Rotonda West News

What brought you to Boca Grande: "I found out about the job from a previous employer.

Charlotte County Sheriff's Narcotics detectives raided a Rotonda West home at 7:45 a.m. Wednesday and arrested three people on 17 charges.

They say time flies when you are having fun. But for Kelly and Nick Trullinger, time seems to have launched them like a rocket.

The transactions were from his Boundary Boulevard apartment in Rotonda West. The Charlotte County Sheriff's Warrant Squad arrested Phillip Richard Khork, 26, of 581 Michigan Ave., Grove City, for selling marijuana to undercover narcotics agent on March 24 and 27.

Parents all over America give their children the same advice when they reach driving age: * Wear your seat belt.

Vincent Silio Orlando, 23, of Rotonda West, was charged Tuesday afternoon with aggravated child abuse, the Charlotte County Sheriffa s Office reports.

SARASOTA a ' A former North Port High School JROTC instructor charged last year with sending sexually suggestive text messages to a 16-year-old female student and receiving nude photos of the teen is set to stand trial Tuesday.

A man who drove his car off the road for unknown reasons Friday has died. 22-year-old Jailyn Heyman of Rotonda West was driving northbound on Placida Road just after 11am Friday when his car veered across the southbound lanes and onto the west shoulder of the road near Lemon Bay Road.

A one-car crash that witnesses described as "horrific" claimed the life of a young woman late Friday morning when the car she was driving hit a sign and then a tree near the Fifth Third Bank on Placida Road.

Approximately 16,950 students from around the district returned to classrooms for the kick-off of the 2009-2010 Charlotte County school year Monday.

Photo by QUENTIN ROUX Staff Richard Morris of TuffDock, which provides durable and eco-friendly alternatives to wood pilings - PVC pilings which are corrosion and chemical resistant.

Location: ROTONDA WEST, FLA. WE GOT OUR NEW YORKIE PUPPY ON AUGUST 18th 2008, AND HURRICANE FAY WAS DUE HERE THE NEXT DAY.

A Rotonda West man was charged Sunday with stealing $6,000 in guns, jewelry and other items from an unoccupied home and then escaping on a golf cart.

The Charlotte County Sheriff's Office is investigating a rash of burglaries in the Rotonda area that all appear to be related.

Sherer Miller watched two small boys taking turns peering into a large telescope aimed at the moon.

Brian Kelly is a very busy man these days. His ship, the Maersk Tennessee, has entered what merchant mariners call "the gauntlet" as it prepares to make port in Somalia.

CHARLOTTE COUNTY, Fla. - Eleven arrests were made in Charlotte County over the weekend, all charged with DUI.