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In Venice, the number of applicants for the City Manager position has now hit 87. They include Venice Interim City Manager Nancy Woodley as well as applicants from North Port and Charlotte County departments.... Read More.

How many pets do YOU have? At my house, it's three lazy dogs and a big-mouthed parrot. The number of pets living in a household has never been the subject of city government interest... Read More.

How do you like those roundabouts that have been put in several Charlotte County neighborhoods to control traffic and slow things down? Many people apparently DON'T like them. Now, a grassroots group says it... Read More.

Rangers at Myakka State Forest are looking for something a little out of the ordinary in their line of work: an exotic snake, one that's not a Florida native. Reports have come in from... Read More.

Eight people have made the first cut in the process to select a new Sarasota county administrator. Of the eight, only two are from out of state, and one is the former Longboat Key... Read More.

Englewood Elementary School's Eagle Run is Friday. It's the 30th anniversary Eagle Run. Kindergarten and first-graders will run at 9am Friday at the school. Second- and third-graders follow at 10 a.m.; fourth- and fifth-graders... Read More.

One of four Charlotte County teens has been arrested for egging a vehicle. Sheriff's deputies said that it happened in Deep Creek when they got a call of an object being thrown at a vehicle... Read More.

Cigarettes, beer -- and incense. That was the haul in the robbery of an Englewood store that reportedly netted the bandits more than twenty thousand dollars in loot. Charlotte County deputies say an after-hours... Read More.

A handgun at a Halloween party in Sarasota County. A real one. That's landed a Bradenton man in jail. Party-goers told deputies they wrestled a gun away from 27-year-old Joel Freed of Bradenton after... Read More.

Florida -- as a cultural destination. That's probably not how the rest of the country thinks of the state but that may change. The Sarasota Convention and Visitors Bureau is launching a 47-page insert... Read More.