Author: WENG Newsroom

Housing numbers contine to improve in southwest Florida. This time, it's the foreclosure rate. Charlotte County's foreclosure rate stood at just over two percent in September, half of what it was the year before... Read More.

November brought a heat wave across southwest Florida, at least for this time of year. Several heat-related records were tied or broken around the region. Punta Gorda clocked in with its second-warmest November on... Read More.

Detectives want help identifying a thief. Reports show a man entered the Murdock Circle Walmart early in the morning Nov. 2 and filled a shopping cart. The sheriff's office, however, says he went behind an empty... Read More.

Investigators with the Punta Gorda Police Dept. have concluded that a convenience store clerk was shot to death before the store caught fire early on Nov. 1. The body of 18-year-old Kyle Farishian was... Read More.

The U.S. Coast Guard has called off the search for an Englewood man who was first reported missing Friday evening. 48-year-old Jeffery John Reinhardt was last thought to be aboard his 25-foot boat when... Read More.

Investigators say alcohol was involved in a vehicle crash that has a Charlotte County sheriff's deputy in serious condition at a local hospital. 58-year-old Eric Knapp was conducting a traffic stop on McCall Road... Read More.

The Florida Dept. of Children and Families is coming under scrutiny after critics say the agency has repeatedly downplayed calls to its hotline for help and failed to improve the hotline's procedures. Two recent... Read More.

The Charlotte County Sheriff's Office is dealing with a couple scams going around the area. One Port Charlotte man lost $15,000 to Allstar Enterprises and Cleaning out of St. Petersburg backed out of a... Read More.

Many southwest Florida homeowners are not out of the woods yet on their mortgages, but rising home prices are helping. The Herald-Tribune reports that nearly 20 percent of homeowners in Charlotte, Sarasota, and Manatee... Read More.

The investigation continues into vehicle burglaries from this weekend's Waterfest event at a Walgreens in Englewood. The Charlotte County Sheriff's Office reports separate break-ins from Saturday at Ann Denver Regional Park. The park served as off-site... Read More.