Sarasota FL

SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - New horrific details are emerging in a double homicide discovered May 23 in South Sarasota. The Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office says 34-year-old Nicholas Novickis shot 34-year-old Allie Novickis and their 6-year-old son, Phoenix, with a shotgun at his mother’s home in the 4700 block of Mondrian

The acai bowls at Clementines don’t come in your typical round bowl. Sky Kirkwood spent years working in her family’s ice cream and donut shops on Anna Maria Island, so when she created her own menu, she opted for banana-split boats. At 22, she opened her cafe in Bradenton. Two weeks later, Hurricane Helene leveled bot

SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - A gas leak closed a section of Lemon Avenue Tuesday morning. Sarasota County Fire Department responded to the call just before 9 a.m. Police and fire crews blocked off Lemon Avenue north of Ninth Street. A TECO crew were dispatched and the leak was contained in...

She was minutes from home, driving back from a celebration, when a single bad decision destroyed everything, and the last words her family received from her were ones of pure love. Lauryn Marie Akey, 21, a University of South Florida student from Bradenton, Florida, was killed in the early hours...

Brian and Maureen Connelly, trustees, of Fontana-on-Geneva Lake, Wisconsin, sold the home at 681 Old Compass Road to Dawn Altmeyer, of Skancateles, New York, for $4.2 million. Built in 2022, it has three bedrooms, three-and-a-half baths, a pool and 2,520 square feet of living area. It sold for $800,000 in 2020.

The 2026 Sarasota Music Festival will have a new and reduced look that organizers hope will have an even bigger impact on the young musicians who train there, their faculty mentors and the audiences who attend concerts. The closing of the Hyatt Regency Sarasota hotel, within walking distance of the...

Florida takes all-you-can-eat seriously. Just imagine the mountains of crab legs, sizzling grill stations, endless sushi rolls, and dessert tables that look like they trained for a beauty pageant, and you will understand why locals and visitors keep coming back with big appetites and zero shame about second dessert. Fr

As a 6-year-old, Shoreview's Ellie Tullidge has three files, each labeled with the following — saving, spending and charity. With her parents, Amanda and Dan Tullidge, providing funds for her charity file, she then decided to donate $25 to Stillpoint Mission, a 100% volunteer-run Bradenton nonprofit that provides essen

State lawmakers have agreed to transfer the USF Sarasota-Manatee campus to New College of Florida as part of the state budget deal. Current USF Sarasota-Manatee students would remain USF students through a teach-out process for up to four years under the proposal. University leaders and board members say unanswered que

Venice, Florida has earned a reputation that makes beachcombers from across the globe pack their bags and head to its shores. This charming Gulf Coast town sits on some of the richest fossil beds in the entire state, where ancient shark teeth wash up by the thousands every single day. What makes Venice so special is th