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NORTH PORT — The city of North Port, City Manager Jerome Fletcher and Vice Mayor Barbara Langdon have been dismissed from a lawsuit related to a local radio station.

A fugitive wanted out of Manatee County in connection with a 2019 murder was found in another country.

The Sarasota County Commissioners will meet at 9 a.m. on January 27 at the Robert L. Anderson Building in Venice to weigh land use changes for the Winchester Ranch community planned off River Road, between Englewood and North Port. The team behind Wellen Park wants to shift most of this...

A Manatee County school bus carrying four students was involved in a South Bradenton crash on Tuesday, Jan. 13. The school bus was stopped facing northbound in the outside travel lane of U.S. 31 and Orlando Avenue, waiting to make a right turn at 7:00 a.m. A GMC van was traveling northbound in the center,...

HILLSBORURGH COUNTY, Fla. (WWSB) - A Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office deputy appeared in a Manatee County courtroom today facing DUI charges. Shannon McBride, 60, has worked for the Sheriff’s Department for seven years and was most recently assigned as a jail detention deputy. Manatee County sheriffs responded...

Manatee County is on the hunt for four civic-minded individuals to provide oversight for its Infrastructure Sales Tax spending. These roles are part of an advisory committee formed to ensure that taxpayer money is being put to good use. The half-cent sales tax was greenlighted by voters back in 2016, and the...

In the case of the group performing for attendees from The Education Center last weekend, that would be a classically trained musician who melds celebratory Jewish folk music with Texan music influences. As center Program Director Susan Goldfarb said in her introduction of the group, she didn't know whether yamakas...

MANATEE COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) — A routine patrol off the Manatee County coastline turned into a marine rescue Friday when deputies spotted a shark tangled in fishing gear near the shoreline. Deputies with the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office Marine Unit say they were patrolling near Manatee Public Beach when...

Jan. 12, 2026 – Sarasota Memorial Health Care Center announced the opening of Sarasota Memorial’s new, accredited Sleep Disorder Center, a comprehensive program dedicated to evaluating and treating a wide range of sleep disorders that can impact long-term health. Community members experiencing loud snoring, witnessed...

Trespassing: Months after a security guard called police on a group of kids fishing on private property without permission, the perpetrators were finally identified. A police officer on patrol cracked the case after he saw a group of people at a closed golf course, the same course where trespassing calls were...