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A new whirlybird will soon be landing in Punta Gorda: When your life is on the line, every second counts. Soon, Charlotte County residents will have another rescue tool at their disposal. County commissioners gave... Read More.

Charlotte County Sheriff's detectives have arrested two Charlotte High School students in connection with eight “car hopping” thefts from unlocked cars in Deep Creek last Friday morning. Kameron Cody Long and Alyssa Nicole Coulthard... Read More.

Paramedics reportedly needed more than a half hour to free a seriously injured woman from a car involved in a collision yesterday afternoon at Webber Street and Shade Avenue. A Dodge Dakota driven by... Read More.

The Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles wants to upgrade the basic Florida plate to a design that increases readability for Toll-By-Plate and features a seven-character configuration. There are four possible designs,... Read More.

Punta Gorda Police Department say two people are going around town stealing credit cards. Police say the thefts occur when one of the two women gain the attention of the store owner/employee, while the... Read More.

If a bill proposed for the upcoming legislative session becomes law, Florida drivers would be banned from manually typing or reading texts, emails or other electronic messages while operating a car. The measure was... Read More.

The Sarasota County Sheriff's Office is asking for your help locating a missing elderly woman who left her home yesterday. Hazel Rogers lives in the 4100 block of Oakhurst Circle West in Sarasota. She left... Read More.

Christ­mas and the hol­i­days will soon be upon us and the local Wal­mart stores and Char­lotte County Sheriff’s Office will once again host Shop with a Cop. Some 80 to 100 chil­dren from sec­ond... Read More.

Florida labor officials say the state's unemployment dropped to its lowest mark in nearly four years in October with 8.5% of the workforce still hunting for jobs. In Charlotte county, the October unemployment rate... Read More.

Englewood’s Bill Truex, who won the Dis­trict 3 seat over Valerie Guen­ther in the Nov. 6 elec­tion, will be sworn in as a Char­lotte County Com­mis­sioner tomorrow. Truex will join his fel­low win­ners, Ken... Read More.