Port Charlotte News

SUN PHOTO BY GREG MARTIN, gmartin@sun-herald.com Tammy Sperrazza, left, and Tiffany Meyer of Team Charlotte Crossing Apartments serve a customer at one of 20 booths competing in a chili cook-off Saturday in Laishley Park in Punta Gorda.

Motorists being detoured due to construction on several Charlotte County bridges and roadways will have to put up with detours for just a few more months, said county public works officials.

Walter F. Parenteau, 80, of Punta Gorda, Fla., passed away Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2012, at Peace River Regional Medical Center in Port Charlotte, Fla.

Margaret Hailey Swick, 94, of Port Charlotte, Fla., passed away peacefully Tuesday, Feb.

PORT CHARLOTTE Fla.- The search is on for nearly two-dozen guns, on the streets after a brazen Charlotte County burglary.

Enzymedica Inc. is relocating from Port Charlotte to Venice to expand its laboratory and production facilities.

Hamady N'Diaye was waived by the Wizards on Tuesday after two years with the team and multiple trips to the D League.

PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla.- Charlotte County Sheriff's Major Crimes detectives arrested a North Port man in connection with a drive-by shooting into a Port Charlotte home.

A 68-year-old man died in a crash Tuesday after he lost control of his car and crashed into a utility pole in Port Charlotte.

PHOTO PROVIDED Julie Mathis, executive director of the Charlotte County Chamber of Commerce, smiles for the camera with Mark Martella, chamber president and representative of the Martella Law Firm, and Marcia Cullinan, president-elect for the chamber board and a representative of Encore National Bank.

HERALD PHOTO BY DONNELL BATES As All Family Florist owner and designer Kim Bittner makes a bouquet of roses similar to what a customer could order for Valentine's Day, for with a special touch she puts a rhinestone pin inside the rose.

HERALD PHOTO BY BETSY WILLIAMS Katrina Candales, 13, a member of the Higher Ground Performing Arts Studio "Company" dance troupe, performs one of the celebration dances in the parking lot of the relocated studio Jan.

HERALD PHOTO BY JOAN KEENEY Marge and Bob Fleischmann celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary with friends on Feb.

Charlotte County Sheriff's deputies arrested a Port Charlotte homeless couple Monday following a search of their motor home in Charlotte Harbor for a possible Methamphetamine lab.

Charlotte County Sheriff's Major Crimes detectives are investigating a medical call Sunday evening in Port Charlotte of a 22-month old girl who was unresponsive, not breathing, and had turned blue.

The memorial service for the Rev. Samuel St. John "Sam" Emerick, one of the pioneers of Habitat for Humanity, will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at the town hall at South Port Square, 23023 Westchester Blvd., Port Charlotte.

PORT CHARLOTTE Fla.- Dwight Eaglin was sentenced to death in 2006 for killing prison guard Darla Lathrem and inmate Charles Fuston in an attempted escape.

Nash Hand and Amelia Forsythe, of Port Charlotte, Florida, named him Harvey Dent after the character's Two-Face alter-ego in Batman.

A Florida family was shocked last week when their pet gave birth to a kitten with one of the rarest genetic disorders in the natural world.

They say he died last Wednesday night from complications, just two days old. In a sad ending to this story, two-faced kitten Harvey Dent's owners contacted ABC 7's Josh Taylor Thursday to report that the cat has passed away.