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The state Fire Marshal's office has charged an Englewood woman with arson from a fire in early August. The fire marshal says 32-year-old Angelique Byler is now being charged with first degree arson for... Read More.

One sign of an improving Sun Coast economy: an increase in residential building permits. North Port, whose home building industry has been down for five years, reports ninety-five new residential construction permits were issued... Read More.

The Sarasota County Schools Superintendent says a bus driver who abandoned a three-year-old boy on her bus should be fired. Last month, WENG News reported the story of the boy, who didn't get dropped... Read More.

Remember the story we told you recently about the bus driver who left a three year old on the school bus? Now, the superintendent of Sarasota County Schools, Lori White says she wants the driver,... Read More.

Attorneys for the University of Idaho and media outlets are seeking a judge's decision on whether the school should make public the personnel records of a former psychology professor who committed suicide after shooting... Read More.

Another new name in the race for Charlotte County Sheriff. Forty-two-year-old Ed Pope, a former Florida State Trooper, announcing his candidacy for the Republican nomination. Pope has been name Florida State Trooper of the... Read More.

Researchers are continuing their efforts to determine whether recently-detected blooms of red algae are posing threats to Sun Coast beaches. Scientists at Mote Marine Laboratory say they're monitoring the so-called "red tide" that was... Read More.

They were already investigating one shooting when Sarasota Police were called to another. Police said they were investigating a shooting, but didn't find anybody in the 19 hundred block of Luther King Jr. Avenue around... Read More.

A Sarasota woman has been found guilty on all twenty-two counts of running a Ponzi Scheme. Fifty-one-year-old Marian Morgan convicted of running a complicated Sarasota-based scheme that took the life savings of some of... Read More.

Police say the man who apparently drowned in the Gulf of Mexico yesterday morning was a Sarasota man who had been snorkeling. New information today that the victim was 61-year-old Karl Bartholomew of Sarasota.... Read More.