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The Florida Department of Transportation has imposed vehicle width limits on a portion of State Road 60 east of County Road 630 that will remain in effect for the next two months while work crews replace a culvert at Ice Cream Slough.

Polk County Utilities has issued a precautionary boil water notice for customers in the area around Coleman Road and Hatfield road near Winter Haven following a water main break.

The city's current rate is $54.45 per 8,000 gallons of water and wastewater for residential homes, which breaks down to $17.84 for water and $36.61 for wastewater.

The fact that Polk County is crisscrossed by streams that are part of seven river systems and dotted with more than 500 lakes means that some parts of the county contain substantial flood plains.

The city soon will have another $150,000 in its war chest to battle mosquitoes.

As has been the result in some other Polk County straw polls, voters in Bartow's political rally Thursday night favored Republican nominee Donald Trump to be the country's next president. He garnered 142 votes to Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton's 97.

Crowds are not normal for meetings of the trustees of the city of Winter Haven General Employees Pension Plan. That’s what board of trustees members said Thursday in a crowded City Commission chamber during their scheduled quarterly meeting.

Charges were dropped against a man accused of strangling his wife, who is still facing charges of her own, court documents show.

Honoka Ochi, 16, turned her hands and folded the paper as students at Lawton Chiles Middle Academy looked on in amazement Thursday.

Westwood Middle School won't close, Principal Todd Bennett said, but he needs help from parents.