The Florida Music Education Association has honored the music programs of a pair of Sarasota County middle schools as well as a teacher from Laurel Nokomis Elementary school. Charles Allen received the association's Music... Read More.

Police in Longboat Key are currently investigating the death of a 54 year old woman that found in a sauna earlier this week. Police were called to the Moorings Harbourside clubhouse Tuesday evening and... Read More.

Getting vaccinated for the human papillomavirus would be a requirement for all public school kids if a bill passes through the Florida legislature. Democratic State Sen. Jose Javier Rodriguez of Miami is the lead... Read More.

A veteran who calls Bradenton home has been sentenced to home detention after a guilty plea of defrauding the government. Why? Because he pretended to be blind. 71-years-old Doyle Mullins Jr., who is indeed... Read More.

An arrest was made Monday of a Venice High School football player just days before the team is scheduled to be part of a championship parade. 18-year-old Jeremy Trebbles was arrested in Sarasota and... Read More.

Proper procedure was followed. That's the word from Manatee County Sheriff Rick Wells about an officer-involved shooting that happened Tuesday night in Bradenton. A man was shot and killed by a deputy even though... Read More.

No one was injured after a two-alarm fire at a home on Siesta Key yesterday afternoon. Fire crews were called to the 1100 block of Windsong Lane around 4pm. The fire had apparently either... Read More.

The bidding for a nearly $6 million project to refurbish Venice Ave. closes early next month. According to the city of Venice's engineering department, outside analysis showed the facelift could be done in as... Read More.