The Mobile Disaster Recovery Center in Manatee County will close permanently at 7 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 17. The center will ...

MANATEE COUNTY, Fla. (WWSB) - On November 15th,the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office Traffic Unit conducted a DUI Saturation Patrol. During the heightened patrol, the traffic unit made 5 DUI arrests ...

An inmate at the Sheriff Perry Hall Inmate Detention Facility in Bunnell has been accused of orchestrating a gang-related murder while incarcerated.

Maddox was charged in the March arrest with trafficking in fentanyl (4 grams to 14 grams), possession of oxycodone and possession of cocaine. The fentanyl trafficking charge is a first-degree felony ...

Blood, bruises, and broken bones -- that's what two former detention officers told ABC13 they witnessed during their several-year stint at the jail.

A hit-and-run driver and a North Port man who placed a homeless man in a chokehold to steal his phone have pleaded no contest ...

Manatee County Sheriff’s Office deputies have charged a Bradenton woman with murder in the overdose death of an Ellenton man.

When the officer cuffed one of his father's hands, the man reached for his father's arms and came between him and the officer ...

BRADENTON, Fla. — A Bradenton woman is facing murder charges for her alleged involvement in the fentanyl overdose death of a ...

Sea cow, not pond cow. A juvenile manatee was rescued from a small pond in Florida — a mile and a half from open water — after being stranded there due to the storm surge of Hurricane Helene.

The Charlotte County Sheriff’s Office Aviation Unit provided aerial assistance to other agencies in two rescues during the past week, one of an injured woman and one of a trapped manatee.