Bradenton News

The Elks national free throw competition for boys and girls 8 to 13 begins at three Bradenton gyms beginning next week.

Manatee County Utilities Department would like to advise its reclaimed water users that low pressure will be experienced over the next few days due to equipment failure at the Southwest Water Reclamation Facility.

Authorities are looking for a man who used a stolen credit card at a Bradenton Wal-Mart. The suspect used a credit card listed among property stolen in a recent vehicle burglary.

Police are looking for a 24-year-old man they intenionally rammed his car into another vehicle, causing a chain reaction that also damaged a police cruiser, according to the Bradenton Police Department.

Regulators have ordered Horizon Bank to raise more capital and trim its level of problem loans.

The City Council voted todayto allow the demolition of the architecturally distinctive Bradenton Revival Temple in downtown Bradenton.

Police have arrested a man officers say robbed a Bradenton woman at gunpoint, then fired a shot at her when she gave chase, according to Bradenton police reports.

A year ago a comprehensive study of health care in Manatee County came to the expected conclusion that a crisis exists here.

Bradenton police officers say they had to stun a man with a Taser three times in a hospital emergency room lobby after he refused to go quietly when informed he was under arrest.

Lashay Cooper, 21, of Bradenton, was being held in lieu of $50,000 bail in the Pinellas County Jail on Sunday facing one count of grand theft auto.

A man was left with three broken ribs, a collapsed lung and a large cut on his head requiring multiple staples after he was attacked in Aloha Estates Mobile Home Park, according to a Manatee County Sheriff's Office arrest report.

Each year, residents and visitors line up to view boats as they glide past the downtown area in Bradenton.

Bradenton resident Rae Sprow says she is standing by her son. Sprow talked to the Bradenton Herald hours after her son, Richard Heene, pleaded guilty Friday to a felony charge resulting from a balloon chase that galvanized a global television audience.

A teenage mom whose 11-month-old son died after being left unattended in a bathtub has been charged with manslaughter, the Manatee County Sheriff's Office said today.

A young mother was arrested today on charges of manslaughter after her 11-month-old son drowned in a bathtub, according to Manatee County Sheriff's Office.

At least 325 supporters turned out in their black-tie finest Saturday evening for Bradenton's premier social event, Snooty's Gala.

A Manatee County house goes up in flames overnight. On Wednesday around 2:43am, a fire was reported by the occupants of 1108 64th Street NW Bradenton.

Barbara Fitch heard pops in the middle of the night that woke her, and she immediately smelled smoke, prompting her to call 911.

As the nation marks American Diabetes Month, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius released a new report today, Preventing and Treating Diabetes: Health Insurance Reform and Diabetes in America.

At least two guns and other electronics were stolen during a rash of vehicle burglaries in Manatee overnight, according to a Manatee County Sheriff's Office report.