Lakeland, Florida -- Lakeland Police are asking for the public's help identifying a man who robbed a Wells Fargo bank on the morning of Monday, May 13.

Detectives say the man walked into the bank in the 4400 block of S. Florida Avenue around 11:15 a.m. and while armed with a handgun ordered everyone to the ground.

He then took off with an undisclosed amount of money and was last seen heading south on foot.

Polk County, Florida -- A Polk County school bus driver has been arrested for allegedly forcing two students to fight outside her home Thursday.

Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd says 29-year-old Patrice Sanders of Lakeland drove a busload of middle and high school students to her house and staged a fight between two of them in her front yard.

Bartow, FL -- Timothy Carey took the stand in his own defense Wednesday and said he was at a party the night Tommy Eugene Smith was murdered.

Smith was a 37-year-old and a nursing supervisor at Lakeland Regional Medical Center when his body was found during the early evening hours of Oct. 11, 1996.
 
Smith's body was found in an orange grove off Edison and Old Berkley roads, near Auburndale. He'd been shot twice in the head and once in the neck. He had been last seen on Oct. 10, leaving his home around 8 p.m. in his Jeep.