Samaritan's Touch Care Center held its first annual fundraising dinner last Saturday night. The primary and specialized care clinic provides free medical care to area families who have no medical insurance of any kind, including Medicare and Medicaid, and whose income is at or below 200 percent of federal poverty guidelines. ...more

March 31, 2009

Authorities are looking for a 31-year-old man they say struck his estranged wife with a pistol, then pushed her out of a moving vehicle Monday afternoon in Pasco County. ...more

March 30, 2009

Rain from an approaching front today dampened wildfires that raged in Saturday's dry, windy conditions and allowed firefighters to contain most of them. ...more

March 29, 2009

Los Angeles County prosecutors have charged a man with stalking "Dancing With the Stars" contestant and Olympic gymnastics champion Shawn Johnson. ...more

March 26, 2009

The school district will take some steps to ease overcrowding at Explorer K-8. ...more

March 25, 2009

A man on probation for DUI-manslaughter is going back to prison after being found drunk behind the wheel of an idling car. ...more

March 25, 2009

Seventy-five-year-old Marcie Rae Lee took a bit out of crime Monday afternoon. Well, out of a criminal at least. The woman was robbed after shopping at a Publix, but not before Lee bit the attacker in the forearm, police said. "Apparently, it was a pretty significant bite," Sgt. George Katjsa said, "because there was blood all over the place and the victim wasn't hurt. It was the bad person who was hurt." ...more

March 24, 2009

Initial police reports of a man shot while driving in unincorporated Manatee County appear to have been incorrect, and it is now believed the man's wounds were self-inflicted, Manatee County deputies say. ...more

March 24, 2009

A 41-year-old motorcyclist was injured Monday afternoon when his motorcycle collided with a car on 54th Avenue South, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. ...more

March 24, 2009

A teen girl was robbed and attacked Monday afternoon, the Manatee County Sheriff's Office said. ...more

March 24, 2009