Lawmakers Push For Smoking Age To Change
A pair of Florida lawmakers want to up the smoking age to 21. Healthcare cost to Floridians are at the center of the push, as well as reducing the number of young smokers. There... Read More.
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Florida Man Chases Monkey For Hat, Damages Spinal Cord
Sometimes a favorite jacket or pair of socks is hard to part with but for one Florida man living in Bali, it has escalated to epic proportions. Jeff Swedenhjelm fell off his roof to... Read More.
Naples-Based Charter Airline Begins Service to Punta Gorda
Punta Gorda Airport is getting a new tenant- charter company Exec Air. The Naples-based carrier will offer scheduled service between Punta Gorda and both Fort Myers and Naples. Tickets are on sale now for... Read More.
Five Dead in Small Plane Crash
A small plane headed to Key West for the Christmas holiday crashed Sunday at the end of a runway at a Florida airport, killing five people, authorities said. The twin-engine Cessna 340 crashed shortly... Read More.
Jetty Jack’s at Venice South Jetty to Open in January
The owner of Jetty Jack’s, the snack bar at the South Jetty that’s replacing Anita’s Sandcastle, hopes to be open for business next month. Chris Johnson told the Herald-Tribune he got all the necessary... Read More.
November Unemployment Rate Ticks Up in Charlotte, Sarasota Counties
Unemployment inched up in Southwest Florida last month but remains well below last year’s levels. The jobless rate in the Sarasota-Manatee metro area rose from 3.2 percent in October to 3.4 percent in November,... Read More.
Manatee County Employee Foil’s Car Thief’s Plan
A person with a stolen car tried to register the vehicle in Manatee County before an employee realized the problem. The North River Branch was where the event took place when a customer tried... Read More.
Spann Reward Jumps To 50 Thousand
The search for Jabez Spann continues and now the reward will pay $50 thousand for information about the missing Sarasota teenager. The FBI has jumped its portion to $44 thousand, while the Florida Department... Read More.
SWFL Unemployment Numbers Up, But Improve Over Last Year
Even though unemployment numbers were slightly up in Southwest Florida in November, there are many more people working compared to the month last year. The number jumped from 3.2 to 3.4 in the Manatee-Sarasota... Read More.
Sexual Abuser Of Child Headed To Prison
A man who was convicted of sexually abusing a family member for roughly five years has been sentenced to life in prison. 56-year-old Lawrence Porath of Sarasota was found guilty of the abuse against... Read More.