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

Manatee County authorities have found a mother and her two young girls they said may be the victims of child abuse. ...more

October 26, 2008

Five Manatee County Jail inmates were hospitalized today after ingesting a poisonous flower that causes a "recreational high," authorities said. ...more

October 22, 2008

A Bradenton man was caught Sunday with shrimp in his pants at Sweetbay, the Manatee County Sheriff's Office said. ...more

October 19, 2008

BRADENTON - An unidentified man asked to use a woman's phone Saturday night as she was waiting outside for a ride, but the woman grew suspicious. Apparently her instincts were dead-on. ...more

October 19, 2008

A 20-year-old Bradenton man was arrested shortly after midnight for firing shots at a red Jeep, according to a Manatee County Sheriff's Office release. ...more

October 11, 2008

Three good Samaritans who offered rides to two young men were robbed and pistol-whipped for their trouble Friday night. No one was seriously injured and the two attackers remained at large this morning. ...more

October 11, 2008

MANATEE – A Bradenton man suffered two broken arms after he was struck four times with a baseball bat during an argument with his half-brother over a cell charger, the Manatee County Sheriff's Office said. ...more

October 10, 2008

Two teenage girls were arrested Friday by Tarpon Springs police on charges of armed robbery, aggravated assault and carjacking almost a week after the Pasco County Sheriff's Office said they participated in an attack on two people in Holiday. ...more

October 5, 2008

A man suspected in several bank robberies in four counties was in jail today after being arrested by a deputy who learned where he was staying, the Manatee County Sheriff's Office said. ...more

October 4, 2008