A 16-year-old Bradenton boy is expected to survive after being shot Friday night.

Sarasota's Sheriff says 6% of the criminal element accounts for 60% of the crime in his community.  He's trying targeted policing to stop the troubling trend.

A Holmes Beach couple is fighting with city officials to save their giant tree house.  The tree house located at Angelino's Sea Lodge is becoming quite the

The Manatee County Sheriff's Office seized more than 5,500 packages of synthetic marijuana from two Shell stations on 14th St. S. after executing search

A Manatee County couple is suing the Sheriff’s Office in an effort to get their seized pot plants back.  Deputies raided Bob and Cathy Jordan’s home and seized

Police in Sarasota are honoring a 10-year-old boy for saving a little girl from drowning in an apartment complex swimming pool.

An endowment of $2.7 million is the largest ever given to the Manatee County Foundation.  And it's helping people through helping animals.

Lacking reserves and trying to recover from a $3.4 million deficit in the 2012-'13 budget, Manatee's school district has cut costs by canceling orders and

Customers of a Bank of America in Bradenton showed up Monday afternoon to locked doors after a man robbed the branch with a large knife.

Sarasota Police said they have made one of their largest pot busts to date.

Deputies in Manatee County are asking anyone who may have witnessed two men harassing a 13-year-old girl as she walked down a street to come forward.

Two boaters from Bradenton were rescued in Gulf of Mexico waters off Cedar Key after reporting engine trouble and requesting Coast Guard assistance on

An 8-month-old baby along with two women were asleep when three armed, masked men broke into their Bradenton home Saturday morning, Manatee County Sheriff's

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On Wednesday, the Manatee County Sheriff's Office announced an undercover operation they have been working on for months, Operation Meal Ticket II.  Operation