Sarasota News

Sarasota third-graders outpace their peers across Florida in reading and math, according to FCAT results released Friday.

Connecticut-based business Lincoln PK Partners LLC bought the property that currently houses a Bank of America Branch for $4.45 million.

A warrant sweep and undercover narcotics operation near Shenandoah Park netted eight arrests earlier this week, including four people accused of selling cocaine, according to Sarasota Police.

During the next two years, Florida will transition to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts and mathematics.

Crime reduced in 2012 in 10 categories, including: Forcible Rape, Robbery, Aggravated Assault, Burglary, Larceny, Motor Vehicle Theft, Kidnapping, Arson, Simple Assault and Fraud.

The home at 619 Mourning Dove Drive has a wine cellar, bar and three-car garage and overlooks Sarasota Bay.

New information has come about the sinkhole home in Seffner that took the life of Jeff Bush.

In an industry that relies on automation, efficiency and accuracy, it's the analog touches of customer service that make Suncoast Business Technology a success.

For many convicted drug offenders, drug court may seem like a challenge, but it has been a life-changing opportunity for this year's graduates.

If given the attention it deserves, an important new book is certain to make significant contributions to the public discussions of US prison policy.

An exchange of gunfire in a Sarasota neighborhood left bullet holes in a home but no one injured Wednesday night, the Sarasota Police Department reports.

Vendors at the Sarasota Farmers Market have teamed up to sell raffle tickets through Saturday, June 29, to benefit the betterment of the market.

A project to make sidewalks safer throughout Siesta Key Village is slated to light up seven crosswalks before the next tourist season arrives.

Some Hudson Bayou residents say a home on Prospect Street, right, is too big for the property on which it sits and are concerned new homes are changing the dynamic of the historic neighborhood filled with older homes, left.

Forrest Shaw, right, has stayed on at the cafe to teach new owner Chip Beeman some of the "moving parts" at Pastry Art.

In six years, Sarasota could certainly earn a new nickname: Roundabout City. A project to install roundabouts on the bayfront is growing in size and cost.

Man With Loaded Firearm Arrested Near Turkey Creek A self-proclaimed "sovereign citizen" was arrested on school grounds in Plant City, after the suspect, Bruce Charmers Hicks, 46, strolled by Turkey Creek Middle School on May 16 with a "small firearm holstered on his left hip," according to the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office.

"I think that my job as a conductor is threefold: One, I teach the music to myself; two, I teach it the way I see it to the musicians and orchestra; and three, we all together teach it to the audience," Nicholas Lewis says.

Heading out on a road trip this long holiday weekend? Gas up early. Prices at the pump are expected to rise, as the weekend draws near.

A Sarasota woman is charged with defrauding her employer of more than $56,000, authorities said Tuesday.