A man led deputies on a winding chase this morning through a gated community and a golf course before deputies forced his Jeep into a row of shrubs, the Sarasota County Sheriff's Office said. ...more

June 26, 2010

They drank beer and shots, brazenly hit on waitresses, snapped illicit cell phone pictures of themselves in the bathroom and, at the end of a raucous night, staggered to their cars and drove off. ...more

June 26, 2010

The Florida Highway Patrol has identified the pedestrian who was struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver Thursday on Bee Ridge Road at Asbury Place in Sarasota. ...more

February 21, 2009

A Sarasota woman crossing a street this morning became the victim of a fatal hit-and-run, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. ...more

February 19, 2009

A sudden and fierce windstorm hit the Centergate Plaza on Bee Ridge Road about 3 p.m. Tuesday and "started turning everything sideways," one witness said. ...more

January 13, 2009

BANKRUPTCIES Middle District of Florida Tampa Division CHAPTER 7 ...more

November 29, 2008

Sarasota County deputies are looking for a name to go with faces on surveillance camera images from a fundraiser Saturday night at Evie's on the Green, 4735 Bee Ridge Road. ...more

November 17, 2008

The lockdown of five Sarasota schools was lifted at 4:30 p.m. today after police arrested two armed men they say entered a home on Victoria Avenue and attacked a person inside. ...more

September 16, 2008

SARASOTA COUNTY - The Sheriff's Office arrested a man on charges he used a knife to try to rob an 83-year-old woman Wednesday afternoon, only to flee when she fought back and started screaming. "God bless him; I hope they treat him good," Agnes Lynn said of her attacker. ...more

September 12, 2008

SARASOTA COUNTY — A firefighter was treated at a hospital after a sheriff's deputy accidentally stunned him with a Taser at a fire station. ...more

June 25, 2008