Troop F Captain Jason Crites is pleased to announce effective June 1, 2026, Driver Examiner Supervisor Robert Ray Davis, badge # D059, was promoted to Driver Examiner Chief of Troop F.
Congratulations!!!
🚨 JUST IN: Florida Southern College has just created an ROTC SCHOLARSHIP in honor of fallen Captain Cody Khork, who was lost to Operation Epic Fury
Well-deserved 🙏🏻
SHERIFF GRADY JUDD: "Normally, the pictures I hold up are of bad guys. This is a hero. This man went off to war at the direction of his country."
"This is Captain Cody Khork. He's 35. He's from Winter Haven."
"He was in the U.S. Army Reserves. He was called up. He died in the early days as a result of an attack."
"His family has asked that we escort him past Florida Southern College, where he went to college."
"This man is a hero, and he died in order that we can live in a free and democratic society, and he did what was asked of him of his country."
"Once he is escorted to the funeral home, which is in Winter Haven, he will remain there until he has services this weekend, and then on Monday we will escort him to Bushnell, which is his final resting place."
"From the time he arrives in Polk County on that airplane until the time we take him to Bushnell, Captain Cody will not be by himself."
"Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, there will be a deputy standing guard because it's the right thing to do. We're proud of him."
"We're proud of all our military personnel that are standing in the gap and doing what this country has asked of them." 🇺🇸
The one who loves the princess the most is always the king.
A real man conquers worlds at work — but kneels without hesitation for a plastic crown, a crooked tiara, and a seat at a tiny tea table… because being her dad is the greatest title he’ll ever earn. 🥹
Children need their fathers. To ALL the Dads that take time for their children. 👏❤️❤️
Here’s a look at yesterday’s crash on SB I-205 near the NE 50th Ave underpass.
A jackknifed truck blocked all lanes & our maintenance crew used a push-bumper truck to move the trailer & reopen the road.
Thanks to our partners at @wspd5pio & @CCFD6 for the teamwork!
#VanWA
Metallica's performance of "Enter Sandman" at Virginia Tech Hokies' Lane Stadium received such a seismic response from the 65K strong crowd, it triggered a small earthquake!
Just saw this eye opening story ♥
Today, my housekeeper quit on me. I thought she was leaving for an extra 20 bucks with the neighbor. I was dead wrong. Tara has been working for me for 8 years. Always on time. Always keeps to herself. I'm "the professional." The one who lives in the nice neighborhood. The one with two cars in the driveway (both financed, by the way). She's the one who shows up on the bus and brings her lunch in an old yogurt container. This morning
after the kids left, Tara came up to me: "Ma'am, I need to talk to you. I won't be able to come anymore." Hit me like a ton of bricks. I thought: "She wants a raise" or "She found another house." I told her: "Tara, if it's about money, we can work something out. You know things are tight, but..." She smiled with this peace I've never known. She pulled out her phone (old, cracked screen) and showed me a picture. A two-story house, simple but finished, with a small storefront
on the ground floor that said "Grocery & Meals." "No, ma'am. It's not about money. I finished building my rental units and I'm opening my little store. Thank God for these years of work, I don't need to clean other people's houses anymore. Now I work for myself." I froze. Me, the "successful one" with my master's degree, still paying rent and owing the bank everything but my soul. She, the "help," built equity, a business, and her financial freedom on a salary I thought was "nothing."
While I was eating out to look successful, she was buying bags of cement. While I was upgrading my iPhone every year, she was pouring the concrete for her second floor. Tara left today. Left my house spotless... and my ego in pieces. The Brutal Truth: We look down on people who get their hands dirty and overvalue those who sit at a desk. Real financial smarts aren't taught in college; they're learned by people who know what every dollar costs.
Life Lesson: Don't look down on anyone. That "humble" person you see today might be building the freedom you only dream about, because they're not wasting time trying to impress anyone. Status makes you a slave. Humility makes you an owner.
He actually kept the pinky promise, This is bigger than tennis ❤️
In 2017, during a US Open press conference, a young tennis fan named Izyan “Zizou” Ahmad shyly stepped up to the mic and asked Roger Federer if he could “please keep playing for eight or nine more years” so that they might face each other when he turned pro.
Federer smiled, gave him a playful “pinky promise,” and the moment quickly became a beloved clip in tennis circles.
Five years later, in 2022, Federer surprised Zizou in Zurich and fulfilled that promise through a special meetup arranged for them to hit together on court.