Sarasota FL

SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - A family disturbance ended in gunfire Thursday evening after deputies shot a man holding a handgun, the Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office said. The incident occurred in the 2100 block of 59th Street, two blocks south of University Parkway, east of U.S. 301. Sheriff’s office Community...

NOKOMIS — A dispute over a parking lot lease between two well-known, long-established businesses has landed in court.

TAMPA, Fla. (WWSB) - A truck driver from Sarasota has been sentenced to four years in prison for smuggling guns into Canada, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said Thursday. Erhan John Er, 35, was convicted for his role in an international firearms trafficking conspiracy. According to court documents, from February...

A well-rated breakfast restaurant in Sarasota County failed a recent routine food and health inspection, with state inspectors finding improperly stored food and a broken sanitizing machine among seven violations.

Homeowners associations and resident groups eager to have the state’s transportation department pay for landscaping upgrades on adjacent state-maintained streets or highways might someday have to pay those maintenance costs themselves. Sarasota County commissioners last week asked legal staffers to look into the...

Military flags removed as organizers plan repairs and improved security following incident. On Saturday night, Feb. 14, less than two weeks after the new Patriot’s Pier flagpoles were dedicated on Feb. 3, they were vandalized and broken. The following morning, when Wayne Bundy, who manages the daily military flag...

On a late December morning on Triangle Ranch, Elizabeth Moore, blonde hair grazing her shoulders and wearing a sunny yellow tennis outfit with matching rubber boots, hops aboard a side-by-side (a souped-up, all-terrain, gas-powered golf cart and tractor hybrid) alongside her property manager Jason McKendree and his...

There’s a version of Italian-American dining that has become so thoroughly predictable that you could walk into almost any strip mall in America, order the chicken parm and the tiramisu, and receive something technically correct but emotionally hollow. Scarpino’s Classic Italian (6062 Van Dyke Rd., Lutz), which...

Tucked along 4th Street North in St. Petersburg, Florida, El Cap Restaurant has been flipping burgers since 1962 — and locals have never stopped talking about it. While fast-food giants spend millions on ads, El Cap earns its reputation one juicy, freshly ground patty at a time. With over...

In less than a year since residential construction began in the mixed-use community of SeaFlower located along Bradenton’s coastal mainland, homebuyer interest has been strong prompting the release of 784 of the 1,063 homesites planned for Phase One. SeaFlower is reporting more than 238 homes have sold as of...