Portions of both north and southbound traffic lanes are closed near North Crystal Lake Drive and Bartow Highway as Lakeland police officers investigate a crash involvin ... Read More

Between 2022 and 2024, Bartow recorded: 144 crashes at US Highway 98 and State Road 60 52 crashes at Wilson and Van Fleet 30 crashes at State Road 60 and Crown Avenue '?These are high-risk areas ... Read More

Jackson, 33, allegedly stole a pickup truck Tuesday afternoon from the area of Conant Street and Highway 17 South ... Jackson led Bartow police, the Polk County Sheriff's Office, and the Florida ... Read More

54-year-old Johnnie Levin died in a single-vehicle crash on U.S. Highway 98 in Bartow on Saturday, June 1. Her friend Michael Price was driving and also died in the crash. Deputies arrived to the ... Read More

Edgardo Joel Rosado Perez, 41, of South Lakeland was arrested Wednesday and charged with leaving the scene of a fatal crash. Read More

A sergeant with the Bartow Police Department is in the hospital after being struck by a minivan while responding to another wreck last night. Read More

WINTER HAVEN - A Fort Meade woman was in critical condition at a Lakeland hospital Wednesday after an early morning crash on U.S. 17 in Bartow. Kawana Nelson, 33, was taken to Lakeland Regional ... Read More