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january 24
- Pence visits Western Wall amid tensions with Palestinians
- Warriors dominate All-Star rosters
- Calendar girl: Rescued pit-bull mix Ember achieves local fame
- Polk School Board approves contract, pay increase for teachers & support staff
- Former Polk school principal gets 4 years for embezzling more than $100,000
- Republican District 39 candidates Spath, Tomkow square off in Bartow debate
- Study: Less smartphone time equals happier teenagers
- Polk health experts warn extra-nasty flu season is getting worse
- McKeel shuts out Mulberry
- Lake Wales hammers Hardee, 8-0
- Girls soccer: Ft. Meade vs. Frostproof
- Fort Meade girls outlast Frostproof, 1-0
- Purvis, Magic top Swarm in overtime
- All Saints, Lakeland Christian advance to 1A-9 title game
- Temple scores 34 to lead Kings past Magic, 105-99
- DC area sniper requests a hearing to ask for lower sentence
- Editorial: A lamentable cap on the mortar boards
- Today's editorial cartoon (Jan. 24, 2018)
- Another Viewpoint: While we waste food, others waste away
- Guzzardi: Foreign labor hurts black Americans
- Cepeda: We can't let robots steal all our jobs
- Tyrrell: Good news vs. private conversations
- Letter: Take a knee from watching the Super Bowl
- Letter: Because of Polk residents, Toys for Tots a success
- Letter: Eliminating bias is up to all of us
- Class 1A, District 9 Girls Soccer
- Gourde's overtime winner leads Lightning past Predators, 4-3
- Top Democrat rescinds offer of $25 billion for Trump's wall
- Kids kept captive slowly providing information to investigators; parents barred from contacting them
- Endangered right whale spotted in Gulf of Mexico off Florida
- Inmate gets more time for threatening to kill president
- Top gymnastics doctor sentenced to 40 to 175 years in prison
- Toddler dies in bathtub when left with 3-year-old sister
- Lawyer: Hotel valet gave his $300,000 Ferrari to wrong man
- Events calendar
- Sesame on the ziti, and we couldn't be happier
- Homemade jam that uses berries to sweeten, instead of sugar
- When less is more
- Opening statements given in murder trial of man accused in beating, burning death of Lakeland man
- ‘Forever My Girl’ doesn’t stray from Southern romance formula
- '12 Strong' infuses heart into war, but doesn't dive too deep
- 'The Post' is more relevant than ever
- Peach Belgian Blonde is dry, not too sweet
- Cookin' it up for charity: Pigfest to bring some of best barbecue teams in the US to Lakeland
- Alafia River Rendezvous brings frontier life into the present in Homeland
- Elton John says upcoming tour will be his last
- Scientists successfully clone monkeys; could humans be next?
- Mayors boycott Trump meeting after sanctuary cities threat
- Pinning down the title
- Schwartz turned Eagles' defense into one of NFL's best
- Federer reaches semis to face South Korean upstart Chung
- Rambling thought about prep sports while waiting for soccer to start