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Officials in the Venice police department need some help to guide the department through renewal of its accreditation with the FDLE, and they'll likely going to stay local. The person likely to serve as... Read More.

Amazon is looking to build a second United States headquarters, and Manatee County wants in on the action. Local homebuilder Carlos Beruff officially submitted a bid to house the headquarters on 935 acres he... Read More.

A Venice man is facing a life sentence in prison after being convicted of producing child pornography and traveling overseas to have sex with children. A federal jury found 57-year old David Paul Lynch guilty... Read More.

A strange story out of Miami saw a man approach a police officer and confess to a murder and then led the police to a body. Police are saying that 22-year-old Landy Perez Gutierrez... Read More.

A Port Charlotte man has been sentenced to seven years in prison on child porn charges. More than 5,000 images of child porn were found by police on several computers that belonged to 26-year-old... Read More.

Governor Rick Scott has made funds available to help local law enforcement on the campus of the University of Florida. A white nationalist is set to appear on campus at the Phillips Center for... Read More.

Sarasota County Fire Department Battalion Chief Bill Kocur has died following a motorcycle accident in south Georgia. He had been reported missing since leaving his family's lake house last Wednesday. Police found his body... Read More.

A Texas contractor arrested in North Port has been extradited back to Texas on charges that he cheated a homeowner out of paid-for work. Aaron Sagel was arrested earlier this summer, facing a charge... Read More.

Florida gas prices averaged $2.47 on Sunday after declining 7 cents during the past week. Locally, gas around Punta Gorda dropped nearly a dime from a week ago. The state average has declined for the last 31... Read More.

Hurricane Irma put a big dent on passenger numbers at airports across Florida, especially in our region. In September, just shy of 52,000 passengers came through Punta Gord Airport, down nearly 20 percent from... Read More.