It looks like it’s going to be another hot one on Thursday with highs in the low to mid 90′s not quite as hot as Wednesday’s record breaking temperatures but still above average.
A road project that’s supposed to help alleviate traffic concerns is causing headaches in Palmetto. People who live in that area are not sticking to the designated detour.
The 9-day Sarasota Powerboat Grand Prix Festival kicks off Saturday, June 29 with the 4th Annual Bob Rizi Memorial Gold Classic at the Meadows Country Club.
Miguel Bonilla Rivera was arrested in July 2018 after Bradenton Police received a tip that the 25-year-old had posted an image containing child porn to the Tumblr website.
Experts tell us the summer is always the time we see the most mosquito activity, plus the recent stretch of rain combined with the current dry weather is why we’re seeing so many more mosquitoes. In addition to the daily work mosquito crews are doing, health officials say we all can do our part.
Those concerns even invoked the phrase “serial killer” in reference to several death investigations in Sarasota and Manatee counties in which all of the victims were said to be women.
First Watch, a breakfast, brunch and lunch restaurant that has been open for more than 30 years on the Suncoast, plans to move their corporate headquarters to Manatee County.
In an effort to reduce retail thefts, deputies spent three days focusing their attention on retail corridors in Sarasota and Venice, ultimately arresting 14 people.
The vaping ban, which goes into effect on July 1st, implements part of a constitutional amendment supported by nearly 70 percent of voters last year. The change is similar to a long-standing law that prohibits smoking tobacco in places of employment.
One of the measures will help Republican Attorney General Ashley Moody sue drug makers and pharmacies the state claims contributed to the opioid addiction epidemic.
Around 9pm on Monday, a call came into 911 that 61-year-old Bradley Rundle had fired his gun multiple times inside a home on the 6000 block of McKinley Terrace. The caller stated Rundle was intoxicated and that other family members and children were at home during the call.
The crash happened around 1pm at US301 and 17th Street and involved a Sarasota County Emergency Services fire truck. It’s unknown what caused the crash or if the fire truck had its lights and sirens activated.
On Wednesday, June 19, 2019 around 12:30 in the afternoon Manatee County Sheriff’s Office say they executed a search warrant at a home on the 700 block of Rosemary Circle in Bradenton.
Around 7:45pm, flames broke out on the rear roof of a wood-frame home on the 500 block of 17th Street East. Fire crews arrived on scene within three minutes and found heavy flames.
On June 25, 2019 around 6:10 a.m. deputies say a woman wearing a dark hoodie and reading glasses walked into the Motel 6 located at 660 67th Street Circle E. and demanded money from the clerk, receiving an unknown amount then leaving the scene with unknown means of travel.
Sarasota Police began investigating after receiving a tip that Phillip Stutzman was offering counseling or therapy sessions under the alias “Dr. Phillip Nikao” while claiming to have a Masters in Neuroscience and a Doctorate in Psychology.
New details about Bradenton’s new downtown parking garage! ABC7 reached out to city officials who tell us there are still several things on their to do list before it opens.
Jacob Bryan, the 5-month-old baby of singer Carrie Underwood and former NHL player Mike Fisher, clearly prefers one parent to the other when it comes to singing.
Kassandra Moore (aka Kassandra Thomas) was charged Monday, June 24 with four counts of lewd and lascivious battery and one count of transmission of harmful material to a minor.
Courtney Irby gave her estranged husband's guns to police after he was charged with domestic violence-aggravated battery, only to find herself arrested for theft.
Besides promoting career and technical training, the new law will also require that high schools teach financial literacy and allow students to use computer science courses to help meet math and science graduation requirements.
FHP was called around 1am on Sunday for reports of a driver going north in the southbound lanes. Troopers responded and found the vehicle at milemarker 171 facing north with its hazards on.
The fire was located around the 2100 block of 8th Avenue East around 1:10 a.m. Bradenton Fire Department says when they arrived to the scene, the house was fully engulfed in flames. Luckily, the family managed to evacuate the home unharmed.
Nikolas Wallenda was born 40 years ago in Sarasota. With three TV specials involving Niagara Falls, the Grand Canyon and Chicago, he's not a worldwide celebrity.
Nik Wallenda, his sister Lijana and others were practicing an eight-person pyramid for an upcoming show when suddenly performers lost their balance and tumbled more than 30-feet to the ground.
Here on the Suncoast we have a lot of high wire heroes and one of our most noted individuals is Nik Wallenda. As Wallenda and his sister walk the high wire on Sunday, June 23 at 8 p.m. over Times Square in New York City he still remembers the tragic fall of 2017.
In this week’s Manatee County Commission Meeting, developers pitched plans for a new luxury apartment complex in Ellenton just north of the Prime Outlet Mall.
Florida health care regulators now say that a much-promised website to help residents shop for health care will have specific information about what facilities charge by this fall.
Congressman Vern Buchanan announced on Friday that the Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport was given $3.6 million dollar by the Federal Aviation Authority for a drainage and water management system improvement project.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed an almost $91 billion budget that provides hundreds of millions of dollars for protecting water resources and offers almost $3 billion in hurricane recovery and preparedness efforts.
