Polk County

Michael McLaughlin

Have You Seen This Man? Police Share The Many Mugshots Of Cross-Dressing Fugitive

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McLaughlin | Posted 04.19.2012

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Police are looking for a sex offender known for using multiple aliases who has been arrested numerous times while dressed in woman's clothing. Bre...

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Cops: Dad Shook Crying Son To Death For Interrupting Video Game

Posted 04.09.2012

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A Florida man is accused of killing his newborn son because the child would not stop crying while he played videogames. Jacob David Hartley, 20, ad...

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WATCH: Atheists 'Unbless' Highway 98

Posted 03.19.2012

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Atheists of Florida took to Highway 98 in Lakeland on Saturday to wash off "holy oil" put there by the Christian Churches of Polk County. For the P...

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Guns, God and Gays Are Non Starters in 2012, says Iowa Republican Chairman.

Michael J. Hunt | Posted 12.21.2011

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"When you're on a plane and it's going down, the last thing you should be concerned with is your seat location or the food selection," [Polk County Republican Chairman] McLaughlin said ... discussing the importance of candidates keeping the national debate focused squarely on the economy, as opposed to social issues such as same-sex marriage or abortion.

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Sonja Sharp

Florida School Bus Monitor Accused Of Operating Underage 'Sex Slave' Prostitution Ring

HuffingtonPost.com | Sonja Sharp | Posted 09.14.2011

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A Florida cop and a school bus monitor were arrested Thursday in connection with a child prostitution ring, Polk County Sheriff's Office said in a sta...

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James Bain, Florida Man, Exonerated After 35 Years Behind Bars

AP | MITCH STACY | Posted 05.25.2011

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BARTOW, Fla. — James Bain used a cell phone for the first time Thursday, calling his elderly mother to tell her he had been freed after 35 years...

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Abraham Shakespeare Missing: Florida Lottery Winner Disappears

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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LAKELAND, Fla. — Authorities are asking for the public's help in finding a man, who won the Florida lottery in 2006, and has now gone missing. T...

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Farting Student Suspended From School Bus

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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LAKELAND, Fla. — An eighth-grader was suspended from riding the school bus for three days after being accused of passing gas. The bus driver wro...

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