Author: WENG Newsroom

A Venice boy was shot accidentally on Monday. Darrell Moody has the details...

An investigation that reportedly uncovered a plan to distribute marijuana in three Sun Coast counties has a Nokomis man on his way to prison. Jeremy Bibley was one of seven people arrested by federal... Read More.

A civil suit against the Charlotte County Sheriff's Office will be heard this week, a new chapter in the abduction, rape and murder of a Punta Gorda mom in 2008. The suit, brought by... Read More.

Three apartments have been claimed in a four-alarm blaze at Beneva Ridge Apartments. Sarasota County Fire Battalion Chief Mike Regnier says they received the call about 2pm Friday. The single apartment fire had spread... Read More.

Three repeat offenders were arrested outside a local Kohl's, after authorities say they hid more than 5-hundred dollars in shoes in a baby stroller and left without paying. The Port Charlotte trio arrested were Sara... Read More.

Sarasota County's website is getting a makeover. Crystal Pruitt with the communications office says the new scgov.net offers a user-friendly design to provide quick and easy access to information...

New grades released for the Florida F-CAT tests are not looking good for a number of schools around the state and some on the Sun Coast. In Manatee County the number of schools earning... Read More.

City leaders in Punta Gorda are proposing a property tax increase. If approved, the millage rate would go from two-point-seven to three-point-two mils; that's about seventy-five bucks a year more for a 150-thousand-dollar property.... Read More.

One victim, one suspect, one witness -- and not much more than one day in court. With that, a Sarasota County jury convicted Roy Couran of murdering a man in Newtown in January. The... Read More.

Due to weather delays, the traffic delays anticipated on Loveland Boulevard between Midway Boulevard and Peachland Boulevard will continue another month. The work, which had been scheduled to end more than a week ago,... Read More.