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City Commissioner William Twyford wanted to fire City Manager Deric Feacher at Monday night’s meeting, but a vote will have to wait. City Attorney John Murphy said that to take action on any item of substance requires a published item on the agenda. It would also take a 4-1 vote to fire Feacher. The vote was pushed back to Sept. 12.

Consumers gassing up in Winter Haven and Lakeland on Monday agreed on one thing: They're perplexed. “I don't understand how it goes down one or two pennies a week, but when it goes up, it's 20 cents,” said Montie Noble, 68, of Alturas, who was filling the tank for $2.18 a gallon at the Murphy Express station at 801 Third St. SW in Winter Haven. “There should be a regulation it goes up as slow as it goes down. It's got us trapped.”

The Polk County School Board lost a lawsuit against Polk County that it had hoped would give it the power to hold a special election for its half-cent sales tax referendum.

A Lakeland man died after his motorcycle collided with a pickup about 7 a.m. today on Walt Williams Road, the Florida Highway Patrol reported.