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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.

A woman who said she thought she had struck an animal with her car has now turned herself in in a hit-and-run fatality. Police say 41-year-old Stephanie Saputo told them she didn't realize until... Read More.

The search for a new Sarasota County Commissioner has been ongoing for months with no final candidate in sight. Now, County Commissioners are wondering why the headhunter firm they hired to help fill the... Read More.

A home health nurse in Sarasota has been arrested for allegedly getting drunk and attacking her paraplegic client. Forty-nine-year-old Debra Jo Given of Sarasota is charged with abuse of a disabled adult. An arrest... Read More.

(CHARLOTTE COUNTY) Charlotte County Sheriff's Narcotics Unit detectives in two separate undercover drug buys Tuesday arrested an Oxycodone Trafficker and an Oxycodone Dealer. Darren Alan Blades, 23, 21970 Cellini Ave., Port Charlotte, sold 20... Read More.

An ongoing rash of prescription drug abuse in the Sun Coast has moved Charlotte County Commissioners to issue new curbs on so-called "pill mills" in the county. They've now passed an ordinance that opens... Read More.

Preliminary figures on a new Florida law requiring drug tests for welfare applicants are surprising some who backed that law. They show that welfare applicants are actually less likely than other people to use... Read More.