A mother and son are dead and a third person is injured after a home invasion in Palmetto late Thursday night. ...more

October 2, 2009

If you dig fireboats, you'll love Tampa Fire Rescue's newest piece of floating fire equipment. The 69-foot, 52-ton Patriot cruised beneath the Sunshine Skyway about noon Monday en route to its new home on Davis Islands. ...more

September 29, 2009

The recent shooting deaths of two teenagers prompted teens and school board officials Saturday to organize a violence awareness rally at Johnson Middle School in Bradenton. ...more

September 20, 2009

A 4-year-old child was found wandering alone on a Bradenton street early this morning. A man saw the child on 66th Avenue West around 2 a.m. and knocked on a few doors to try to find the child's home. He left the child with a woman who called the Manatee County Sheriff's Office. ...more

September 18, 2009

A man in Palmetto accidently shot himself in the hand Saturday night while investigating noises outside his home, the Manatee County Sheriff's Office said. ...more

September 6, 2009

Deputies in Manatee County have found a 65-year-old worker at the Ellenton Outlet Mall who did not show up when her husband arrived to pick her up from work Saturday evening. Marilon Garrett was found at around 9 a.m. on Mendoza Road in good health. ...more

August 23, 2009

Manatee County sheriff's deputies continue to look for two men they say attacked a pizza delivery man late Sunday night by spraying him in the face with a can of aerosol disinfectant and robbing him of sodas and chicken wings. ...more

August 17, 2009

A 32-year-old Wimauma man was killed in a hit-and-run accident in Manatee County early Sunday morning, said the Florida Highway Patrol. ...more

August 16, 2009

Two brothers were shot by the same bullet that discharged from a weapon the 17-year-old brother was cleaning, according to a Manatee Sheriff's report. ...more

August 14, 2009

A handful of Manatee County convenience stores and gas stations have spent the day dubbing surveillance tapes from Monday evening, the night Dr. James Briles came home from work and reported finding his wife, Kathleen, dead. Pulling surveillance video is common in the search for a criminal. Detectives have not released the name or description of the person they are looking for in the videos. The sheriff's office did confirm today that Sheriff Brad Steube has returned from vacation to help handle the case. Steube met with Kathleen Briles's family. ...more

August 5, 2009