As a volunteer with the Suncoast Seabird Sanctuary, Liz Vreeland has rescued songbirds and hawks. She has spent her share of time unraveling fishing line off perplexed pelicans at fishing piers. ...more

January 27, 2009

A pair of white stone eagles guard the front entrance to the East Lake Road home of Sandy and Christine Hoffman. More stone eagles adorn the inside of their home. ...more

November 28, 2008

BRADENTON — The restaurant where Pamela LeRose was grabbed, taken outside and slain opened on Sunday to memorialize her. ...more

June 2, 2008

BRADENTON — A man grabbed a woman from inside a Peaches restaurant on Cortez Road this morning then took her outside to the parking lot before shooting her dead and later killing himself, authorities said. ...more

May 31, 2008