A traffic stop late Tuesday night in Lakeland turned into a trip to jail for a Rockledge man after deputies discovered an ...

Lakeland’s Planning and Zoning Board voted 4-1 on Dec. 16 to block Talbot House Ministries‘ bid to relocate its homeless shelter to Memorial Boulevard, despite warnings from the organization’s ...

From ice cream to donuts, coffee and delicacies from around the world, here's a look at two dozen restaurants that added to ...

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — Marking the second day of Kwanzaa, community members celebrated self-determination on Saturday as part of the seven-day long cultural holiday. The WorldBeat Cultural Center is ...

VIVIAN FRANCE COMBEE (83), of Roland, went to be with our Lord on August 27, 2025. She is preceded in death by Charles Combee, her husband of 61 years; her parents, BH and Ruth France, all from Roland ...

“The Journey to Freedom,” photographed on April 23, 2025, memorializes the legacy of Harriet Tubman, who famously led dozens of slaves to freedom as a conductor on the Underground Railroad. Li Khan ...

Edda Fields-Black was working on a book about rice plantations when she came across the story of a raid in Beaufort that freed more than 700 slaves from Lowcountry plantations. The Carnegie Mellon ...

WITHOUT BOND TONIGHT. A PERSON IS DEAD FOLLOWING AN RV FIRE OUT IN POLK COUNTY. THIS IS THE AFTERMATH OF FLAMES OVER ON CUMBY ROAD OUT IN LAKELAND. FIRE CREWS SAY THEY FOUND THE RV FULLY ENGULFED IN ...

POLK COUNTY, Fla. — One person is dead after an RV caught fire in Lakeland on Saturday morning, according to Polk County Fire Rescue (PCFR). Just before noon, crews were dispatched to a working ...

In 1863, abolitionist Harriet Tubman guided a raid that liberated nearly 760 enslaved people working on rice plantations along the Combahee River, near Beaufort, South Carolina. Dr. Edda Fields-Black, ...

Armed with a list of questions on a legal pad and a tape recorder, Edda Fields-Black and her older sister went from house to house in Brownsville recording her family’s history – a task she was paid ...

Edda Fields-Black won the prize for her book 'COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War.' Edda Fields-Black was announced as the winner of a Pulitzer ...