Around midnight, the sheriff's office was called to a laundromat on 57th Avenue East after deputies nearby reported hearing gunshots.

Police are searching for a male suspect who allegedly stole a credit card from a hotel guest in Sarasota.

Deputies arrested a 65-year-old man in Venice on Wednesday for the possession of child pornography.

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Oak Park School, which serves special needs and differently-abled students from pre-K to age 22, is hosting its second annual Holiday Bazaar. It’s a chance for students to learn art and business skills, creating ornaments and gifts for purchase.

Police say the driver left the roadway and went into a pond on school property at Atwater Elementary.

The coast Guard was alerted that there was a dog in the water in distress off Fort Myers Beach and Bowditch Point.

The threat began to circulate among the students of Woodland Middle School Wednesday evening and detectives immediately got to work, quickly learning the name and whereabouts of the student they say sent the original message.

The City of Palmetto Community Redevelopment Agency voted unanimously Monday to contribute 28 percent of the costs for the design, engineering and construction of a pool at Lincoln Park, which will initially be paid by Manatee County, up to costs of $1.5 million.

The latest proposal shows the three-story performing arts center would be raised up on "stilts," which would allow parking for around 200 cars underneath the building.

Around 7:30pm Monday, officers were called to a home on the 300 block of Osprey Avenue in Sarasota, where they found a 23-year-old woman who was 9-months-pregnant unconscious.

On August 6, the sheriff's office says the victim was woken up in her tent at an undisclosed location around 2:30am and confronted by 32-year-old Andrew Wade Woodard, a man she did not know.

The sheriff’s office says when they arrived, they spoke to the victim’s husband, 76-year-old John Richardson, and say he told them, “I may have had something to do with her demise,” but didn’t offer deputies an explanation.

Martin Hyde, a Sarasota businessman and City Commission candidate, has been in the headlines since a viral video emerged over the weekend and he was accused of racism.

According to police, an unknown man, later identified as Andrew Bailey, entered the business through a roof access and allegedly stole $400 from two cash registers in the bar.

Edward “Big Ed” Peteja, the former spring training announcer at Ed Smith Stadium and a former youth baseball coach, is going to prison for child porn.

The parade begins at 7pm at Main Street and U.S. 301 in downtown Sarasota and ends at J.D. Hamel Park at Main Street and Gulfstream Avenue.

One local senior living community gave their residents an early holiday present on Monday. The Fountains at Lake Pointe Woods unveiled their new dog park as part of National Mutt Day.

The sheriff's office says sometime between 5pm on Sunday and 8am Monday, the suspects in this case forced their way through a locked gate onto the victim's property on the 5800 block of Buckeye Road and stole the horse.

Over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, a Bradenton woman went into labor labor mid-air on a flight from Tampa to Pennsylvania.

Sarasota businessman Martin Hyde, known among other things for his candidacy for Sarasota City Commission, is in hot water after a video surfaced on social media showing an alleged altercation with a group of teens from Puerto Rico at a local tennis club.

During the holiday season, there is a spike in car burglars seeking easy opportunities to take valuables from vehicles, which is exactly what the sheriff's office says happened Sunday at Urfer Park in Sarasota.

If you get a call from Sarasota Police asking for money for some reason or another, it’s definitely not Sarasota Police.

It happened Monday morning at the intersection of 25th and Leon in Sarasota. District Police say a student on board a bus bound for Oak Park School attacked another student with a steak knife, causing minor injuries.

It happened around 3:45pm on the 3000 block of McCloud Circle. Deputies say an 11-year-old boy was playing with a gun found in the home along with a 12-year-old boy.

The sheriff’s office in Pinellas County says around 4pm on Sunday at the Indian Springs Marina on 113th Avenue North in unincorporated Largo, 50-year-old David Weil was filling the inboard engine on his 2005 Four Winds 25-foot deck boat with fuel when some spilled.

Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) troopers are searching for a suspect involved in a hit-and-run incident on Saturday morning in Manatee County.

Climate protests also took place here on the Suncoast on Friday.

A rollover accident is causing an increase in traffic in southern Sarasota County.

Firefighters responded to a structure fire at a home in Sarasota on Thanksgiving afternoon.