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october 3
- Heart transplant recipient Frank Spurlin dies at 76
- Lakeland picks up 12th win, beats Bartow
- Neil Combee's name to be stripped from county building signs
- Nelson, Scott spar in Telemundo debate
- Packages with suspected ricin sent to Pentagon, Navy chiefs
- NY Times: Trump got $413M from his dad, much from tax dodges
- One dead after semitrailer falls off I-75, crushes vehicle below
- Santa Fe sweeps Victory Christian
- In Mississippi, Trump mocks Ford's claims against Kavanaugh
- Editorial: Lakeland's safety fix needs more input from residents
- Reagan: Ford was a victim, but so is Kavanaugh
- Cepeda: Promise of free college might be a mirage
- Applebaum: What will Trump's new NAFTA cost?
- Letter: Old Glory is a pleasure to see
- Today's editorial cartoon (Oct. 3, 2018)
- Prager: Leftists' contempt for middle-class values
- Letter: Opioid crisis could become a healthcare cost crisis
- Florida Lottery results for Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2018
- Elope does not mean what you think it means
- Ask Amy: Daughter feels pressured to keep secret grandfather's infidelity
- Dear Abby: Couple looking to the future differs on when to tie knot, start family
- FWC agents help bear cub shake head free from cheese ball jar
- Florida Special Forces soldier indicted for trafficking cocaine
- Police: Runaway, 14, from Ocala youth shelter raped by 6 men
- Horror difficult to erase for Indonesians as death toll from earthquake and tsunami tops 1,400
- 3 win Nobel Prize in chemistry; findings led to best-selling drug, biofuels
- Polk Sheriff Grady Judd: Auburndale man strangled wife, mother of his 4 children
- McConnell sets Friday test vote on Kavanaugh nomination
- Swiftmud holding feral hog hunts
- Fishing results: Bobby Wooten wins $10,000 at ABA Regionals
- US terminates 1955 treaty with Iran after UN court ruling on sanctions
- Events calendar
- Fall festival and Halloween events
- How to make a healthy pumpkin spice latte
- Extreme comfort food: Chicken and dumplings
- Cold Press Coffee Pumking hits the right note
- Multicultural Unity Festival is Saturday in Winter Haven
- Cardboard regatta
- Restaurant review: New Cafe Roti in Lakeland continues evolving
- Wireless emergency alert sounds across the US at 2:18 EDT
- Some eastern Florida beaches remain shut as red tide lingers
- USF's season really begins in 3 weeks
- Preps postseason to get busy in October
- Lakeland City Commissioner Michael Dunn shoots, kills man after confrontation at Vets Army Navy Surplus Store
- Florida enjoys defensive turnaround after loss
- Photos: NASCAR driver Chase Elliott at Ollie's opening in Lakeland
- Richardson, Lake Wales look to snap 8-game skid to Blue Devils
- Personal info on a work device: What's private?
- Marshall Jewelers at new Lakeland location after 30 years
- Recently uncoupled: Transitioning through the GAP
- Masses line up for deals — and NASCAR star Chase Elliott — at Ollie's opening in Lakeland
- Photos: Fatal shooting at military surplus store in Lakeland
- Around Polk County
- World-renowned program now offered at Denison Middle
- Polk teachers' union approves labor contract
- Driver told PCSO officials he didn't feel impact in crash that killed Jessica Enchaitegui Ortero, seriously injured Polk Deputy Adam Pennell