Author: WENG Newsroom

A number of Sarasota County’s roads are badly in need of re-paving and other repairs. Now, County Commissioners are indicating they’d like to up the road repair budget by two to three million dollars... Read More.

Opening statements set today in the trial of a North Port man accused of fatally stabbing a Port Charlotte man in 2009. David Wayne Price is charged with second-degree murder, grand theft and burglary... Read More.

Authorities have arrested a man accused of having sex with an 11-year-old girl. The girl told a deputy on April 25 that she had sex several times over the past four to six weeks... Read More.

City officials in Venice are hlding their annual Hurricane Preparations Seminar Friday morning. City marketing and communications officer Pam Johnson says they will have a number of guest speakers at this year's seminar...

Assuming rank-and-file teachers approve it, Sarasota County schools and the teacher's union have a new contract. Negotiatiors for the district and the unton recently reached an agreement on a contract for the upcoming school... Read More.

City officials in Venice are hlding their annual Hurricane Preparations Seminar Friday morning. City marketing and communications officer Pam Johnson says they will have a number of guest speakers at this year's seminar...

Police now say it was a vehicle in the wrong lane that led to a tanker truck rollover on I-75 near Jones Loop Road yesterday. The truck driver was entering I-75 from Jones Loop... Read More.

A judge in Charlotte County has lowered bail for Tampa Bay Rays minor league pitcher Matt Bush. He's being held on multiple D-U-I hit-and-run charges in an incident that happened during the Rays' spring... Read More.

A standoff between a heavily-armed fugitive and a Sun Coast SWAT team has ended peacefully. Sarasota police say it began when they located an address for 29-year-old Tauvolus Smith, who was wanted for domestic... Read More.

Only minor injuries in a crash yesterday that closed River Road not far from the radio station. Florida Highway patrol troopers say 43-year old Jose Ramos Moreno was taken to Englewood Hospital for evaluation... Read More.