Nokomis News

First the man barged into a home on Sunset Avenue and unsuccessfully demanded car keys late Saturday, and then he went to nearby Boca Ciega Street and grabbed a set of car keys from a woman in her driveway.

Not that we're keeping score, but it did seem a bit curious that the three recent appointments to the Sarasota County Planning Commission came from the northern portion of the county.

The Cheshire cat-like grins on the faces of faculty, students and staff at four Sarasota County District schools Tuesday were no mystery, thanks to the statewide publication of school rankings by the Florida Department of Education.

A 22-year-old Nokomis man has been accused of robbing a woman in the parking lot of a Sarasota restaurant.

The Sarasota County Sheriff's Office has arrested the man who robbed a woman at gunpoint in the parking lot of the Dutch Heritage restaurant on Bahia Vista Street in Sarasota last week.

HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Fla. - A driver was killed when he lost control of his pickup truck and was thrown from the vehicle south of Ruskin early Monday, the Florida Highway Patrol id.