Sarasota FL

Key takeaway: Local pet retail chain DOGPerfect is starting to franchise, prompted by success in the years since the company’s founding in 2019. Core challenge: The owners, Linda and Rob Emery, are learning they are in a new business: selling a franchise business that sells dog food and dog toys rather than selling...

Using DNA left at the scene, Bradenton police say they identified a suspect that broke into Saint Stephen’s Episcopal School in November. Surveillance video captured Joshua Wilbar, 43, riding a bike on the school’s campus with a seemingly full white bag in hand on Sunday, Nov. 2, the Bradenton Police Department said...

SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - Sarasota County Mosquito Management has introduced a new flock of sentinel chickens as part of its annual program to monitor mosquito-borne disease activity. The county said chickens do not get sick from diseases such as West Nile virus and several types of encephalitis. Instead, the birds...

Charlotte County, Florida – Authorities say a Florida woman has been arrested after allegedly stabbing her roommate to death and later driving the victim’s truck to another city following the incident. According to the Charlotte County Sheriff’s Office, deputies responded Sunday night to a home on Gewant Boulevard...

Tigers chuff in Sarasota, and you can hear it up close. Big Cat Habitat & Gulf Coast Sanctuary rescues majestic animals and invites you to meet them with respect. Expect heart thumps, happy tears, and stories you will tell for years. Here is how to make the most of this...

A Manatee County jury found a Lakewood Ranch mother guilty of manslaughter after prosecutors said she backed over and killed her 2-year-old son in the family’s driveway . After several hours of deliberation on Wednesday, jurors convicted Brittany Geiman, 33, in the March 2024 death of her son, Maverick, following a...

March 11, 2026 – Cardiac resynchronization therapy with a defibrillator is a common treatment that uses an implanted device to help weakened or failing hearts beat more efficiently. While this therapy helps some people with rhythm disorders, others may see little to no improvement. In search of additional treatment...

But laws and infrastructure have not caught up with the growing numbers of scooters and e-bikes – and their speed. Host: It used to be that if you were on two wheels in Sarasota, you were either a serious athlete in spandex, somebody who lost their driver’s license, or a tourist on a cruiser. Not anymore. Now, the...

Recycling of organics helps slow landfill growth. Host: Lee County, just south of here, is big into composting. Since 2010, that county has been operating a large-scale biosolids facility next to a landfill. Sarasota is years behind that kind of effort. But now, the City of Sarasota is beginning to move. Gretchen...

BRADENTON, Fla. (WWSB) - A Bradenton man has been charged with burglarizing Saint Stephen’s Episcopal School after DNA evidence and surveillance video helped identify him, police said. Joshua Wilbar, 43, was charged in connection with the break-in, the Bradenton Police Department said in a social media post....