A 20-year-old man wanted on warrants for violating probation struggled with deputies as he was arrested Monday night and was stunned a total of four times — twice with pepper spray and twice with a Taser, the Manatee County Sheriff's Office said. ...more

November 17, 2008

A fire Sunday night destroyed part of a motel in Manatee County that is co-owned by a woman who disappeared two weeks ago. ...more

November 17, 2008

Manatee deputies arrested a Bradenton man they say killed a man whose body was found in a Palmetto palm tree farm in October. ...more

November 16, 2008

Two armed intruders held a couple at gunpoint and made off with cash early this morning. No shots were fired and no one was injured in the home invasion. ...more

November 14, 2008

Friends and relatives of the co-owner of a small Holmes Beach motel fear the worst about her disappearance. ...more

November 10, 2008

Manatee County sheriff's deputies are looking for a man they say used a lit road flare to threaten and rob a convenience store clerk. ...more

November 3, 2008

Darrell Barchette came to Manatee Memorial Hospital on Saturday night without his left ear. Barchette, 51, of Ruskin, was drunk and uncooperative with investigators, who determined his ear had been removed suspiciously, Manatee County deputies say. But an intoxicated witness said Barchette and another man, Kevin Culbertson, 45, of Bradenton, had fought at a party at Culbertson's home. ...more

November 3, 2008

BRADENTON - A 28-year-old Bradenton woman was stabbed early today during a fight with a man who claimed she stole $100 from him, according to the Manatee County Sheriff's Office. ...more

November 1, 2008

BRADENTON A woman and four children escaped injury early today when someone fired a gun into her house at 5629 E. 12th St., the Manatee County Sheriff's Office reports. ...more

November 1, 2008

Manatee County sheriff's detectives are trying to identify a man whose body was found this afternoon at a palm tree farm in Palmetto. ...more

October 27, 2008