The Braden River High volleyball team did not have a good grasp of Lennard. ...more

November 5, 2009

Five weeks of spring training have passed relatively smoothly for the Rays, so Saturday probably qualified as the worst day to date. ...more

March 21, 2009

Sarasota's 24-hour cable television news channel will resume operation at 5 p.m. Thursday, station owner and general manager Linda DesMarais said. SNN, launched by the Sarasota Herald-Tribune in 1995, went off the air in January after an attempt to sell the news operation to DesMarais and other investors fell through. A key investor backed out, but DesMarais, her husband, Douglas Barker, and other investors in LDB Media LLC have negotiated the purchase, which should close this week. ...more

February 25, 2009

It had been four years since a Tampa Catholic girls basketball team won a postseason game. The Crusaders ended the drought Thursday night with a 44-36 win over Fort Myers Bishop Verot in the Class 3A-Region 3 quarterfinals. ...more

February 12, 2009

A 40-year-old woman was seriously injured Sunday morning after she refused to pull over for Florida Highway Patrol troopers, lost control of her car and crashed into a hotel, authorities say. ...more

December 15, 2008

A Bradenton woman can finally prove what she's known all along: she is a U.S. citizen. Somebody just found her green card, issued in 1952. ...more

December 5, 2008

Durant could not contain Andre Booker, and the Cougars' playoff hopes took a big hit. ...more

October 25, 2008

Sarasota High's sophomore-filled backfield put on a show on homecoming, accounting for all three touchdowns Friday night in the Sailors' 21-16 victory against mistake-prone Durant in a Class 6A-District 6 game at Ihrig Field. ...more

October 11, 2008

Henry McCloud scored three touchdowns and Tampa Catholic won its first game of the season Friday night, a 31-7 victory over Sarasota Cardinal Mooney (2-1). ...more

September 20, 2008

The Ledger will lay off 36 employees, the publisher at The New York Times Co. newspaper in Lakeland announced Thursday. ...more

August 10, 2008