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The Sarasota Police Department's body camera program is indefinitely on hold..... http://blogaudio.virtualnewscenter.com/WENG-031215-Jennings-Sarasota PD Body Cams VO.mp3 Sarasota City Commissioners voted to halt the program last night due to a lawsuit filed over the cost of fulfilling... Read More.

Support's growing in the Legislature for Senate Bill 548, which would make it illegal to smoke in your car if you're with children 13 or younger with you. Backers of the bill say... Read More.

CCSO's Economic Crimes detectives need your help identifying the man who used a stolen credit card at a Port Charlotte gas station last month. Detectives say it started with someone breaking into two... Read More.

Sarasota County's new Emergency Operations Center's open for business.... http://blogaudio.virtualnewscenter.com/WENG-031115-Jennings-Sarasota Emergency Ops Center VO.mp3 The county's gotten a lot in the new $19-million building off Cattlemen Road. the 40,000 sq. ft. structure's state of the... Read More.

North Port Police are investigating the second child kidnap attempt in less than a month. The Herald-Tribune reports the latest incident happened Monday around 1p.m. A teenaged girl reports she was grabbed... Read More.

Sarasota County officials unveiled the county's new Emergency Operatiomns Center today. The Herald Tribune reports the $18.7-million dollar 40,000 square foot facility's been designed to stand up to a Category 5 Hurricane. ... Read More.

The Charlotte County Sheriff's Office has accused an Ohio man of breaking into a home and making meth inside it. Deputies arrested the 30-year-old man Friday after finding him at the house on Barbour Avenue... Read More.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is back at Venice Beach, again. They are dredging sand from offshore to replace several miles of shoreline that have eroded over the last decade. The... Read More.

Updated fuel cost projections for 2015 from Florida Power & Light's going to be good news for customers in Charlotte, Sarasota, and Manatee counties. The utility's informed the state Public Service Comission that... Read More.

Four people were injured this morning, one of them seriously, when a van and a car collided at the intersection of SR-776 and David Boulevard in Port Charlotte. According to NBC2, the Florida... Read More.