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The owners of Darlynn's Darlins, Inc, a Polk City animal sanctuary, were arrested today and face charges of animal cruelty and neglect after volunteers from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals video-recorded the severe neglect of animals in the facility's car

A train derailment on Mosaic property shut down State Road 37 most of Monday while crews righted the two tipped rail cars and cleaned up the spilled phosphate rock.

Police looking for two suspects who kicked in the door a home while a woman was inside about 8 a.m. Monday in Wallace Manor.

The project is as complex as the city's chain of lakes.
That's what Karen Thompson said about the Chain Life Mural and Canal Revitalization Project. Thompson is the owner of Chain Life Winter Haven, a company that promotes the city's chain of lakes.

The driver of a pickup truck died Monday evening when a 2003 Chevy S10 collided with a semitractor-trailer that was making a U-turn at the intersection of U.S. 27 and U.S. Highway 98.