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The first Planned Parenthood health center has opened in Manatee County thanks in part to three grants totaling more than $1.3 million.

The first Planned Parenthood health center has opened in Manatee County thanks in part to three grants totaling more than $1.3 million.

Published: Friday, July 18, 2008 at 4:30 a.m. Last Modified: Friday, July 18, 2008 at 12:10 a.m. A Clearwater minister will bring his recipe for relieving stress to a Bradenton church.

There is no doubt a school zone is on State Road 70 East near Braden River elementary and middle schools, but drive slowly and scan the road to find where it starts and ends.

Authorities arrested two local men Tuesday night on charges of attempted homicide for a Monday evening shooting of a man at a downtown nightclub.

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Teaching at Tillman Elementary School is one of the toughest assignments in Manatee County.

Palmetto Police officials continue to be tight-lipped about the shooting death of Jose Miguel Rosales-Reyes. Rosales-Reyes, 22, died in his front yard Saturday morning at about 5 a.m. in a hail of gunfire that ...

People are stretching their grocery money by doing volunteer work for a couple of hours a month.

Subprime lenders targeted Manatee County blacks, Hispanics and minority neighborhoods during the housing boom with high-cost loans that are now helping fuel the record rise in foreclosures, federal data shows.

The Herald-Tribune is accepting entries for its online summer camp listings. To enter, go to www.heraldtribune.com/summercampsform . Listings will be accepted until Friday. via HeraldTribune.com

“It's exciting to see what the kids do.”

For Sawyer Colson, Keegan Wong and Patric Damiens, the hardest thing about doing their project for TECHcite, a technology fair and competition held at Braden River High School Thursday was making the clay ... via Bradenton Herald

“It's an accumulation of three or four years not having mosquitoes”

Mosquitoes are on the attack By Claude Lewis Spring of 2007 in Levy County was a little scary, as drought brought wildfires that turned the skies an eerie black. via Chiefland Citizen

“Whenever we have an animal come in for rehabilitation and be sent back out, it's a day for celebration”

A rehabilitated manatee with a missing flipper, named "Sharpie," has returned to the wild in the Florida Keys. via WJXX

Democrat Darryl Rouson was sworn in Wednesday as the newest member of the House, a day after being elected to represent a Tampa Bay-area district. via HeraldTribune.com

“They're taking resources away from the kids who really need it”

Eleven Volusia schools will lose a total of $1 million in federal funding used to improve instruction at high-poverty schools as officials prepare for falling revenue and tighter restrictions under the No Child ... via The News-Journal

Tarpon fishing is sweaty work. The fish don't show up until those balmy mornings in May when the night temperature seems to be the same as the day, and when the humidity wets your shirt before the boat even ... via Tampa Bay Online

There is a huge citizen-driven effort to obtain Three Sisters Springs for public ownership. via Citrus County Chronicle

The annual aerial head count of Florida's manatees has been canceled. State wildlife officials say they're working on a new method of counting the slow-moving marine mammals that's more accurate. via The Orlando Sentinel