Author: WENG Newsroom

Deputies arrested a Port Charlotte man after they say he ran over his neighbor with a golf cart. Carl Travis Martin Jr. doesn't have a driver's license, it turns out. According to a neighbor,... Read More.

A 39-year-old South Gulf Cove man is jailed after police say he broke into a home in El Jobean while the home's owner was in jail. First, the man told the homeowner's son he... Read More.

A homeless man suffered serious injuries last night as he tried to cross Stickney Point Road at US 41 and walked into the path of an oncoming westbound Honda car.Florida Highway Patrol troopers say... Read More.

Pinellas County deputies are looking for a woman who did something for which she could be charged with a second-degree misdemeanor. What she did was ride a manatee at Fort Desoto Park in... Read More.

Authorities think they got their man in a Bradenton topless bar shooting in May that left a man dead. The suspect, 23-year-old Javier Aguilar was shot by U.S. Marshals today and arrested in... Read More.

Punta Gorda police are asking for your help identifying a man who accosted a woman in a local parking lot as he tried to steal her purse. It happened recently in the parking lot... Read More.

The owner of a butcher shop set afire by someone this weekend says the store will re-open. Owners say the fire had been smoldering for an hour to 90 minutes Saturday night when someone... Read More.

Sarasota County Public schools could join more than three dozen others opposing a state amendment on the November 6th ballot. The Florida Religious Freedom Amendment would end the state's ban on giving taxpayer... Read More.

Sarasota Democrat Keith Fitzgerald has canned his new communications director after she was found to be posting sexually explicit rants on her blog. Among them, "Republicans Hate Sex," that Republicans are the party... Read More.

To the north, a Bradenton man is hospitalized in critical condition after being shot in the head by someone who left him for dead late last night. Deputues say 27-year-old Brian Musgrave was... Read More.