Grady Judd

Several counties are emphasizing how seriously threats are being taken and highlighting their added security measures.

It allows authorities to take guns from people found to pose a “significant danger” to themselves or others. Critics say it gives the government too much power and doesn’t do enough to safeguard due-process rights.

Natasha A. Pierre, executive director of the National Alliance on Mental Illness of Hillsborough County, says that every person should do a daily check-in on their own mental state.

Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said the suspect, a 33-year-old from Brandon, was suffering from PTSD.

Grady Judd spoke about the loss of a man he considers a model law enforcement officer and about his own message on the coronavirus vaccines.

County Fire Chief Robert Weech says Joshua Colon got involved in something that did not really benefit him at all.

A Polk Sheriff's deputy is in jail for allegedly texting a fellow deputy that lawmakers on Capitol Hill should have been "executed."

Polk County officials say Shawn Fitzgerald, a high school teacher, soccer coach and youth director, possessed hundreds of pornographic images on his cellphone.

DeSantis called for local governments that attempt to defund law enforcement to be denied state money while protecting law enforcement officers from "professional agitators."

The Polk County Sheriff's office has arrested a school bus attendant for abusing children and adults in her charge. Authorities have charged 43-year-old…

An Uber driver in Winter Haven claimed self-defense after he fatally shot a man who trailed his car and tried run him off the road, authorities said…

Many Tampa Bay area law enforcement agencies are acting in what officials call an abundance of caution by increasing their presence in and around schools…