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Fellowship Church of Englewood will be hosting a Jubilee Worship Celebration & Cookout on Sun, May 27.

State Representative Doug Holder was first elected to former House District 70 in 2006, an office he has held for six years.

It was no sooner than Ricky Bob Burrows, the well-meaning bus boy, yelled the phrase "We're out of clams!" that he felt footprints on his innocent, young face.

On Fri, April 27 the members of the Lemon Bay Garden Club joined with the Friends of the Library to celebrate Arbor Day at the Elsie Quirk Library with a tree planting in the new "Golden Garden." This Reading Garden is being built to memorialize the 50th Anniversary of the Library and is a gift from the Friends of the Library, according to Friends' ... (more)

ENGLEWOOD, Fla.- A total of 148 grams of pre-packaged marijuana were seized from an Englewood home on Monday, along with multiple smoking pipes, and a digital scale.

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The Sarasota County Sheriff's Office Drug Task Force, which includes members of the Venice and North Port police departments, arrested four people in connection with the illegal sale of prescription pills outside a Venice pharmacy Monday afternoon.

SUN PHOTO BY SUE ERWIN, serwin@sun-herald.com Members of the Rotonda West VFW Ladies Auxiliary invited volunteers to spend some time replacing worn flags on veterans' graves at the Lemon Bay Historical Cemetery Saturday morning.

"Love to love you, baby." Those were the first words we heard Donna Summer croon back in 1976.A Summer passed away from lung cancer on Thursday.A The singer, 63, was living in Englewood, Florida with her husband, Bruce Sudano.

NORTH PORT, Fla.- The Sarasota County Sheriff's Office has arrested 25-year-old Justin Reber, of 2523 Belvedere Street in North Port, for strangling a boy at his church with a cord.

Police say they put an Atlanta-area elementary school on lockdown after a 12-year-old child was shot near the campus.

Court records show a Miami college student intends to plead guilty to making threatening posts against President Barack Obama on Facebook.

Police say they put an Atlanta-area elementary school on lockdown after a 12-year-old child was shot near the campus.

TMZ reports the singer died in Florida. She had not made her cancer public. Friends who had seen her in recent weeks say she "didn't seem too bad." Her family released a statement Thursday saying Summer died and that they "are at peace celebrating her extraordinary life and her continue legacy.

Police say they put an Atlanta-area elementary school on lockdown after a 12-year-old child was shot near the campus.

Disco queen Donna Summer, whose pulsing anthems such as "Last Dance," "Love to Love You Baby" and "Bad Girls" became the soundtrack for a glittery age of sex, drugs, dance and flashy clothes, has died at her Englewood home on North Manasota Key Road, her family confirmed Thursday.

Charlotte County Sheriff's Economic Crimes Unit detectives arrested two Naples residents for trafficking in counterfeit credit cards and trying to use them at Walmart in Englewood.

Family members say they're stunned after finding out Animal Control named a neighbor as the person that could be responsible for killing their dog and stuffing it into a garbage bag.

By the time Wanda Lou Wynette had showered all the oatmeal out of her hair and put on fresh clothes, The Dizzy Whizz diner was packed with customers.

DESOTO COUNTY, Fla.- Arcadia-based Canine Castaways has taken in 14 of the 263 dogs that were rescued from a home in Venice.