Author: WENG Newsroom

The death penalty now being sought for a 19-year-old North Port man who's accused of two separate murders last year. Prosecutors say Katrelle Johnson shot 61-year-old Kenneth Ellis twice in the chest at his... Read More.

For the first time in nearly three years, the unemployment rate on the Sun Coast has dropped below ten percent. It's now at nine-point-eight percent for Sarasota, Charlotte and Manatee Counties - some 36-thousand... Read More.

A Port Charlotte woman in critical condition today after an accident in which the police say the driver was drunk. 71-year-old Judith Paulson hospitalized following the crash on Rotonda Boulevard East near county road... Read More.

Work on a Sarasota fire hydrant tomorrow means those who live nearlby will need to boil water for a few days afterward. Sarasota County will shut down a water main in Gulfgate Estates from... Read More.

Jobless numbers in Sarasota and DeSoto counties are below 10-percent for the first time in a long while. Charlotte county's unemployment rate is poised to drop below doulble digits as well. Sarasota and Charlotte... Read More.

(CHARLOTTE COUNTY) Charlotte County Sheriff's Narcotics Unit detectives Thursday arrested four known drug dealers involved in undercover drug buys last November or December. Arrested were: Michael Randall Campbell, 51, 4375 Laura Street, Charlotte Harbor Melissa Rochel... Read More.

The city of Venice needs its city manager in place NOW! That's why mayor John Holic said he and the council are on the fast track to get Edward Lavallee in place. He's the... Read More.

A Tampa man sentenced after a guilty plea in the armed robbery of two Charlotte County banks. 49-year-old Kevin Stone sentenced to twenty-four years in federal prison. Investigators say Stone held a teller hostage... Read More.

Police now say they know what a motorcycle rider was doing last weekend that caused his death. 22-year-old Henry Salem died in a Sarasota hospital after an accident while he was riding a dirt... Read More.

Students returned to school at Sarasota High School today after a rest room fire yesterday that investigators says was deliberately set. The blaze broke out in a soap dispenser in one of the bathrooms,... Read More.