Manatee Judge Matt Whyte denied Ashley Benefield's bond based on insufficient community ties and a concern the former ...

Manatee Judge Matt Whyte denied Ashley Benefield's bond based on insufficient community ties and a concern the former ballerina could become a flight risk.

Commissioners also recently voted to undo a Comprehensive Plan change made in 2021 that allowed new housing construction east of the county’s Future Development Area Boundary. The rule change led to ...

He also pleaded guilty to a separate set of charges stemming from a jailhouse assault and received another life sentence on charges including aggravated battery with a deadly weapon. McClatchy News ...

Spanning 2,200 acres, with the ability to build up to 5,000 units, construction on Lakewood Ranch Southeast will begin later ...

Sarasota County commissioners give special approval to Lakewood Ranch Southeast, a development of up to 5,000 homes on 4,100 acres east of I-75.

He and his wife, Jennifer, were front and center for Manatee County’s groundbreaking ceremony for the Athletics and Aquatics ...

Prosecutors later dropped the charge against Officer John Antoine, but police Chief Anthony Holloway suspended him without ...

He drove directly in front of a dump truck, causing the truck to strike the left side of the car, troopers said.

Investigators later determined through an autopsy report that a suicide wasn’t possible based on the positioning of the gun.

Jeremiah Bailey, 48, hit four people with his Honda on Sunday, killing one of them, before officers shot him on Interstate ...

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