Sarasota FL

SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - The Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office has released video of a recent arrest of a suspect on the Legacy Trail. While assisting on an unrelated call, a helicopter unit spotted a suspicious person riding an e-bike after park hours on the Legacy Trail. When he tried...

Bruce and Heidi Smith moved to Osprey about five years ago to be closer to her family, and brought their successful food truck, Chick-N-Noga with them. Their concept of serving fresh, hand-breaded chicken tenders proved to be as successful in Sarasota as it had been for five years in Chattanooga, Tennessee. In 2024,...

A man convicted of abducting, raping and murdering a young mother in Sarasota County is set to be executed later today. Michael Lee King, 54, is scheduled to receive a three-drug injection starting at 6 p.m. at Florida State Prison near Starke. King was sentenced to death in 2009 after...

SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - I-75 drivers are currently dealing with a near 20 minute delay between Fruitville Road and Bee Ridge Road. Crashes are on both sides of the interstate, causing morning commuters to slow down. Northbound delays start near Clark Road and southbound before University Parkway.

A fatal crash is expected to cause traffic delays at a major St. Petersburg intersection for several hours.

Courtney Delaney and Joshua Sanders are facing multiple felonies after their daughter allegedly overdosed on drugs from the home at her middle school. The post 'Curious about it': Middle schooler overdosed in class with drugs swiped from arguing parents, police say first appeared on Law & Crime .

ENGLEWOOD, Fla. (WWSB) - A house fire Monday morning left a resident critically injured and caused significant damage to a home on the 1700 block of Morning Dove Lane. Fire crews were dispatched just after 10 a.m. and arrived to find heavy smoke and active flames coming from the residence, Englewood Area Fire Control...

More than 17 years after the abduction and murder of North Port mother Denise Amber Lee, the 54-year-old man convicted of killing her is scheduled to be executed. Prosecutors said Michael King randomly targeted the 21-year-old mother of two on Jan. 17, 2008, abducting her from her home while her young children were...

In a poll taken of the approximately 20 residents who attended Manatee County’s Budget 101 session at Lakewood Ranch Town Hall March 11, 92% said they would prefer to keep paying their current taxes rather than cutting services to save money. The scenario presented by Claudia Campos, Manatee County’s...

The story begins like this: a beloved lost dog belonging to one Donald Evans was found by the dog catcher and euthanized in Sarasota in 1951. To prevent this type of heartbreak for others, Evans started the Humane Society of Sarasota County in 1952, which had room for 48 dogs and six cats.