A Sarasota bank branch manager built up a false trust with an 86-year-old Bradenton man and stole thousands of dollars from him, Manatee County deputies say. ...more

February 4, 2008

Officials agreed to pay $100,000 to settle a lawsuit from a former jail inmate whose back was broken after a confrontation with a corrections officer in 2003. ...more

January 22, 2008

NORTH PORT - As family, friends and the community mourn 21-year-old Denise Amber Lee, authorities are adding to evidence that led them to a shallow grave near Toledo Blade Bouelvard and Interstate 75 on Saturday. ...more

January 21, 2008

All day Friday, to investigators and relatives, the situation made no sense. On their minds was Denise Amber Lee, 21, of North Port, daughter of a law enforcement veteran and a married stay-at-home mom. She liked posting pictures and video on My-Space of her 2005 wedding and her two sons, showing off her infant's hiccups and his 2-year-old brother dancing around in a diaper. ...more

January 19, 2008

NORTH PORT - Investigators have moved the search for a missing mother of two who was kidnapped from her North Port home Thursday to Manatee County. ...more

January 18, 2008

Relatives and friends of a missing North Port mother of two sons are waiting to hear what happened to her after she was abducted from her home Thursday afternoon. ...more

January 18, 2008

NORTH PORT – The man charged with kidnapping a 21-year-old woman on Thursday appears to be a Michigan native with no record of arrests in Florida or elsewhere, public records show. ...more

January 18, 2008

NORTH PORT - North Port police arrested Adam Lucas, 24, on Tuesday after he ran from police and choked a police dog, authorities said. ...more

January 16, 2008

SARASOTA - A home health aide wrote herself $52,689 in checks last year out of an elderly couple's bank account, the Saraosta Sheriff's Office said. ...more

January 14, 2008

A 38-year-old man was arrested Tuesday night after he failed to register as a sex offender, Florida Department of Law Enforcement said. ...more

January 9, 2008