Author: WENG Newsroom

If a bill proposed for the upcoming legislative session becomes law, Florida drivers would be banned from manually typing or reading texts, emails or other electronic messages while operating a car. The measure was... Read More.

The Sarasota County Sheriff's Office is asking for your help locating a missing elderly woman who left her home yesterday. Hazel Rogers lives in the 4100 block of Oakhurst Circle West in Sarasota. She left... Read More.

Christ­mas and the hol­i­days will soon be upon us and the local Wal­mart stores and Char­lotte County Sheriff’s Office will once again host Shop with a Cop. Some 80 to 100 chil­dren from sec­ond... Read More.

Florida labor officials say the state's unemployment dropped to its lowest mark in nearly four years in October with 8.5% of the workforce still hunting for jobs. In Charlotte county, the October unemployment rate... Read More.

Englewood’s Bill Truex, who won the Dis­trict 3 seat over Valerie Guen­ther in the Nov. 6 elec­tion, will be sworn in as a Char­lotte County Com­mis­sioner tomorrow. Truex will join his fel­low win­ners, Ken... Read More.

Sarasota County has hired a wildlife removal service to get rid of dozens of raccoons at Ted Sperling Park on Lido Key. The animals can be seen on picnic tables, eating out of trashcans,... Read More.

Sarasota County has hired a wildlife removal service to get rid of dozens of raccoons at Ten Sperling Park on Lido Key. The animals can be seen on picnic tables, eating out of... Read More.

Governor Rick Scott's mother has died. Esther Scott died in her hometown of Kansas City, Missouri Tuesday. She had been hospitalized since last month with an infection. Esther Scott was introduced to Floridians as... Read More.

Charlotte County Deputies have arrested a Port Charlotte man after he bought what he thought was illegal prescription drugs from an undercover deputy: Jesse Thomas Wilkes was collared after police answered his Craigslist ad that... Read More.

The Manatee County Sheriff's Office says detectives are waiting for a stabbing victim's condition to improve before they can interview him about the attack at his Bradenton homeThursday night. 35-year-old David Manley answered the... Read More.