LAKELAND, Fla. — "Have you ever seen a cranker colony?" Sheriff Grady Judd asked in a video posted to YouTube on Friday. Revealing a group of 11 mugshots, he said: "Now you have." The 'cranker ...

Devarjaye “DJ” Daniel, a 13-year-old boy from Texas fighting incurable brain cancer, was sworn in as an honorary deputy by ...

Beneath a graying sky that foreshadowed the hurricane to come, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd shrugged. “Never before did I think that we’d be beat up for giving people a warning and keeping ...

Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd shared on March 20 that search efforts on Lake Roy had led them to the body of Noah Gomez. The dad took his two sons, ages 9 and 12, as well as his 10-year-old ...

"They devastated the house. They gutted the house," Judd said. The suspects are also accused of stealing and selling his mother's car.

A 12-year-old boy died during a day of fishing with his brother, cousin and father on Lake Roy in Florida, Sheriff Grady Judd said. Photo from the Polk County Sheriff's Office A dad was trying to ...