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

A 23-year-old woman died in a hospital Saturday night from injuries she received in a single-car wreck early that morning on Interstate 75 in Sarasota County. ...more

December 14, 2008

A tractor-trailer collided with a truck and a street sweeper, igniting the big rig, the Florida Highway Patrol said. ...more

May 7, 2008

Firefighters on Thursday finally doused the last flames of a deadly sugar refinery blast, a week after the refinery ignited. ...more

February 15, 2008

Crews on Saturday found another body in the remnants of a sugar refinery plant devastated late Thursday by an explosion and fire, raising the death toll to five, with three others still missing, officials said. ...more

February 10, 2008

SARASOTA — The way construction workers controlled traffic played a role in a multi-car wreck that killed two people on Interstate 75 early this morning, investigators said. ...more

October 1, 2007

Despite injuries to John Graziano's frontal lobes and kidneys, his father, Edward Graziano, said there is hope. ...more

September 10, 2007

ST. PETERSBURG - Despite injuries to John Graziano's frontal lobes and kidneys, his father, Edward Graziano, said there is hope. ...more

September 9, 2007