Sarasota FL

They started showing up a year ago, after the hurricanes. At night, they move a few feet, onto Shore Boulevard, where it’s legal to leave your car all night. Calls and complaints started coming in the spring, from waterfront residents upset people were drying laundry on the picnic tables and grandparents who worried...

St. Petersburg police are cracking down on unlawful e-bike riding on the roads. Thursday night, officers issued 24 citations to a group of more than 50 people riding near downtown.

A South Florida bus rapid transit system is poised to lose its dedicated lanes after a state study found that a segment along a state road in St. Petersburg has seen a 50 percent increase in crashes and increased congestion in general purpose lanes. According to an article by Janelle...

BRADENTON, Fla. (WWSB) - James Flowers, Jr. has been sentenced to a decade behind bars in the Florida Department of Corrections for connection to an armed home invasion in 2023. On the morning of March 3, 2023, Flowers, James Reid, and two other suspects entered a home in the 400...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla - St. Petersburg police say 31-year-old Tucker Alden Kemp, of Clearwater, was arrested Wednesday morning for damaging the wall and Pride flag at the Starbucks on the 900 block of 4th Street. The backstory:. According to the arrest affidavit, Kemp was offended by a Pride flag hanging...

Sarasota County Schools Superintendent Terry Connor has unveiled a plan to fortify an elementary school in the historically Black neighborhood of Newtown against a possible takeover by a charter school. The idea is to partner with Junior Achievement, a national nonprofit organization that specializes in youth...

When Manatee County Sheriff’s deputies raided the Spin Fun Arcade two years ago this month, they believed they were shutting down one of the county’s more blatant illegal gambling dens. Perched along U.S. 41 in a busy Bradenton strip mall, the arcade’s darkened windows were wrapped with images...

Oct. 23, 2025 – Atrial fibrillation (AFib), is the most common treated heart arrhythmia, affecting over 6 million American adults. Sarasota Memorial’s Kolschowsky Research and Education Institute is participating in the CONFORM Pivotal trial, evaluating a new investigational device that offers patients with AFib an...

Nearly half of the south Skyway Fishing Pier State Park — located on the Manatee County side of the Sunshine Skyway Bridge — is set to close indefinitely. The Florida State Parks website , run by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP), states about 0.6 miles of the nearly 2-mile-long south fishing...

The Homeland Security Secretary lauds Florida law enforcement’s cooperation with ICE, says driving without license is a crime. Host: ICE is catching bad guys. That’s the simple message Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem brought during a quick stop during her whirlwind tour of the United States. Ramon Lopez got...