Bradenton FL

BRADENTON, Fla. (WWSB) - The Manatee County Sheriff’s Office has identified the man killed in an early Sunday shooting as Jamari Murray-Barnes, 27. Murray-Barnes was one of two men found with gunshot wounds inside a white vehicle in the 5200 block of 14th Street West after deputies on routine patrol heard multiple...

The company’s first drone delivery site in Florida will serve Prime customers living within an eight-mile radius of the Ruskin fulfillment center. Items under five pounds and about the size of a shoebox, such as over-the-counter medication, baby food, cleaning supplies, and small electronics—can be delivered directly...

Wally Dubbaneh came to the Bradenton area for a change of pace. After owning an operating a popular barbecue restaurant in Port Charlotte for 15 years, Dubbaneh decided his next food venture would be something different — and a little more laid back. “Barbecue is like 24/7 work, but I (needed) something like...

A Nokomis man is being held without bond at the Sarasota County Jail after a woman woke up to find a stranger in her bed, authorities say. Local reporting indicates the man faces multiple charges connected to the incident, but specifics are still scarce. Local reporting and charges. As reported...

The Sarasota-Manatee market will soon be without a Saks Fifth Avenue store for the first time in 30 years. The retailer, in a Saturday note to customers, says it will be closing its location at the Mall at University Town Center in the UTC district, just outside Lakewood Ranch, at the end of May. “As part of our...

A great white shark measuring over 10 feet long pinged off the coast of Sarasota County on Sunday.

ST. PETERSBURG — A new Beef ‘O’ Brady’s will open Tuesday, March 17, at 2901 66th St. N., filling a space that sat empty after an Applebee’s abruptly closed there last summer. Owners Amit and Jamie Khanna, a husband-and-wife team who relocated from Colorado, plan...

SARASOTA, Fla. (WFLA)— Two northbound lanes are closed on I-75 in Sarasota after a dump truck hit an overpass. The Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office is assisting the Florida Highway Patrol on the incident at the Procter Road overpass. According to deputies, the dump truck was traveling north on I-75 when it struck the...

The Florida House of Representatives unanimously approved a scaled-back bill Wednesday to create a special district around the booming University Town Center area — a proposal that would still give one of the region’s largest developers significant influence over the new entity spanning more than 1,400 acres across...

In a world where “all-you-can-eat” often means “all the mediocre food you can tolerate,” finding a place that offers unlimited quality seafood feels like discovering a glitch in the matrix. The Crab Shack in St. Petersburg has cracked the code, offering seafood feasts that make you...