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

Officials have found the body of what they believe is the 35-year-old man who fell off a small pleasure boat this evening near the Port of Manatee, northeast of the Sunshine Skyway Bridge. ...more

October 28, 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 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

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 28-year-old man has been charged in the shooting death of a pregnant Bradenton teen Sunday. ...more

July 18, 2009