Sarasota FL

PALMETTO BAY, Fla. (CBS12) — Ring doorbell footage caught a sports car speeding through a South Florida backyard before slamming into concrete on Christmas Eve. According to WPLG, the Corvette crashed through a fence and into the Palmetto homeowners' boat, trailer, and the wall on the side of their house.

SARASOTA, Fla. — The annual Pineapple Drop takes place for New Year's Day in downtown Sarasota at Lemon Avenue and Main Street, followed by a fireworks show over the Bayfront. The Sarasota Police Department asks those planning to attend the festivities to leave backpacks, coolers and alcohol at home.

A Florida woman has been arrested after being accused of killing 2 of her ex-husbands on the same day! This sounds like something you'd see in a movie or on TV!. Unfortunately, it's all too real. I'm sure there will one day be a true crime documentary or some sort of media that covers this story. You don't hear about...

During COVID, Dimitri Syros was in law school at the University of Miami. He had no intentions of opening a restaurant. But food service is in his blood. His Greek family had restaurants his whole life, and he worked in them too. When classes went remote during the pandemic, Syros...

VENICE — Three South County residents are among 14 people whose arrests were announced by the Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office on Tuesday as the result of a multi-jurisdictional narcotics investigation from 2024 to 2025.

NORTH PORT, Fla. (WWSB) -On Christmas day, a 95-year-old man ran a red light and drove against traffic before crashing into a police car, according to a police report. 95-year-old Ronald Erickson was traveling northbound when he failed to stop at a red light at the intersection of U.S. 41 and South Sumter Crossing...

Just over a year after announcing plans to bring its exclusive club to Sarasota, representatives for 1000 NORTH secured partial sign-off of the city’s Development Review Committee on Dec. 17. Planned for the BLVD Sarasota building at the corner of Boulevard of the Arts and North Tamiami Trail, it...

Sarasota and Manatee counties’ school districts have shut the door on Schools of Hope charter operators seeking space inside public campuses — for now. Both districts denied the Nov. 11 requests made by Mater Academy and Somerset Academy to co-locate inside four schools: Emma E. Booker Elementary and Brookside Middle...

A Miami-based restaurant that made its Sarasota area debut last year has expanded further locally , taking over the permanently closed location of a national chain (albeit one that is making a comeback elsewhere.) Pura Vida Miami is now open at 4994 S. Tamiami Trail #100 in Sarasota's The Landings shopping plaza, in...

Lakewood Ranch Medical Center (LWRMC) is proud to announce the official ribbon cutting of its new, state-of-the-art Cardiac Catheterization Lab, marking a major milestone in the hospital’s ongoing investment in advanced heart care for the community. The hospital’s second Cath Lab opened for procedures on December 1,...