A Bradenton man awaiting trial on rape and molestation charges was arrested in Indiana this week on a warrant from Manatee County charging him with 49 counts of child pornography. Derrick Faircloth, 39, was arrested in July by Manatee County sheriff's deputies and charged with sexual battery, lewd and lascivious molestation, introduction of obscene materials to a minor and delivering a controlled substance to a minor. ...more

November 6, 2009

The Manatee County Sheriff's Office has charged a Palmetto man with murder in the wake of a fatal home invasion Thursday night. Lamont Yarn, 19, who has no permanent address, was shot in the upper body during the incident at a home on Third Avenue Drive East in Palmetto. ...more

October 3, 2009

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

A Manatee County sheriff's deputy was injured after being struck in in her patrol car by a driver who ran a red light at the intersection of State Road 70 and Lakewood Ranch Boulevard Thursday night, according to a Sheriff's report. ...more

May 22, 2009

A 12-year-old Bradenton girl is recovering after she left home over the weekend and was raped by a man 34 years older than her, the girl's family said at a news conference this afternoon. ...more

March 30, 2009

An Amber Alert has been canceled for a 12-year-old girl Bradenton girl that left her house Saturday. ...more

March 29, 2009

A 2-month-old baby has been reunited with her parents more than 24 hours after a woman impersonating an immigration official took the child from her mother. ...more

March 24, 2009

Police are looking for two people who broke into a Palmetto boarding home early this morning and shot dead a teenager who was in his bedroom. ...more

February 28, 2009

Those close to Sabine Musil-Buehler yearn for justice in her disappearance and likely killing, but they worry they may never get it if the body of the missing Holmes Beach hotelier is not found. ...more

February 14, 2009

The 1996 Dodge Avenger owned by a woman whose body was found Thursday near North Rye Road in Manatee County has been found. ...more

February 10, 2009