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Students who were unable to graduate during the spring but have fulfilled missing requirements with summer courses will graduate Tuesday in a commencement ceremony at George Jenkins High School.

Nearly 70,000 Polk County voters will be receiving their vote-by-mail ballots in the mail next week, said Supervisor of Elections Lori Edwards.

CSX Transportation will close Experiment Station Road in Lake Alfred to through traffic Tuesday morning for two days to repair tracks crossing the roadway between U.S. 17-92 and the UF/IFAS Citrus Research and Education Center.

The eastbound travel lane of Griffin Road just west of Pyramid Parkway will remain closed until Monday while workers monitor emergency repairs to a broken Lakeland sewer main that was discovered Thursday.

The Polk County Sheriff's Office is looking for a man accused of attacking a woman July 14 and stalking her for several months.

Jayden Moreno was 3 months old in 2006 when he suffered two skull fractures and two broken ribs. His foster mother, Norma Jean Dillard, of Lakeland, pleaded no contest in 2008 to one count of child abuse and was sentenced to 15 years of probation.

Lakeland Police say they've solved an 18-year-old cold case in the fatal shooting of a man in North Lakeland.

Most hospitals in the Polk County area scored low on Hospital Compare, the new federal rating system that looks at 64 quality measures.

An intensive review of the city's red light camera program provides little evidence the unflinching electronic eyes make Lakeland's streets safer, but support in City Hall and police headquarters remains strong based on anecdote, experience and a steady stream of citations.

Acting Police Chief Brian McNulty will leave the Haines City Police Department on Aug. 24 to become a full time professor at Keiser University.