Sarasota FL

A night out at a Sarasota bar has ended with a man dead and two people under arrest, after Florida troopers tied them to a fatal hit-and-run on U.S. 41 earlier this month. The crash happened on April 12 near the Seminole Drive intersection in Sarasota County, when a pedestrian was struck while crossing the highway. He was taken to a hospital...

SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - First Alert Weather Day: Saturday evening on the Suncoast. A First Alert Weather Day has been issued for the Suncoast as a line of showers and thunderstorms moves in Saturday evening into the night. This system will bring much-needed rain to a drought-stricken region, but also...

The 87-page indictment from January 2021 to April 2026 was unsealed revealing James “Jimmy the Greek” Gerodemos as the alleged mastermind on the Northwest Indiana operation run primarily out of two restaurants. Chris L. Gerodemos of Sarasota, Florida among those charged. Another defendant lived as far away as...

A Sarasota restaurateur has died, shortly after opening a highly anticipated new restaurant that he spent about a year renovating. Samuel Ray, who co-owned Tsunami Sushi & Hibachi Grill in Lakewood Ranch and previously in downtown Sarasota, as well as the recently opened Hanami Sushi Cocktails & Grill in the Rosemary District, has died. He was 34. Ray co-owned the businesses with Jeffrey Karasawa...

SARASOTA — One bad inning helped dig a hole for Venice that it simply couldn’t climb out of in the end.

From April 16 to April 19 at the Concession Golf Club in Bradenton, longtime Wellington resident Justin Hicks made his debut in the Senior PGA Championship, which is golf’s most storied major championship for seniors over age 50. While Hicks didn’t win, he finished in a tie for 17th...

When a lumberman swapped stacks of plywood for stacks of bargains, he never imagined his new venture would grow into a sprawling weekend tradition. This massive Florida flea market now greets thousands of bargain hunters every single weekend. You will find a sprawling mix of indoor and outdoor spaces, with...

Corps project manager tells city engineer ‘sand placed to north will work its way down there’. In December 2025, the website of the City of Sarasota featured a map that showed the limits of the Lido Key Beach Renourishment Project planned to begin in late January of this year.

Doctors at Sarasota Memorial Hospital say a new early detection program is helping catch more lung cancers before symptoms begin and when the disease is most treatable.

SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - Today: We’ll have another nice day today under a mix of sun and clouds… warm and humid for sure as highs are forecast to be in the low 80s for the beaches and in the low 90s inland!. This Weekend: Our cold front is...