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Getting vaccinated for the human papillomavirus would be a requirement for all public school kids if a bill passes through the Florida legislature. Democratic State Sen. Jose Javier Rodriguez of Miami is the lead... Read More.

A veteran who calls Bradenton home has been sentenced to home detention after a guilty plea of defrauding the government. Why? Because he pretended to be blind. 71-years-old Doyle Mullins Jr., who is indeed... Read More.

An arrest was made Monday of a Venice High School football player just days before the team is scheduled to be part of a championship parade. 18-year-old Jeremy Trebbles was arrested in Sarasota and... Read More.

Proper procedure was followed. That's the word from Manatee County Sheriff Rick Wells about an officer-involved shooting that happened Tuesday night in Bradenton. A man was shot and killed by a deputy even though... Read More.

No one was injured after a two-alarm fire at a home on Siesta Key yesterday afternoon. Fire crews were called to the 1100 block of Windsong Lane around 4pm. The fire had apparently either... Read More.

The bidding for a nearly $6 million project to refurbish Venice Ave. closes early next month. According to the city of Venice's engineering department, outside analysis showed the facelift could be done in as... Read More.

State Attorney Andrew Warren says he will seek the death penalty for the man accused of killing four people in southeast Seminole Heights last year. Howell Donaldson III is charged with four counts of... Read More.

Being discharged from the hospital is normally a good thing, but for one Florida man, it meant missing the end of a sporting event he was watching on television. 40-year-old John Deandrade barricaded himself... Read More.

Former Florida Congresswoman Corrine Brown had an appeal rejected Monday by an appeals court to stay out of prison while she appeals a conviction on charges related to a charity scam. The 11th U.S.... Read More.

A Sarasota man has been charged in the beating death of a woman nearly 10 years after the fact. Delmer Smith III was first arrested after a Venice bar fight in September of 2009.... Read More.