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When Austin Welch jumped in to Peace River to save his sister last Saturday, he did it without hesitation.

Rebecca Baggett told detectives she saw three people running through the parking lot at Wal-Mart just after 3 the morning of Feb. 7.

When Dr. Willis Herman Watson arrived in Lakeland, fortified by his medical degree, plans were in the works for Morrell Memorial Hospital. It opened in 1916, providing a modern operating room where he would hone his skills before the Great War in France beckoned him overseas in 1917.

General Motors recalled more than 4 million vehicles, most of them in the U.S., to fix an air bag software defect that has been linked to one death.

The Winter Haven Police Department is looking for three suspects accused of breaking into a Winter Haven Radio Shack.

Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd will speak at Holy Cross Episcopal Church in Winter Haven at 10 a.m. Sunday morning.

A Light of Hope event to bring awareness to the disease of addiction will be held at Rotary Park in Winter Haven on Saturday.

The city's proposed 2016-17 budget passed the first of two hearings Thursday with 6-to-0 support for the $577 million spending plan that will leave property tax rates unchanged.

Officially making David Johnson the next city of manager of Eagle Lake will have to wait at least another two weeks.

Four people were indicted by a grand jury Thursday in the murder and robbery of an Auburndale man.