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

Lowry Park Zoo staff welcomed a baby manatee into the world this week, although the delivery complicates the staff's goal of nursing the baby's injured mother back to health. ...more

May 21, 2009

BRADENTON - A good Samaritan chased and caught a man who had snatched a woman's purse as she was walking to her car in a Wal-Mart parking lot last night, then held the robber down until deputies arrived to arrest him. ...more

May 16, 2009

Manatee Sheriff's deputies say a Tampa man threw fishing weights and other objects at a boat off the South Skyway fishing pier Thursday. ...more

May 8, 2009

A Pahokee man who used stolen front-end loaders to dislodge ATMs at 11 banks in nine counties, including Polk and Manatee, is in the Leon County Jail, authorities said. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement arrested Nasedra Lumpkin, 33, after a 15-month investigation into the string of ATM thefts the agency said netted more than $1 million and caused $575,000 damage to the banks. ...more

May 7, 2009

Police are looking for a man who robbed the Superior Bank, 2207 Manatee Ave. W., on Tuesday. ...more

May 5, 2009

A 52-year-old man authorities suspect in the death of a 42-year-old Bradenton man turned himself in this afternoon. ...more

May 2, 2009

A wheelchair-bound Manatee County man was robbed of cash he just withdrew from a lender by a man who ran up and snatched his satchel off the wheelchair. ...more

April 30, 2009

A manatee whose flipper was discovered entangled in fishing line more than two years ago but has finally been rescued. ...more

April 30, 2009

A four-vehicle crash on Manatee Bay Drive in Holmes Beach has caused a roadblock on the bridge there, the Florida Highway Patrol said. ...more

April 25, 2009