Bradenton News

The 25th annual Manatee Rare Fruit Council's Rare Fruit Tree Sale was once again a huge hit Sunday with residents and visitors alike.

Gov. Rick Scott on Monday signed off a new state budget that includes funding for two projects seen as key to efforts to build Manatee County's sports industry.

The Rev. Clarence Honor of Payne Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Sarasota said he thinks of his role as a speaker at a revival much like a 1950s gasoline station attendant committed to check tire pressure and oil, clean the windshield and side windows and fill up the gas tank.

Authorities are investigating after a Bradenton woman reported finding human bones scattered outside a Dumpster at an apartment complex.

The National Weather Service is calling for mostly sunny skies, with a high near 88 and east-southeasterly winds of 5 to 7 mph becoming calm.

A 19-year-old high school student has been arrested after authorities say she bit her boyfriend's penis when he refused to have sex with her.

Thomas Lamar was stabbed in the chest during an argument around 5 p.m. by a 17-year-old male.

For most of Saturday night's 75-lap Super Late Model feature at Full Throttle Speedway, Sarasota's Anthony Campi looked like he would cruise to an easy victory.

From music to cooking, our Local Voices Bloggers fill us in on interesting, important and humorous parts of life in Bradenton.

The Florida Highway Patrol will team with law enforcement agencies in unincorporated Manatee County, Anna Maria Island, Longboat Key, Bradenton, Sarasota and Palmetto to look for seat belt violations.

Manatee County voters will decide two issues on the June 18 referendum. While the half-cent sales tax increase to pay for indigent health care has ignited heated debate, the other item on the ballot has been flying under the public's radar.

An ambulance manufacturing plant in Bradenton that laid off 129 employees qualified for more than $2 million in incentives since 2007.

2. Wawa Plans to Open in Bradenton; Are You Excited? Developers have chosen a site and cleared an early hurdle in developing Bradenton's first Wawa gas station and convenience store.

The Sarasota Bay Estuary Program is reminding residents not to use fertilizer products containing nitrogen and phosphorus from June 1 through Sept.

If you've been paying attention to what's going on in Bradenton, you know what the biggest arts development in recent months has been.

Scott on Friday signed a bill that creates a tax break for the state's manufacturers.

The state's unemployment numbers fell to 7.2 percent in April, still below the national average, as more people are finding work in the Sunshine State.

According to a news release, a 53-year old man was approached at about 5 p.m. by another man who asked him to buy medication for his daughter.

Two teenagers have been arrested and charged in a vicious attack that left another teen boy unconscious last week on Siesta Beach, authorities said Thursday.

The House Ways and Means Committee, according to U.S. Rep. Vern Buchanan, R-Sarasota, will continue to pursue what went wrong at the Internal Revenue Service.