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april 20
- Fort Meade begins search for new city manager
- Time on minds of Haines City commissioners
- Lakeland babysitter to be sentenced for shaking baby to death
- Reds fire manager Bryan Price after 3-15 start
- Railroad crossing closed on Wabash
- Davenport man indicted on federal drug charges
- Early voting begins Saturday in District 39 race between Ricky Shirah and Josie Tomkow
- Polk County fire captain under internal investigation
- Celebration takes down Bartow in 1A-13 title game
- Ayarza hits walk-off single in 10th, Jupiter beats Lakeland 6-5
- Bruins beat Maple Leafs 3-1 in Game 4
- Around Tampa Bay
- Wilkinson: Democrats' 'civil war' is more civil than war
- Today's editorial cartoon (Apr. 20, 2018)
- Tyree: Should we lower the voting age to 16?
- Editorial: Things are not always what they seem
- A Polk Perspective: People, hometown charm remain Polk County's best selling point
- Malkin: Return of the feckless Chick-fil-A-phobes
- Jensen: Crackdown on Facebook would be good... for Facebook
- Letter: Support those who really stand up for us
- Letter: Stormy's account seems a little bit cloudy
- Letter: Tell history with a companion statue
- Woman suspected of killing husband, doppelganger in cross-country crime spree caught in Texas
- Florida Lottery results for Thursday, April 19, 2018
- ARRESTS in Polk County for Thursday, April 19, 2018
- Wells Fargo hit with $1B fine for mortgage, auto lending abuses
- 1 wounded in Ocala school shooting; suspect in custody
- In candid Comey memos, Trump talks of jailed journalists, 'hookers'
- Democratic Party files lawsuit alleging Russia, Trump campaign & WikiLeaks conspired to disrupt the 2016 campaign
- Finding the cause of vanishing disk space
- PEOPLE & CHANGES
- BUSINESS NEWS
- Florida's unemployment holds steady at 3.9 percent
- BUSINESS AGENDA
- Federal judge allows radiation lawsuit against Drummond Co. to go forward
- Goodwill offers suite of learning tools
- In new walkouts, students look to turn outrage to action
- ON THE MARKET: 5087 Ironwood Trail in Bartow
- ON THE MARKET: Gorgeous Georgian-style home makes statement in Bartow
- About 2,500 mourners pay respects to Barbara Bush at viewing
- Investigators look for suspect who spray-painted gopher tortoise, put concrete on its legs
- Authorities say motive in deputy killings may never be known
- Wade Davis the best closer in baseball?
- Write On!: 'Memories of Mother,' 'Winning Life's Battles'
- Good causes in Polk
- Defense says schedules show Cosby wasn't around for assault
- Control chronic pain without drugs
- Vasilevskiy proving he's more than ready for playoffs
- Packing Backpacks for Syria
- E. coli outbreak warning expands to all romaine lettuce
- Builders' best: The 2018 Spring Parade of Homes' best
- Once deemed 'unsafe' by Facebook, Diamond and Silk coming to Capitol Hill
- Man convicted of stalking ex-ballerina for decades
- Orange County deputy arrested on child porn charges
- Deputies hold vote on sheriff after Parkland massacre
- Deputies: Child, 1, hospitalized after being found in pond
- Celebration of the founding of Israel planned
- School District to hold job fair in May
- Clerk of Courts' Office earns re-accreditation
- Sentencing delayed for woman convicted in death of 8-month-old boy
- Bartow soccer star stays close to home
- Fleetwing Trial in Bartow
- Raul Castro acts like he's retiring though future unclear
- North Korea says it has suspended nuclear, missile testing
- Sessions told White House that Rosenstein's firing could prompt his departure, too
- Judge awards former Fleetwing president $3.4M in breach-of-contract suit against Lakeland company
- Lakeland Electric gets new monitoring equipment
- Students pack care packages for displaced Syrians
- New rules for visitors to City Hall