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FRANKFORT, Ky. - A Kentucky census worker and former Southwest Florida Boy Scout leader found naked, bound with duct tape and hanging from a tree with "fed" scrawled on his chest killed himself but staged his death to make it look like a homicide, authorities said Tuesday.

Published: Friday, November 20, 2009 at 1:00 a.m. Last Modified: Thursday, November 19, 2009 at 9:32 p.m. NORTH PORT - Christine Marfut jokes that she will barricade herself inside her house, or maybe demolish it after a judge sets the Bumford Avenue home's sale date today.

Charlotte County Sheriff's Office received a report at 11:36 a.m. Friday of a small plane down in a wooded area in Port Charlotte near Midway Boulevard and Lauzon Avenue.

PUNTA GORDA a ' George Wayne Lafferty, 62, has been released from Lee Memorial Hospital after being shot by Charlotte County Sheriff's deputies earlier this month.

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Charlotte County Sheriff's detectives arrested five people for alleged robbery of a 45-year-old woman at the CVS store, at the intersection of U.S. 41 and Midway Boulevard in Port Charlotte.

Published: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 at 11:32 a.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 at 11:32 a.m. A Punta Gorda man has been charged with DUI manslaughter in connection with a Sept.

FORT MYERS, Fla. Two of Charlotte County's top prep baseball stars will play their college careers together at Florida Gulf Coast University.

A Port Charlotte man was arrested Sunday after he reportedly injured his ex-wife's 5-year-old son during an argument last month.

CHARLOTTE COUNTY: Detectives arrested four Port Charlotte men who allegedly sold Roxicodone pills to undercover detectives.

Charlotte County Sheriff's Major Crimes Unit detectives released the name of the man who received an abdominal stab wound at 1:47 a.m. Thursday at Boomers Bar in Port Charlotte.

Charlotte County Sheriff's Narcotics Unit detectives raided a Port Charlotte home Tuesday in the 4000 block of Conway Boulevard and arrested five people including Guy Douglas Owens, 18; Vickie Ewing Nelson, 44; Robert Raymond Ewing, 18; and 21-year-old Jason Andrew Pringle.

A Charlotte County home sustained heavy smoke damage early Monday, after a fire broke out in the garage.

Charlotte County Sheriffa s Major Crimes Unit detectives are investigating an incident in Port Charlotte that involved deputies shooting a man who pointed a shotgun and a revolver at them.

ROCHESTER -- Tom Johnson died Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009, in Florida, after a short battle with cancer.

Charlotte County Sheriff's Deputies open fire on a man they say would not drop his guns.

Groups of homeless people may not own properties on Sagamore and Cordoba Avenues in Port Charlotte, but neighbors say they sure act like they do.

The philosophy of self-reliance seems to have always been a curiously American trait and one that evidently still strongly exists in the cultural gene pool, despite what some would argue have been energetic efforts by do-gooder social engineers to wipe it out.

Two men were arrested Tuesday in connection with the murder of a Port Charlotte man who was found dead in his home Sunday.

Authorities are searching an eight acre area of Dunkin Road and Highway 17 in Port Charlotte for a Hollywood, FL girl who went missing in 1999.