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Welcome shoppers! A newly renovated Publix supermarket in Florida is reopening on March 5, the Lakeland-based company announced on its website . The existing store in Clearwater, originally renovated from an Albertson's store in 2009, was demolished to be rebuilt in the popular grocery chain's new shopper-friendly...

SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - St. Stephen’s Episcopal School is offering grief support to students following the deaths of two of its students, Josh and Emma James, who were killed by their mother in a Lakewood Ranch home. The mother also died in what authorities are investigating as a murder-suicide.

Manatee County’s Parrish area continues to gain commercial momentum with the announced addition of a major grocery retailer slated for construction later this year. According to recently filed Manatee County development paperwork, a new ALDI grocery store is planned in Parrish Lakes East, bringing another...

Twenty-three years after Denisha Williams was found dead in her Bradenton apartment, her killing remains unsolved and her case is still officially open with city detectives. Williams was discovered in 2003 inside her home at 1909 5th Street West, where investigators say she suffered multiple injuries. Detectives...

SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - A man accused of driving his car into a Bradenton nursing home and firing at deputies is scheduled to go to trial April 20. Investigators say Sean Calcutty drove his vehicle into the entrance of Aspire at Palmasola Bay in May 2024 in an attempt to enter the building.

The sheriff's office said Brian Hewson pulled out a gun, pointed it directly at the deputy and pulled the trigger.

Allman Brothers Band’s co-founder, the late “Ramblin’ Man” Dickey Betts, will be honored in his home state of Florida with a namesake stretch of memorial highway on U.S. Route 41, located in Sarasota County. The decision came on Wednesday, February 25, when the Florida House passed...

Lily Z. Yard, 27, was found dead in her Florida residence last month

BRADENTON, Fla. - A Sarasota man was killed, and two other people were seriously injured after a crash on Sunday afternoon in Bradenton, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. According to investigators, a 19-year-old Bradenton man was driving a Ford Mustang westbound on 53rd Avenue West. What we know:. As...

VENICE, Fla. (WWSB) - A worker in Venice was airlifted to a hospital Monday after he fell from a roof, Venice Fire Rescue said. Crews responded to a 911 call at 12:10 p.m. to the Farley Funeral Home on S. Nokomis Avenue. A man working on the electrical system had...