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NORTH PORT — Officials with the North Port Police Department say there is currently a “sophisticated cellphone scam” going around where scammers can even get access to someone’s money.

A Sprouts Farmers Market anchored retail property in Venice has sold to a Detroit investor. The single-tenant parcel is at 1120 Jacaranda Blvd. just south of Interstate 75. According to SRS Capital Markets, which represented the seller and announced the deal, says it sold for $14.8 million. The deal, the...

There is a restaurant in Sarasota’s Pinecraft neighborhood that has been winning the pie argument for decades without ever raising its voice about it. The Amish and Mennonite community that calls this corner of Florida home has always had its own pace and its own standards, and this kitchen lives up to both without any

D-R Media and Investments of Venice, Florida, has selected SCS’s Community Advertising System to update and enhance its advertising and production workflows. D-R Media publishes the Highlands News-Sun, the Winter Haven Sun, the Polk Sun, the Sumter Sun Times, the Four Corners Sun, the Clermont Sun and the Triangle Sun.

From the planned rededication of Bicentennial Park to the release of 250 butterflies, Longboat Key's Fourth of July celebrations promise to be spectacular. The Longboat Key Chamber of Commerce and partners are gearing up for a Freedom Fest like no other as the country celebrates the 250th anniversary of adopting the De

Longtime banking executive and national public official Bill Isaac, whose career ran from chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. during the 1980s to helping grow a Sarasota trust firm in the 2020s, has announced his retirement. Issac, who has lived in Sarasota’s Lido Shores neighborhood for some 20 years,...

Ian and Sheila Aitken, of Barrington, Illinois, sold their home at 119 N. Warbler Lane to David Cain, trustee, of Sarasota, for $6.55 million. Built in 1997, it has three bedrooms, four baths, a pool and 5,099 square feet of living area. It sold for $3,825,000 in 2018. The Beach...

Manatee County is getting $6.1 million in federal funding for beach renourishment efforts along a federally authorized segment of Anna Maria Island between Holmes Beach and Bradenton Beach. The funding, approved through the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, will support the placement of beach-compatible sand to replace sho

Manatee County commissioners revisited a controversial Piney Point contract amendment Tuesday after a vote on the item failed last week in a 3-3 tie. FOX 13's Kailey Tracy reports.

Disturbance: In the interest of alliteration, the Cops Corner team chose scopophiliac for the headline, which in layman’s parlance is a peeper. While on routine patrol, an officer observed an adult male at Five Points Park taking videos on his phone of young females who were engaging in that most on-trend of modern pas