North Port News

City Commission Chairman David Garofalo said Wednesday he would intervene to block the city from taking the homes of a woman who owes large municipal fines.

A 19-year-old North Port High School student was arrested Tuesday after he reportedly robbed another teenager at gunpoint last weekend.

Citing a move in a different direction, North Port High dismissed football coach Sascha Hyer on Monday.

A woman was fatally shot in the parking lot of a Sarasota County courthouse annex, and the man who shot her was reportedly shot by police later at a North Port home.

A woman was shot dead in the parking lot of the R.L. Anderson Administration Center in Venice Monday afternoon.

As North Port asked a judge Friday for a default ruling and sale date for Christine Marfut's Bumford Avenue home, the 54-year-old homeowner was sitting two floors below, waiting in front of the wrong courtroom.

North Port Police are looking for a driver that hit a bicyclist Thursday. The crash happened near the intersection of East Price Boulevard and Raintree Boulevard around 7:15 pm.

A jury acquitted a school bus driver Thursday of a charge that he molested a girl who rode on his bus.

CHARLOTTE COUNTY: Lawmakers announced a new bill Monday that would require all 9-1-1 dispatchers throughout the state to undergo mandatory training once every two years.

State Representative Ken Roberson filed a House Bill, known as the 911 Bill, a public safety bill that requires 911 call takers and dispatchers to take a Public Safety Telecommunications Training Program, pass an examiniation administered by the Department of Health which measures the competency and proficiency in public saftey telecommunications ...

The Gulf County Sheriff's Office will be conducting vehicle safety checkpoints and DUI check points during the month of November 2009.

In October, Nathan Lee the husband of murdered North Port mom Denise Amber Lee, filed a wrongful death suit against the Charlotte County Sheriff's Office and the Sheriff.

Published: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 at 1:00 a.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 at 12:14 a.m. When my twin daughters were very little, they once slipped out from my wife's careful watch, unlocked the front door and ended up across the street, where we found them, naked and giggling, on a neighbor's porch.

NORTH PORT a ' Police arrested a North Port man who allegedly sexually battered an 18-year-old passed out at his house Tuesday.

NORTH PORT a ' The North Port Lions Club will celebrate its 40th anniversary Nov.

A 66-year-old woman faces a felony charge after what police described as a drunken rampage in which she screamed at neighbors and punched one officer in the face Monday night.

Florida Baptist State Convention president John Cross will be nominated for a second term, Brandon minister Bob Anderson told Florida Baptist Witness Nov.

A man caught by police having sex with a woman in a parked car wound up in jail after he drove away, despite having a suspended license.

But that's what Lee County Sheriff's officials said a North Port woman did Friday.

A North Port woman is facing multiple forgery-related charges after officials say she claimed to be a deputy and forged Lee County Sheriff Mike Scott's signature to prove proof of employment.