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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.

(CHARLOTTE COUNTY) The Charlotte County Sheriff Bill Cameron announced that the Traffic Safety Team received four new Falcon HR traffic radar units, and other equipment, as the result of winning two first place awards... Read More.

A 78-year-old Port Charlotte woman recovering today after being run down while trying to cross a street -- with her walker. The Highway Patrol says Mary Lou Davis was trying to cross the street... Read More.

Royal visitors could be coming to North Port in a couple of years. As the state celebrates the five hundredth anniversary of the discovery of Florida by Spain, word of a royal invitation: King... Read More.

The so-called Sidewalk Ordinance we've been telling you about may be dead in Charlotte County. The proposal would have banned sitting on sidewalks by pedestrians or bicyclists as a way to control where homeless... Read More.