Sarasota FL

Sarasota diners craving a taste of Duff’s Famous Wings — long revered by upstate New Yorkers — can finally get their fix at lunchtime. The restaurant, which opened at 3900 Clark Road last month, announced it is expanding its hours to 11 a.m.-10 p.m. on social media . With the new hours, Duff's also unveiled a new...

VENICE, Fla. (WWSB) - The City of Venice is tightening its water restrictions due to extreme drought conditions. In an announcement Wednesday, the city outlined the changes for residents inside the city limits:. Watering hours (sprinklers) Before: Watering before 8 a.m. or after 6 p.m., once per week. Now: Watering...

SARASOTA, Fla. — The Sarasota County School Board appears poised to approve new guidelines regulating student demonstrations during school hours, following a series of disruptive protests earlier this year. The proposed rules come in response to immigration enforcement protests that interrupted operations at several...

FLORIDA — A 44-year-old man has been charged with murder months after authorities say he sold drugs that led to a fatal overdose in Manatee County. According to the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office, deputies found 41-year-old Jonathan Watson dead in late October near Sunset Circle North in Ellenton. Investigators...

Local loyalty means a lot more when the food never has to shout for attention. This laid-back Florida seafood spot has built exactly that kind of reputation, because people keep coming back for meals they already know they are going to enjoy. Nothing about the place feels overly polished or...

For Arcadia teenager Chuck Black, it was the opposite of nails on the blackboard. Black listened as one of his local buddies recreated Eddie Van Halen's famous "pick scrape," a guitar technique in which the edge of the plectrum, or pick, is dragged along the guitar strings to create a metallic, scratching sound.

Suspicious incident: It’s the age-old story of boy meets girls, boy hands girls his cell phone to exchange Instagram handles, girls walk away with boy’s phone. The complainant flagged down an officer on patrol to report he had met a group of females outside a Main Street bar and, while speaking with them, handed over...

At the parking lot of the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall in Sarasota, cars drive in a single-file line through orange cones and park by a large truck belonging to A1 Shredding and Recycling Inc. A group of volunteers wearing tie-dye shirts grab boxes of old paper from the trunks...

SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - A controlled burn spread to a barn and then to a brush fire Wednesday morning. A homeowner started a controlled burn in his backyard when the fire spread to his barn. Multiple units arrived on the scene to find it had spread to a brush fire.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - A man who detectives say spent more than a decade on the run is now behind bars, after being found living quietly in St. Petersburg under a fake name. Investigators with the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office located Joseph Davis earlier this month and arrested him. Davis...