LAKELAND, Fla. (CBS12) — A man was possibly bitten by an alligator after taking a swim in a gator-filled lake, threatened deputies with garden shears, and burglarized a patrol vehicle all before he ...

Overall, Lake Morton's 54 swans were in good health, except for one that was tangled in a piece of plastic wire.

Polk County sheriff's deputies responded to a call about a man with an apparent alligator bite on his arm who had climbed out of a lake in Lakeland and began acting erratically. When deputies arrived, ...

A 42-year-old man was shot and killed by Florida deputies after surviving an apparent alligator attack, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said. Getty Images/iStockphoto A man appeared to have survived an ...