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Officials with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission will be running tests this weekend on a new bloom of green algae that has popped up in Lemon Bay. Charlotte County referred the matter... Read More.

Opening statements were heard yesterday in the trial of former Sarasota County Deputy Frank Bybee. The 37-year old Bybee is accused of stealing thousands of dollars from an elderly woman and then trying to... Read More.

Venice-based Agape Flights is taking more than 21,000 pounds of goods from the Suncoast over to hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico. The nonprofit received a large donation from the Midwest Food Bank of diapers, paper towels... Read More.

Three North American river otters were released Wednesday in Punta Gorda, Florida after nearly eight months in care at the Clinic for the Rehabilitation of Wildlife in Sanibel. The orphaned otters spent nearly eight... Read More.

A pair of Sarasota County attorneys have been disciplined by the Florida Supreme Court. Kevin Keenan Chase, of Longboat Key was suspended for 45 days stemming from a 2015 DUI charge and will be... Read More.

Police are continuing their investigation after a body was found washed ashore on a beach in Englewood Monday. ABC-7 reports the Medical Examiner's Office has ruled the death a suicide- a self-inflicted gunshot wound.... Read More.

Police have gone to the way back machine and arrested a woman accused of dressing like a clown and killing the wife of her future husband back in 1990. The Palm Beach County Sheriff's... Read More.

A 39-year-old man accused of molesting a three-year-old child is on the loose and the Sarasota County Sheriff's Office is asking the public for help finding him. Ronald Correa was staying with a family... Read More.

A golf cart accident at Heron Creek Golf Course in North Port resulted in a woman being taken to a hospital by Bayflite. The woman, who is described as having non-life threatening injuries after... Read More.

Premiums sold on the Affordable Care Act’s federal exchange and outside the exchange will rise an average of 45 percent in Florida this year, according to state officials. However that doesn’t mean consumers will... Read More.