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This guy really had a affect on somebody! On Saturday, Fox 4 reports, there was a man standing on the Barron Collier Bridge with a rope tied, one end to the bridge and the other... Read More.

Security officials at Sun Coast area schools are on heightened alert after a bomb threat was exposed in Tampa early in the week. School officials here are now encouraging students and employees to be... Read More.

More headaches for Standard and Poores -- and this time, it's local. Not only is the credit rating agency being investigated by the federal government, it's been fired by Manatee County. The county joining... Read More.

Seaside Engineering and Surveying Inc. will be performing hydrographic and topographic beach profile surveys on Venice Beach beginning Aug. 19. The surveys are being done for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Work includes... Read More.

The Pioneers Days Celebration will drop to a crawl on September 4th...that's when the Lemon Bay Woman's Club Diaper Derby is happening. It'll be at the club's Cocoanut and Maple Streets building, starting at... Read More.

The Lee County Sheriff has arrested a local man for his wife's death. Sheriff's officials say that Kenneth McCafferty faces a charge of vehicular manslaughter, and they his blood alcohol was twice the legal limit... Read More.

Work starts this morning on the Boundary Boulevard sidewalk project in Englewood. Construction will continue for several weeks, shutting down one lane.

Two Lee County nurses got their hands on lots of Oxycodone, and not legally. No, they spent five months collecting five thousand Oxycodone tablets from several pharmacies, including some in Lee County. Now, 52 year... Read More.

The price of a round of golf is hitting what may be record lows at some Suncoast courses. If you don't mind hot-weather golfing, you may want to take advantage of what some observers... Read More.

The town of Longboat Key is seeking up to $76,500 for the 2011-12 fiscal year in West Coast Inland Navigation District funds for police and fire/rescue marine operations in the Manatee County portion of... Read More.