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Tropical Weather Outlook
For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico:. Satellite imagery and National Weather Service Doppler radar data. indicate that the well-defined low pressure area located about 40. miles southeast of Brunswick, Georgia, is producing only minimal. shower and thunderstorm activity at this time. The low is likely. to...
3 1/2 weeks in: still no answers to body camera videos
On May 27, 2024, a 16-year-old was brutally assaulted and tased by the Lakeland Police Department. June 7, 2024 Charges dropped against Lakeland teen whose viral video confrontation with police raised police brutality allegations. The video shows two Lakeland police officers punching Jahmal, pulling his hair, and then tasing him...
LSD arrest
This is 58-year-old Joan Cunningham of Lakeland. Joan was arrested by PCSO deputies on Wednesday morning, June 19th on a Polk County warrant from the State Attorney’s Office. Joan’s recent trouble began on May 26th, when she was arrested by PCSO deputies following a single-vehicle crash near Drane Field...
Monitoring tropical disturbance inching closer to Florida
We continue to monitor the development of a disturbance a couple of hundred miles east of Cape Canaveral, Florida. It has a medium chance of becoming a tropical system, possibly a tropical depression at best, as it will battle a pocket of dry air and limited time before its chances quickly become depleted and move over land. The tropical disturbance is moving west-northwest between 10 and 15 mph, and it will likely reach the northeastern Florida coast of southern Georgia on Friday. The next name on the list is Beryl.
Lakeland teen pilots set to compete in World Gliding Championships
In a hangar full of planes, there’s something special about the kind of aircraft Steven Tellmann likes to fly. “I took my first flight in 2019, in a glider, and since then I’ve always been hooked,” he said. A glider is a plane that doesn’t have an...
SEU Receives $1.4 Million Grant for Link Program
Southeastern University’s (SEU) post-secondary transitional program for young adult students with mild intellectual disabilities, SEU Link, was awarded a $1,499,994 grant from the Florida Center for Students with Unique Abilities (FCSUA). As a Florida Postsecondary Comprehensive Transition Program continuing grant, the funds will cover a project period of July...
Lakeland is getting downtown ambassadors
The Lakeland Downtown Development Authority is piloting a new ambassador program this summer that will put additional staff members on the city’s streets, according to Executive Director Julie Townsend. The LDDA has hired four part-time ambassadors who will report to Tony Davila, the organization’s clean and safe manager. These...
Where to see fireworks
Frostproof — Celebrate Lights on the Lake, the City of Frostproof’s Independence Day Celebration on Wednesday from 6 to 10 p.m. on the shores of Clinch Lake. The events will include food and live music from Red Hot Rooster and DJ JMoney. Fireworks will set off at 9:15 p.m., subject to the weather.
Apply TODAY for the 2024 Citizens Police Academy!
Apply here:https://www.lakelandgov.net/departments/lakeland-police-department/table-of-organization/neighborhood-services/crime-prevention/citizens-police-academy/. The Citizens Police Academy (CPA) is designed for selected community-oriented individuals who wish to learn more about their local police department. The CPA includes detailed information on police topics such as uniformed patrol, special investigations (i.e., vice and narcotics), crime scene investigation, SWAT, K9, and many other areas of interest. Also included in the curriculum is a tour of the police station, including the 911 emergency communications center, and a firearms familiarization course, which after completion participants will be given a chance to test their skills at the firing range.
Book Review – Hideaway (Devil’s Night #2)
Title: Hideaway (Devil’s Night #2) Hideaway continues the storyline of those we met in Corrupt in another dual timeline, dual POV tale. We still encounter Michael and Rika; however, the perspective shifts to Kai and Banks. From a Devli’s Night years before, to the days leading up to the current Devil’s Night we learn how these two came to know one another, secrets within their pasts, and how their paths have been connected all along. Together they work to keep secrets from one another, while both trying to figure out more about the mysterious 12th floor in the hotels owned by the Torrence family, and if it’s the hiding place of the missing member of the Torrence family, Damon.
Tropical Weather Outlook
For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico:. The National Hurricane Center is issuing advisories on Tropical. Storm Alberto, located over the southwestern Gulf of Mexico. 1. Southwestern Atlantic Ocean (AL92):. A small area of low pressure located about 250 miles east of the. northernmost Bahamas is producing...
Judge reduces sentence for Joshua Doolin serving time for Jan. 6 2021 Capitol riot
A federal judge has granted the motion for a reduction in the sentence of Joshua Doolin, a Polk City man convicted last year of crimes related to the U.S. Capitol attack on Jan. 6, 2021. The order means that Doolin could be leaving prison soon. District Judge Carl Nichols issued...
Polk County arts community reacts to Governor DeSantis vetoing cultural art grants
The arts community is rattled and shocked by Governor Ron DeSantis’s vetoing various cultural art grants. Bok Tower Gardens in Lake Wales was expecting to receive $62,000 from the state through a cultural and museum grant. The legislature had already cut the grant by 40 percent earlier this year, so President David Price says it was disheartening to learn the governor vetoed the grant in its entirety.
The first tropical storm of the season, Alberto, forms in the Gulf of Mexico
Tropical Storm Alberto, the first named storm of the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season, formed Wednesday. The National Hurricane Center said the storm will bring as much as 15 inches of rain, coastal flooding, and wind impacts to the coasts of Texas and northeastern Mexico. Alberto could strengthen slightly as its...
WHO WAS RAHAB?
Matthew 1: 5 “Salmon was the father of Boaz (whose mother was Rahab). Boaz was the father of Obed (whose mother was Ruth). Obed was the father of Jesse. Jesse was the father of David.”. Several years ago in a Bible study class we were discussing the role of...
Citizens Property Insurance sent a request for a 14% rate hike to state regulators
The Citizens Property Insurance Corporation, Florida’s largest property insurance provider, approved recommendations for an average 14% rate hike on personal property owner policies on Wednesday. The board of governors voted unanimously to send the recommendations to state regulators who will then hold a public hearing before finalizing the 2025...
Argument turns deadly after Polk County man is shot
A 21-year-old was shot and killed after an argument with another man he knew from high school, according to the Polk County Sheriff’s Office. Vincent Thomas Jr. and three others drove to a house on Northside Drive in Lake Wales around 7 p.m. Tuesday, the agency said in a news release. When they arrived at the house, Thomas reportedly got out of the car with a shotgun and confronted a 20-year-old who lived there and threatened to shoot him.
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