When you've won a state championship as a coach, you know you've made it. And if there's a way to magnify the feeling of "making it," Perry Brown knows that sensation. ...more

January 6, 2010

James Bernard Bain was 19 years old when he was convicted of kidnapping a Lake Wales boy, then raping him on a baseball diamond not far from the child's home. ...more

December 11, 2009

ABC says Charles Gibson will sign off from the "World News" anchor desk on Dec. 18. ...more

December 1, 2009

The board of Gulf Coast Jewish Family Services has picked a former assistant superintendent for the Pasco County school system as interim director following the recent resignation and suicide of its former director, Michael Bernstein. ...more

October 30, 2009

A veteran New York City news anchor flubs a line and an obscene catch phrase goes viral on the Internet. ...more

September 17, 2009

Tickets are available for the "Star-Spangled Spectacular," a concert featuring The Mostly Pops Orchestra with special guests John and Mary K. Wilson. ...more

June 28, 2009

Sarasota police have arrested a suspect in the 30-year-old murder case of community leader John Allaman. ...more

March 30, 2009

Sarasota police detectives say they have solved a murder case more than three decades old. ...more

March 25, 2009

Authorities say a high ranking sheriff's official in Palm Beach County shot and killed an intruder in his home. ...more

March 22, 2009

One local manufacturing company has laid off 75 percent of its work force. ...more

March 13, 2009