26 YEAR OLD KAYLA CROMWELL WAS DRIVING ON HIGHWAY 141 ...

Polk County Judge John Flynn was publicly reprimanded for statements made during his 2022 election campaign that suggested a bias towards law enforcement. The Florida Supreme Court upheld a ...

United Way of Central Florida has partnered with the IRS to offer several free tax prep sites across Polk County.

A number of Latino evangelical churches in Florida and in the southeast United States are gearing up to protect their sacred ...

Florida is home to some 1.2 million people who are in the country illegally. Some of Wenski’s parishioners remain tenuously ...

For many faith leaders and congregants across Florida — particularly in churches with large Hispanic populations — the ...

Polk County Sheriff Grady ... have caught thousands of drivers in Florida blowing past stop signs. I-Team Investigator Katie LaGrone found that one county is preventing drivers from making their ...

Their suffering is great, and the church is suffering with them.” Quiles said his organization will lobby legislators in Washington and Florida to reinstate laws that protected sensitive spaces ...