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UPDATE On Armed Suspect Shot At Polk County Sheriffs Office Deputies In Davenport This Morning PCSO Press Release: The following is a recap from Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd's news conference Thursday afternoon, February 7, 2019, about the deputy involved shooting at 252 Regency Street in Davenport. 20-year-old Zachary Stinson…

PCSO Conducting Deputy-Involved Shooting Investigation in Dundee The Polk County Sheriff's Office is conducting a deputy-involved shooting that occurred in Dundee around 10:20 a.m. on Friday, June 1, 2018. Preliminary information so far is as follows: Around 10:00 a.m. this morning, two PCSO Computer Crimes detectives responded to 203 8th…

Daytona Beach, FL - Investigators say the  55-year-old Lake City man who drove his burning van to the Daytona Beach Police Department had a history of mental illnes.   DBPD Public Information Officer Messod Bendayan says the challenge...

Jacksonvilles Mental Health Offender Program expands to provide care for 40 mental health offenders and hire more staff with $1.3 million influx.

PALM COAST - A cry for help or a final resort? For the third time in the last six months, the same juvenile has been saved from an attempt to jump off of an I-95 overpass. Traffic was shut down on the Palm Coast Parkway overpass, which towers above the...

Flagler County Sheriff's deputies and members of the Palm Coast Fire Department late talked a 17-year-old girl down from the I-95 overpass.

Mental Health: Columbine, Sandy Hook, Marjory Stoneman Douglas - school shootings rooted in mental illness

Hopeless children: students who have suicidal thoughts, hear voices, and want to harm themselves or others.

Polk County Sheriffs detectives say John Smith stomped to death fellow inmate Shaun Seaman at the Polk County Jail on May 13. Both were on suicide watch in the mental health unit.

Floridas population has increased by about 22% to 21.5 million people, but the number of people being Baker Acted has skyrocketed by 121%.