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Safe Children Coalition (SCC), the community-based care agency for Circuit 12, serves Sarasota, Manatee, and Desoto counties, providing Foster Care, Adoption, and Prevention and Diversion programs for more than 10,000 children and families in our community. Over 80% are served through prevention-focused programs like...

SARASOTA — The Sarasota County School Board’s revised attendance policy will be among the items to be discussed at the Dec. 16 meeting.

Port St. Joe native Tamara Chambers and Nicholas Peters were married on Saturday afternoon, Nov. 22, 2025 at the Manatee River Garden Club in Bradenton. Elder Willie Chambers, of Christ Gospel Church in St. Petersburg, officiated. A rehearsal dinner was held Friday, Nov. 21 at the Bradenton Yacht Club. The...

SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - The Sarasota community gathered over the weekend for the United for Relief Reggae Festival to benefit Jamaica, held yesterday morning. Proceeds from the event will benefit food for citizens in Jamaica who are struggling and support on-the-ground relief efforts across Jamaica after this year’s...

The penalty phase for a man found guilty of killing a man and a pregnant woman in 2018 is now underway.

SARASOTA, Fla. - A performance was held this morning at Sarasota Military Academy in Sarasota, and there was one special guest in the room: A World War II and Korean War veteran preparing for his own milestone. Lieutenant Bernard has been heavily involved with SMA and also the arts. The...

Two people were killed in an accident along I-75 Sunday afternoon authorities say. The incident shut down traffic along the roadway for several hours, police say. All northbound lanes of I-75 near mile marker 203 were fully reopened after the fatal vehicle crash closed parts of the interstate for several hours late...

SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission and the State Attorney’s Office are investigating Sarasota content creator Charles Ross after he posted a video of an opossum being launched into the air by a catapult. Ross, who posts social media videos under the name RossCreations,...

DECEMBER 15, 2025 — A Coast Guard Station St. Petersburg boat crew rescued five boaters after their 32-foot vessel sank 28 miles west of Egmont Key, Friday. The five boaters were in stable condition and safely transported to awaiting emergency medical service personnel at Tierra Verde Marina. An Air...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (WFLA) — The St. Petersburg Police Department said three people are in custody after a man was barricaded near Interstate 375. At around 1:30 p.m., St. Pete police announced that officers closed the I-75 ramp that goes from the eastbound lanes into the city due to a barricaded man in the 1300 […]