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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.

North Port's Economic Development Division is paying off. New numbers from the City Manager's Office show that the Division has brought in over sixty-nine million dollars in economic development over the past five years... Read More.

There's a new manager in town and he's the now-ex-Sarasota County Deputy Administrator Dave Bullock. Bullock has signed a contract making him Town Manager in Longboat Key. Town commissioners were vote on approval of... Read More.

A former Sarasota County official has filed a sex discrimination suit against the county. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission says 61-year-old Susan Scott has filed the complaint, alleging that both age and sex discrimination... Read More.

It's life in prison for a love-triangle murder in North Port. A judge this morning handed down the life sentence to 36-year-old Morgan Jane Smith in the murder of Andrea Stranko in North Port... Read More.

How long will a now convicted schemer be in prison? Marian Morgan will find out in December. The Sarasota woman scammed investors out of 28 million dollars and was found guilty yesterday on 22... Read More.

The Congressman for Sarasota, Charlotte, DeSoto, Hardee and Manatee counties says he wants to stay in the House of Representatives rather than move to the other side of the Capitol Building. Representative Vern Buchanan... Read More.